meetfreelancers.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 77. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

11 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 800 ms.

About 79 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 430 ms faster on a phone.

About 50 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 2.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 547 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 1,942 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 96 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

5 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, jQuery CDN and Google Fonts and others), adding 185 KiB and 70 ms of main-thread time.

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

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (15 KiB).

1 image could be 6 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

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

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

Your largest element takes 5.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Connect with skilled professionals for Graphic & Design, Wr…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 5.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

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

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.42 g of CO₂e: 50.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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

2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

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

Your title is only 16 characters: “Meet Freelancers”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Meet Freelancers”, “Meet Freelancers” and “A Leading Marketplace for Professional Services”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

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

2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 200 pages on meetfreelancers.com and 3 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://meetfreelancers.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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 72 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 of 9 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

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 404 ()”.

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

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

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 2,388 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

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 9 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 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.