techcrunch.com website review

9 images could be 483 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.2 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 41. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 8.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Rubicon Project, Google Tag Manager and Google CDN and others), adding 2.6 MB and 2.1 s of main-thread time.

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

About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

19 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 950 ms.

Rubicon Project costs a phone 552 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 436 ms of main-thread work and 534 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.

Google CDN costs a phone 366 ms of main-thread work and 734 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.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 191 ms of main-thread work and 328 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.

The page has 1,952 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

servenobid.com costs a phone 126 ms of main-thread work and 491 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.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 185 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 38 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

About 33 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 43.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 13.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 5.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “In this photo illustration, 'Binance' logo is displayed on …”.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 130 ms to 189 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The layout shifts by 0.112 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.0 MB in 1,205 requests on a phone: scripts 3.1 MB (96), other files 1.3 MB (539) and images 797 KiB (382). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example FoundersSummit-2026_Logos_founderSummit_logo_horiz_color-blk at 10,893 px wide, shown at 99 px. Resized copies would save about 53 KiB.

1 image further down the page (53 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.70 g of CO₂e: 203.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

12 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 315 pages on techcrunch.com and 9 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

There is no https://techcrunch.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.

https://techcrunch.com/latest, https://techcrunch.com/events, https://techcrunch.com/podcasts and https://techcrunch.com/newsletters have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://techcrunch.com/podcasts, whose canonical is https://techcrunch.com/podcast. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

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

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 138 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IMEohADQGV4rcD4GVSCa8AGELftSBzGQZh475GedJEeCUyL0U3WWaybctrO-uB0HN9k3X4i5-fkJs9nZBh3Mz6flS52sL-IOME6DySPeIseyhjtQcOs=h60.

64 of 78 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

5 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”).

Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach 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 1,964 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and 5 mores (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 29 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 81 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.