ndla.no website review

Your mobile performance score is 56 (desktop: 80). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 647 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 99 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (365 KiB).

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (formbricks.com, monsido.com and fontshare.com and others), adding 61 KiB and 9 ms of main-thread time.

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.

1 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

Your largest element takes 6.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Hva vil du lære om i dag?”.

The first text or image appears after 4.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 9.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 345 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 137 ms to 135 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

3 images further down the page (71 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.37 g of CO₂e: 43.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

The homepage links to 35 pages on ndla.no and 9 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://ndla.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.

https://ndla.no/article/personvernerklaering and https://ndla.no/article/erklaering-for-informasjonskapsler are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://ndla.no/samling/sma and https://ndla.no/samling/se have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://ndla.no/utdanning/bygg--og-anleggsteknikk/847f59182173, https://ndla.no/utdanning/elektro-og-datateknologi/55ad4a85ba78, https://ndla.no/utdanning/frisor-blomster-interior-og-eksponeringsdesign/235c13273508 and https://ndla.no/utdanning/handverk-design-og-produktutvikling/28899b73c188 use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://ndla.no/f/ukrainian-resources-in-norwegian-social-science/1022072a8411, whose canonical is https://ndla.no/f/ukrainske-ressurser-i-samfunnskunnskap/1022072a8411. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://ndla.no/f/ukrainian-resources-in-norwegian-social-science/1022072a8411, https://ndla.no/samling/sma, https://ndla.no/samling/se, https://ndla.no/om/nyhetsbrev, https://ndla.no/utdanning/andre-veier-til-generell-studiekompetanse/cee679243211 and https://ndla.no/utdanning/bygg--og-anleggsteknikk/847f59182173 and 3 others 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 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 31 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Connecting to 'https://api.fontshare.com/v2/css?f[]=satoshi@1&display=swap' violates the following Content Security Pol…”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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.

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 353 words of visible text.

Opening the homepage sets 2 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 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.