stepsstone.net website review

41 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 8.1 s.

About 1.1 MB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.7 s faster on a phone.

YouTube costs a phone 1.2 s of main-thread work and 3.8 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 1.0 s of main-thread work and 1.3 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.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 1.1 s).

Your mobile performance score is 30 (desktop: 38). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 7.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 3,682 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 3.8 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google Tag Manager and cloudfront.net and others), adding 7.0 MB and 2.7 s of main-thread time.

6 images could be 2.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.

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

The HTML itself could arrive about 700 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 743 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Reduce initial server response time. Google estimates savings of 683 ms on a phone.

262 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

sell.do costs a phone 60 ms of main-thread work and 837 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.

livhousing.com costs a phone 23 ms of main-thread work and 554 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.

Your server takes 783 ms to send the HTML. Google recommends under 600 ms; everything else waits for it.

Polyfills for old browsers add 94 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

11 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 4.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 2.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The first text or image appears after 11.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 13.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Finding the right property is more than selecting a locatio…”.

Visually, the page fills in at 33.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 69.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.3 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 358 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 246 ms to 472 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.7 s to 6.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 15.4 MB in 341 requests on a phone: scripts 7.7 MB (118), images 4.3 MB (44) and stylesheets 1.5 MB (53). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

11 images (803 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.

11 images further down the page (820 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.37 g of CO₂e: 524.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Some list items are not inside a list.

2 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 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one main landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

10 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your title is 67 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Top Real Estate Developers & Land Promoters in Chennai | StepsStone”.

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

The homepage links to 191 pages on stepsstone.net and 33 external pages.

There is no https://stepsstone.in/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://stepsstone.in/join-venture, https://stepsstone.in/channel-partner, https://stepsstone.in/apartments/mogappair-west, https://stepsstone.in/apartments/completed and https://stepsstone.in/apartments/artithaa-west-mambalam took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 74 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://stepsstone.in/.

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

2 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”).

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

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 2,166 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager 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 18 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 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.