ning.com website review

About 428 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.

63 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (372 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 49. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Adroll and others), adding 1.2 MB and 848 ms of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 427 ms of main-thread work and 507 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.

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

LiveChat costs a phone 49 ms of main-thread work and 369 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.

10 images could be 206 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 188 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 40 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

About 24 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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.

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.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 20.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 20.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors wait 357 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.24 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

The first text or image appears after 2.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 476 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The layout shifts by 0.141 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 271 ms to 252 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 2.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.8 MB in 141 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (45), other files 1.3 MB (35) and images 722 KiB (47). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

4 images (163 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

3 images further down the page (102 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 1.09 g of CO₂e: 130.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 47 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.

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

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

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

Your title is 77 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Create your own social network with the best community website builder - NING”.

Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization and WebPage) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: missing name”.

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

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

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 59 pages on ning.com and 14 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, url, logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://www.ning.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.ning.com/ning3help has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=5948368&Ver=2&mid=04462d90-c366-4b14-b1ed-6f3846f5e18e&bo=1&sid=070e7dc0d46411f1a43e63b2eb8ce183&vid=070ecef0d46411f18dc85bd1717fa4b3&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg=.

5 of 11 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “%c%d font-size:0;color:transparent NaN”.

1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

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

Your longest form asks for 9 fields (8 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

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

The homepage carries about 1,244 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Meta Pixel and 4 mores (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 18 cookies, 4 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 34 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.