sherpas.dev website review

About 2.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.0 s faster on a phone.

16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.5 MB).

YouTube costs a phone 2.3 s of main-thread work and 3.0 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.

website-files.com costs a phone 1.4 s of main-thread work and 2.9 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

A phone's processor spends 10.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 6.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Your mobile performance score is 28. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, website-files.com and posthog.com and others), adding 6.9 MB and 5.4 s of main-thread time.

About 135 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

posthog.com costs a phone 849 ms of main-thread work and 254 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 400 ms of main-thread work and 304 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.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 324 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

The page has 1,733 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

18 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

2 images could be 106 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Polyfills for old browsers add 31 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

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.

The first text or image appears after 10.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 16.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Features That Simplify Team Management Contact Us Join Free…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 29.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

3 images 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 7.1 MB in 123 requests on a phone: scripts 3.5 MB (43), media 2.2 MB (6) and HTML 498 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

676560edbe11ca40ca1393fe_Dashboard-summ-p-500.png is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example 67656e99c2679672c843952e_alex.png at 384 px wide, shown at 98 px. Resized copies would save about 33 KiB.

2 images (119 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.02 g of CO₂e: 242.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 22 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.

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

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 12 pages on sherpas.dev and 6 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 /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.

/privacy and /eula are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

14 of 30 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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

The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

sherpas.dev has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

sherpas.dev's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach 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 584 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be sherpas.dev is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Reddit Pixel (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 5 cookies, 1 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 23 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.