inspireselection.com website review

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (10.2 MB).

4 images could be 6.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Google CDN and cloudfront.net and others), adding 21.3 MB and 383 ms of main-thread time.

website-files.com costs a phone 211 ms of main-thread work and 20.8 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.

Your mobile performance score is 87 (desktop: 99). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 322 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

Google CDN costs a phone 117 ms of main-thread work and 354 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.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 122 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 31 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

6 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 7.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors wait 880 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 3.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Specialist Recruiters for Professional People The differenc…”.

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

13 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Your homepage downloads 21.5 MB in 47 requests on a phone: images 10.6 MB (20), media 10.1 MB (2) and scripts 670 KiB (17). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 6.09 g of CO₂e: 730.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h4 and h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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

There are 9 <h1> headlines (“Specialist Recruiters for Professional People”, “Why Inspire Selection” and “The difference is our talent”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

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

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

The homepage links to 32 pages on inspireselection.com and 6 external pages.

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.

There is no https://www.inspireselection.com/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.

https://www.inspireselection.com/clients, https://www.inspireselection.com/candidates, https://www.inspireselection.com/vacancies, https://www.inspireselection.com/testimonials and https://www.inspireselection.com/privacy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.inspireselection.com/about, https://www.inspireselection.com/our-specialisms, https://www.inspireselection.com/insights and https://www.inspireselection.com/contact-us use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://www.inspireselection.com/vacancies, https://www.inspireselection.com/insights and https://www.inspireselection.com/contact-us have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 9 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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

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 1,156 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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 3 cookies (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.