recurring.studio website review

2 images could be 1.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Your mobile performance score is 86. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (732 KiB).

About 70 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.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare and Plausible and others), adding 185 KiB and 50 ms of main-thread time.

Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

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 5.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 2.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “What I'm currently building”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.4 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.

profile-pic-sortlist.png weighs 1,023 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example profile-pic-sortlist.png at 829 px wide, shown at 100 px. Resized copies would save about 889 KiB.

2 images (1.0 MB) 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.35 g of CO₂e: 41.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

Your title is 88 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Vincenzo Ruggiero • Hacking & shipping stuff since the '90s. Happy dad. Made in Belgium.”.

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

No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

No XML sitemap at https://vincenzo.be/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

The homepage links to only 1 page on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

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

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://vincenzo.be/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.

8 of 16 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 “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

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 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 158 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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

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