hikerapi.com website review

About 364 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.

About 172 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 910 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 55. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, reqs10.com and Cloudflare and others), adding 851 KiB and 511 ms of main-thread time.

69 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 386 ms of main-thread work and 322 KiB 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.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 294 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

reqs10.com costs a phone 97 ms of main-thread work and 467 KiB 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.

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (40 KiB).

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

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.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 1.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Your largest element takes 10.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The first text or image appears after 4.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 10.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Real visitors see the first content after 2.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 270 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 2.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.44 g of CO₂e: 53.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

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

Some list items are not inside a list.

2 links inside paragraphs rely on colour alone to stand out.

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

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

Structured data found (FAQPage, Organization, Service and SoftwareApplication) but with 1 problem, for example “Service: no offers (price) block”.

The homepage links to 17 pages on hikerapi.com and 2 external pages.

The HTML your server sends has 302 of the 575 words a browser shows. AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so they miss the rest.

https://hikerapi.com/features, https://hikerapi.com/status, https://hikerapi.com/blog, https://hikerapi.com/changelog and https://hikerapi.com/contact 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.

We fetched 14 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

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

The homepage carries about 575 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.