startech.com website review

14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.8 MB).

About 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.8 s faster on a phone.

About 422 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.2 s.

Your mobile performance score is 40. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Azure Web Services, Hello Bar and iubenda and others), adding 2.2 MB and 1.0 s of main-thread time.

Azure Web Services costs a phone 873 ms of main-thread work and 1.8 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.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 559 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

54 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

The page has 2,447 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

A phone's processor spends 2.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

1 image could be 111 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

27 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

The first text or image appears after 7.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 22.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “USB4: The Standard for Driverless Enterprise Docking”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 23.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 8.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 657 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 4.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 121 ms to 119 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 2.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.8 MB in 43 requests on a phone: scripts 2.5 MB (17), fonts 752 KiB (4) and stylesheets 428 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.09 g of CO₂e: 130.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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

1 element has a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

109 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your title is 67 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “StarTech.com | IT Pro's Trusted Source for Connectivity Accessories”.

There are 3 <h1> headlines (“USB4: The Standard for Driverless Enterprise Dock…”, “AV Connectivity That Completes Your Solution” and “Committed to Sustainability Across Our Products, …”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 290 pages on startech.com and 11 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://www.startech.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.

https://www.startech.com/en-us/new-products is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 155 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

14 of 42 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

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 865 words of visible text.

Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.