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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 30 October 202641 issues · 98 checks

This review found 41 issues worth fixing on dar-engineering.com, 11 of them high impact, across 98 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 28.0 MB in 81 requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.9 s2.6 sMay 9Oct 242.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.6 s
May 16, 20262.6 s
May 23, 20262.6 s
May 30, 20262.7 s
Jun 6, 20262.8 s
Jun 13, 20262.7 s
Jun 20, 20262.7 s
Jun 27, 20262.7 s
Jul 4, 20262.6 s
Jul 11, 20262.7 s
Jul 18, 20262.7 s
Jul 25, 20262.8 s
Aug 1, 20262.9 s
Aug 8, 20262.9 s
Aug 15, 20262.9 s
Aug 22, 20262.9 s
Aug 29, 20262.8 s
Sep 5, 20262.7 s
Sep 12, 20262.7 s
Sep 19, 20262.7 s
Sep 26, 20262.8 s
Oct 3, 20262.7 s
Oct 10, 20262.8 s
Oct 17, 20262.8 s
Oct 24, 20262.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
100 ms90 msMay 9Oct 2494 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 202694 ms
May 16, 202696 ms
May 23, 202695 ms
May 30, 202695 ms
Jun 6, 202698 ms
Jun 13, 202691 ms
Jun 20, 202693 ms
Jun 27, 202694 ms
Jul 4, 202694 ms
Jul 11, 202695 ms
Jul 18, 202696 ms
Jul 25, 202694 ms
Aug 1, 202692 ms
Aug 8, 202693 ms
Aug 15, 202693 ms
Aug 22, 202693 ms
Aug 29, 202694 ms
Sep 5, 202696 ms
Sep 12, 202699 ms
Sep 19, 202695 ms
Sep 26, 202699 ms
Oct 3, 202697 ms
Oct 10, 202694 ms
Oct 17, 202696 ms
Oct 24, 202694 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of dar-engineering.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. dar-engineering.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  2. dar-engineering.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  3. dar-engineering.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  4. dar-engineering.com at 4.3 s4.3 s
  5. dar-engineering.com at 5.4 s5.4 s
  6. dar-engineering.com at 6.5 s6.5 s
  7. dar-engineering.com at 7.6 s7.6 s
  8. dar-engineering.com at 8.7 s8.7 s

dar-engineering.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

6 to fix88
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.3 s

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    250 ms · 27.9 MB

    56 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (27.9 MB).

  • Improve image delivery

    18.4 MB

    18 images could be 18.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (JSDelivr CDN, Cloudflare CDN and Google Fonts and others), adding 27.9 MB and 74 ms of main-thread time.

  • Azure Web Services adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    Azure Web Services costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 27.8 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Mobile performance score: 88

    88/100

    Your mobile performance score is 88. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    26 KiB

    About 26 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Minify CSS

    6 KiB

    6 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 0.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 166 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user FCP: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 3.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Speed Index: 11.5 s

    11.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.5 s

    3.5 s

    Real visitors wait 3.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    0%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 94 ms to 94 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 2.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 101 ms

    101 ms

    Real visitors wait 101 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    Your largest element renders in 2.0 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “DAR Engineering is a leading multidisciplinary consultancy …”.

  • Time to Interactive: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The page is fully interactive after 2.0 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 28.0 MB in 81 requests

    28.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 28.0 MB in 81 requests on a phone: images 27.9 MB (49), stylesheets 54 KiB (5) and scripts 40 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 17 images over 500 KB

    17 images weigh 26.0 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 18 images far larger than shown

    14.9 MB

    18 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Alfanar Manufacturing Complex and Administration Building (1 at 1,920 px wide, shown at 334 px. Resized copies would save about 14.9 MB.

  • 21 images in older formats

    21 images (20.1 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 10 images below the first screen load straight away

    10 images further down the page (11.4 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 7.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    7.94 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 7.94 g of CO₂e: 953.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8692
  • 4 tap targets too small

    4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

    Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 3 links without text

    3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h3 → h5 and h4 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 73 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 43 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

8 to fixGoogle 9168
  • Title is short (8 characters)

    Your title is only 8 characters: “DAR Home”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is short (8 characters)

    Your meta description is only 8 characters: “DAR Home”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • 23 links with vague text

    23 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://www.dar-engineering.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • No robots.txt

    There is no robots.txt at dar-engineering.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 51 internal links, 15 external

    The homepage links to 51 pages on dar-engineering.com and 15 external pages.

1 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Global reach. Local impact.”.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

2 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (507 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

4 to fix68
  • 1 page without a title

    /en/about-us has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 2 pages share a title

    /en and /en/Home all use the title “DAR Home”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 1 page without a meta description

    /en/about-us has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 13 pages without an H1

    /en/about-us, /en/company-overview, /en/milestones, /en/our-values, /en/our-work and /en/media-center and 7 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    /en/contact-us and /ar/Home have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 38 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 12 small tap targets

    12 of 18 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix90
  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HTTP/1.1 only

    The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 30 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

4 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (dar-engineering.com).

  • Valid certificate (72 days left)

    The certificate from DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 verifies for dar-engineering.com and is valid for another 72 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • All 51 links work

    All 51 links checked from your homepage (39 internal, 12 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    dar-engineering.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

  • DNSSEC is off

    dar-engineering.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 27 years old

    27 years

    dar-engineering.com was registered in Jul 1999 through eNom, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jul 2027

    dar-engineering.com is registered until Jul 2027.

Content and conversion

3 to fix79
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • Only about 223 words

    The homepage has only about 223 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “LEARN MORE”.

  • 23 calls to action

    The homepage has 23 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Learn more” and “Learn More”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 8 email links.

Email authentication

100
  • Email authentication score: 100/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf-003edb02.pphosted.com -all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector2” and “k2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 5 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

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