startimestv.com website review

The HTML itself could arrive about 2.1 s sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

The page goes through 3 redirects before it starts loading, costing about 1.9 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

22 images could be 420 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.3 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 27. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, Google Tag Manager and Google FundingChoices and others), adding 690 KiB and 969 ms of main-thread time.

79 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (901 KiB).

About 359 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 510 ms faster on a phone.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 470 ms of main-thread work and 309 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.

A phone's processor spends 3.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 356 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 308 ms of main-thread work and 161 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.

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 5.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 1.14 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

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

Real visitors wait 2.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The layout shifts by 0.959 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 14.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 6.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image. Most of its time is resource load delay (2.9 s).

Real visitors wait 277 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 565 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 152 requests on a phone: images 1.3 MB (93), scripts 908 KiB (25) and HTML 55 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image further down the page (337 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

1 image (337 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 0.66 g of CO₂e: 78.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Links must have discernible text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

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

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.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

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

Your title is only 9 characters: “StarTimes”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

There are 7 <h1> headlines (“WHAT'S ON STARTIMES CHANNELS”, “BEST OF MONTH” and “SPORTS”). 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 Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

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

There is no robots.txt at startimestv.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

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 incomplete here.

The homepage links to 141 pages on startimestv.com and 15 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://startimestv.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.

/ and https://startimestv.com/tv_guide.html all use the title “StarTimes”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://startimestv.com/tv_guide.html has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://startimestv.com/tv_guide.html took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 99 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

No viewport meta tag, so phones render the desktop layout zoomed out.

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

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

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

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

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 544 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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 12 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 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.