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simplekyc.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202639 issues · 82 checks
This review found 39 issues worth fixing on simplekyc.com, 8 of them high impact, across 82 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
77CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Render-blocking requests
2.8 s7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.8 s.
Improve image delivery
2.8 MB10 images could be 2.8 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Mobile performance score: 63
63/100Your mobile performance score is 63 (desktop: 94). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
5 third-party services on the page
5 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Google CDN and cloudfront.net and others), adding 4.1 MB and 320 ms of main-thread time.
website-files.com adds 178 ms
178 mswebsite-files.com costs a phone 178 ms of main-thread work and 3.5 MB 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 34 KiBAbout 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Google CDN adds 95 ms
95 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 95 ms of main-thread work and 354 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.
Reduce unused JavaScript
243 KiBAbout 243 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Minify CSS
150 ms · 7 KiB7 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 94 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Use efficient cache lifetimes
22 KiB1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (22 KiB).
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 94 but mobile only 63. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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.
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Main-thread work: 1.0 s
A phone's processor spends 1.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 355 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 1 ms
1 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.8 s
4.8 sYour largest element takes 4.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
First Contentful Paint: 3.5 s
3.5 sThe first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.236
0.236The layout shifts by 0.236 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Time to Interactive: 6.9 s
6.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 6.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
19 images without width and height
19 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Speed Index: 3.5 s
3.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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.
1 checks passed
Total Blocking Time: 36 ms
36 msScripts block the page for only 36 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.2 MB in 40 requests
4.2 MBYour homepage downloads 4.2 MB in 40 requests on a phone: images 3.4 MB (19), scripts 476 KiB (8) and fonts 199 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image over 500 KB
603cae3a5dc3e9521a7ae27d_bartender-p-500.png weighs 567 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
6009ac93e7d75a8faa8f31e3_Slide2.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).
6 images in older formats
6 images (921 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.
About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.18 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.18 g of CO₂e: 141.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
3 text elements with low contrast
3 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
<html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)
<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (18 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 18 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.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
No page language
The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h6, h1 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 32 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
33 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 39 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 33 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores 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.
Title is short (4 characters)
Your title is only 4 characters: “Home”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
6 H1 headlines
There are 6 <h1> headlines (“Digitise Your Due Diligence”, “Accelerate Your Sales” and “Crush Your Compliance Costs”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
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:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.simplekyc.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
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.
31 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 31 pages on simplekyc.com and 3 external pages.
1 checks passed
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
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.simplekyc.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.
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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 (487 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
/ and https://www.simplekyc.com/digital-product all use the title “Home”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
9 pages without a meta description
https://www.simplekyc.com/digital-product, https://www.simplekyc.com/verify, https://www.simplekyc.com/document-reader, https://www.simplekyc.com/contact, https://www.simplekyc.com/trust-security and https://www.simplekyc.com/careers and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
https://www.simplekyc.com/contact has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
11 internal pages checked
We fetched 11 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 11 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 11 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
5 small tap targets
5 of 11 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 364 words of copy
The homepage carries about 364 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Request a Demo”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Request a Demo” and “Learn more”.
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: 3 testimonial or review blocks, 8 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Matomo.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 2 email links.
Privacy and tracking
5 cookies set on arrival
5Opening the homepage sets 5 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.
7 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 simplekyc.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2023.
Stack
- CMS
- Webflow
- Analytics
- Matomo
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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