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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202629 issues · 74 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on saaster.io, 11 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of saaster.io (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. saaster.io at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. saaster.io at 1.2 s1.2 s
  3. saaster.io at 1.7 s1.7 s
  4. saaster.io at 2.3 s2.3 s
  5. saaster.io at 2.9 s2.9 s
  6. saaster.io at 3.5 s3.5 s
  7. saaster.io at 4.1 s4.1 s
  8. saaster.io at 4.7 s4.7 s

Speed

9 to fix54
  • Render-blocking requests

    3.6 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.6 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    2.4 s · 497 KiB

    About 497 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.3 s · 593 KiB

    29 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (593 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 54

    54/100

    Your mobile performance score is 54. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 752 KiB

    About 752 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google Tag Manager and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.3 MB and 730 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    750 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 750 ms).

  • YouTube adds 547 ms

    547 ms

    YouTube costs a phone 547 ms of main-thread work and 984 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.

  • Minify CSS

    470 ms · 30 KiB

    30 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Improve image delivery

    250 ms · 136 KiB

    3 images could be 136 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 189 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify JavaScript

    10 KiB

    10 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.0 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix60
  • Time to Interactive: 16.3 s

    16.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.8 s

    6.8 s

    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 image “SaaS Boilerplate”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 346 ms

    346 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 346 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 9 images without width and height

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

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.3 MB in 54 requests

    2.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 54 requests on a phone: scripts 1.3 MB (17), stylesheets 482 KiB (12) and fonts 230 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (185 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.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (34 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.66 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.66 g of CO₂e: 79.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 8792
  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (15 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 15 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 9 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 32 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 37 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 32 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10089
  • No structured data

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

  • No canonical URL

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

  • 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.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 40 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 40 pages on saaster.io and 5 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 89 characters

    Your meta description is 89 characters: “With Saaster, you get a free base software, starter kit, or boilerplate for SaaS projects”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Start your SaaS project quickly and easily with Saaster - the base software for SaaS development”.

  • Title: 55 characters

    Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Saaster - Base Software for SaaS Projects - Open Source”.

  • 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.saaster.io/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.saaster.io/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 (611 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix75
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to https://www.saaster.io/saaster-features/languages, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 28 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 14 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 7797
  • 5 third-party cookies

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

  • Browser-reported issues

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

3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    7 of 7 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix70
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 374 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 374 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Try It Out”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Hotjar.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar (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.

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 11 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Hotjar
Hosting
Hetzner

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