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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202637 issues · 101 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on firststepsindia.com, 16 of them high impact, across 101 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking 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
3.5 s2.6 sJul 18Sep 262.7 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Jul 18, 20262.7 s
Aug 1, 20262.7 s
Aug 8, 20262.8 s
Aug 15, 20263.0 s
Aug 29, 20263.3 s
Sep 5, 20263.4 s
Sep 12, 20263.2 s
Sep 19, 20263.0 s
Sep 26, 20262.7 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
112 ms86 msAug 8Sep 2689 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Aug 8, 202695 ms
Aug 15, 202696 ms
Sep 5, 2026109 ms
Sep 12, 2026102 ms
Sep 19, 202695 ms
Sep 26, 202689 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 firststepsindia.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. firststepsindia.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. firststepsindia.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. firststepsindia.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. firststepsindia.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. firststepsindia.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. firststepsindia.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. firststepsindia.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  8. firststepsindia.com at 3.1 s3.1 s

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

Speed

4 to fix37
  • Render-blocking requests

    2.5 s

    26 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.5 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 37

    37/100

    Your mobile performance score is 37. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    880 ms · 127 KiB

    About 127 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 880 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 3.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Font display

    250 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 250 ms).

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 231 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    50 ms · 74 KiB

    9 images could be 74 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    100 ms · 18 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 18 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 100 ms faster on a phone.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (cdn-cookieyes.com, Cloudflare and Google Fonts), adding 212 KiB and 55 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    8 KiB

    4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (8 KiB).

  • 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

10 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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 17.0 s

    17.0 s

    Your largest element takes 17.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “First Steps Baby Wear Pvt. Ltd. was established in 2002, fo…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 18.0 s

    18.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 11.9 s

    11.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.8 s

    3.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.361

    0.361

    The layout shifts by 0.361 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.1 s

    3.1 s

    Real visitors wait 3.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors wait 1.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 206 ms

    206 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 206 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 89 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 2.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 99 ms

    99 ms

    Real visitors wait 99 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.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 4.6 MB in 109 requests

    4.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.6 MB in 109 requests on a phone: images 4.0 MB (33), scripts 263 KiB (35) and stylesheets 193 KiB (27). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (192 KiB) 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.

  • 6 images below the first screen load straight away

    6 images further down the page (287 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.31 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.31 g of CO₂e: 156.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8490
  • 4 text elements with low contrast

    4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Links must have discernible text (2 elements)

    Links must have discernible text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (23 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 23 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Zoom is disabled

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

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 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 (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 31 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 35 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 35 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

7 to fixGoogle 7761
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Title is short (10 characters)

    Your title is only 10 characters: “First Step”. 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.

  • No social preview image

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

  • No XML sitemap

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

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 28 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 28 pages on firststepsindia.com and 0 external pages.

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  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://firststepsindia.com/index.html.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

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.

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  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (474 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 15 pages without a meta description

    /about-us/index.html, /csr/index.html, /infrastructure/index.html, /sustainability/index.html, /policy/index.html and /whistleblowerpolicy/index.html and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 pages without an H1

    /about-us/index.html, /csr/index.html, /infrastructure/index.html, /sustainability/index.html, /policy/index.html and /whistleblowerpolicy/index.html and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 5 pages with very little text

    /policy/index.html, /whistleblowerpolicy/index.html, /annualreturn/index.html, /contact-us/index.html and /embellishments/index.html 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 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 405 ()”.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    20 of 21 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix83
  • 1 broken link to your own pages

    1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://firststepsindia.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection (404).

  • No Content-Security-Policy

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

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (firststepsindia.com).

  • Valid certificate (69 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for firststepsindia.com and is valid for another 69 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

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

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://firststepsindia.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • security.txt published

    A security.txt file tells researchers how to report a problem with your site.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    firststepsindia.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

    firststepsindia.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.

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  • Domain is 14 years old

    14 years

    firststepsindia.com was registered in Aug 2012 through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Aug 2027

    firststepsindia.com is registered until Aug 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix80
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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.

  • About 452 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 452 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “CONTACT US”.

  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact Us”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Cloudflare Web Analytics.

Email authentication

1 to fix50
  • No DMARC policy

    firststepsindia.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

  • Email authentication score: 50/100

    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.

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  • 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 -all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 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.

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  • Consent tool: CookieYes

    A consent management tool (CookieYes) loads with the page.

  • 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).

Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2025.
  • It runs WordPress 4.3.22; the current release is 7.1.4.

Stack

CMS
WordPress 4.3.22
Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
WooCommerce
Hosting
Cloudflare

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