simplylearn.net website review

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

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 1.1 s of main-thread work and 898 KiB 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.

Your mobile performance score is 37. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 5.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Hotjar and others), adding 1.6 MB and 2.2 s of main-thread time.

81 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.2 MB).

About 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

7 images could be 434 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Facebook costs a phone 420 ms of main-thread work and 294 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.

About 113 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 392 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Hotjar costs a phone 339 ms of main-thread work and 72 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

19 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

3 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.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Real visitors wait 6.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 6.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 4.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 7.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “new backend 3”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 16.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.5 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 3.3 MB in 116 requests on a phone: scripts 1.7 MB (39), images 1.2 MB (38) and fonts 178 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

8 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.

7 images further down the page (964 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example M4europe-site-team-pictures-Oivind-01-portrait.png at 855 px wide, shown at 120 px. Resized copies would save about 390 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.92 g of CO₂e: 110.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

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

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

Your title is 73 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “A simple and flexible learning platform on your own website - SimplyLearn”.

The homepage links to 60 pages on simplylearn.net and 13 external pages.

There is no https://simplylearn.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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

https://simplylearn.com/no/home declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

/ and https://simplylearn.com/no/home all use the title “A simple and flexible learning platform on your own website - SimplyL…”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://simplylearn.com/contact-us and https://simplylearn.com/support have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 of 5 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 “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://accounts.google.com/gsi/style' from origin 'https://simplylearn.com' has been bloc…”.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

Your homepage shows a map but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

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 798 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Meta 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 16 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.