sepidhashtroodi.com website review

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

6 images could be 16.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

24 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (14.2 MB).

Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 250 ms).

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and Google Fonts and others), adding 259 KiB and 157 ms of main-thread time.

About 128 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 108 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

27 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

About 26 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

15 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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 layout shifts by 1.006 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 4.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

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.

Your homepage downloads 21.2 MB in 30 requests on a phone: images 20.7 MB (10), scripts 288 KiB (10) and fonts 206 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

sepideh-contact.jpg weighs 705 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 sepideh-contact.jpg at 1,281 px wide, shown at 112 px. Resized copies would save about 657 KiB.

1 image (705 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 6.01 g of CO₂e: 720.9 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: 7 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.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h5 and h1 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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

Your meta description is only 47 characters: “I am a UX Designer living in Vancouver, Canada.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Sepideh Hashtroodi” and “Designing intelligent systems that transform data…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

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

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

1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

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

The homepage links to 13 pages on sepidhashtroodi.com and 7 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://sepidhashtroodi.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.

Your homepage links to https://sepidhashtroodi.com/splunk.php, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

We fetched 7 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 of 15 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust 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 472 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 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 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.