michalmuller.com website review

27 images could be 1.8 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.

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

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

Visually, the page fills in at 3.8 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.

Your homepage downloads 9.0 MB in 50 requests on a phone: media 6.5 MB (3), images 2.5 MB (42) and fonts 23 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

25 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example design-aplus-dark.avif at 2,400 px wide, shown at 350 px. Resized copies would save about 1.8 MB.

onramp-trade-flow.avif is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.56 g of CO₂e: 307.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).

Your meta description is 161 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to only 4 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

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://michalmuller.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://michalmuller.com/work and https://michalmuller.com/projects 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 2 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.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

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.

The homepage has only about 43 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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.

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.