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novasat.com.sa website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202632 issues · 80 checks
This review found 32 issues worth fixing on novasat.com.sa, 11 of them high impact, across 80 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
83BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.9 s
1.8 s
2.7 s
3.6 s
4.5 s
5.4 s
6.3 s
7.2 s
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.9 s · 3.9 MB109 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.9 MB).
Render-blocking requests
3.3 s58 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.3 s.
Mobile performance score: 77
77/100Your mobile performance score is 77. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
750 ms · 155 KiBAbout 155 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 198 ms
198 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 198 ms of main-thread work and 324 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.
2,194 HTML elements
The page has 2,194 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and WordPress Site Stats), adding 349 KiB and 217 ms of main-thread time.
Font display
250 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 250 ms).
Reduce unused JavaScript
238 KiBAbout 238 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 80 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
17 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 17 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify CSS
13 KiB13 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Improve image delivery
12 KiB1 image could be 12 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
Minify JavaScript
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.7 s
A phone's processor spends 1.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 806 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 121 ms
121 msYour server sent the HTML in 121 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Speed Index: 13.6 s
13.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 13.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Time to Interactive: 9.3 s
9.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 9.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
2.7 sThe first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.5 s
3.5 sYour largest element takes 3.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Specialized in providing Communication and Information Tech…”. Most of its time is element render delay (6.6 s).
Not enough real-visitor data yet
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.
2 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.004
0.004The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.004, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 29 ms
29 msScripts block the page for only 29 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.3 MB in 119 requests
4.3 MBYour homepage downloads 4.3 MB in 119 requests on a phone: images 2.9 MB (27), scripts 759 KiB (45) and fonts 356 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image in older formats
1 image (44 KiB) is 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.
About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.21 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.21 g of CO₂e: 145.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
12 text elements with low contrast
12 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
[role="img"] and [role="image"] elements must have alternative text (12 elements)
[role="img"] and [role="image"] elements must have alternative text: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
7 tap targets too small
7 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (35 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 35 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
The skip-link target should exist and be focusable (2 elements)
The skip-link target should exist and be focusable: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
14 links without text
14 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h4 → h6 and h4 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 46 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
42 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 8 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
148 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 148 pages on novasat.com.sa and 5 external pages.
4 checks passed
Title: 33 characters
Your title is a healthy 33 characters: “NOVAsat – #1 VSAT Provider in KSA”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.novasat.com.sa/.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.novasat.com.sa/wp-sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
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.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.novasat.com.sa/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.
2 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,173 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 pages without a meta description
https://www.novasat.com.sa/leadership-message, https://www.novasat.com.sa/why-novasat, https://www.novasat.com.sa/company-overview, https://www.novasat.com.sa/company-profile, https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions and https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions/managed-services and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 pages without an H1
https://www.novasat.com.sa/leadership-message, https://www.novasat.com.sa/why-novasat, https://www.novasat.com.sa/company-overview, https://www.novasat.com.sa/company-profile, https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions and https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions/managed-services and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
4 pages slow to respond
https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions, https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions/wireless-communications, https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions/cyber-security and https://www.novasat.com.sa/services-and-solutions/internet-of-things took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 44 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
9 small tap targets
9 of 34 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 409 ()”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
About 893 words of copy
The homepage carries about 893 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Get In Touch”, “Start Now” and “Contact Us”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 37 customer or partner logos and “1 + Customers”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before 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.
4 cookies set on arrival
4Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
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.
6 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at novasat.com.sa, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Ois1
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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