thestarsgroup.com website review

7 images could be 5.9 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.9 s faster on a phone.

12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 81 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

About 52 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (11 KiB).

6 third-party services load with your homepage (WordPress, trustedsite.com and WordPress Site Stats and others), adding 297 KiB and 99 ms of main-thread time.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 82 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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.

Your largest element takes 27.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 29.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 7.8 MB in 53 requests on a phone: images 7.3 MB (12), fonts 234 KiB (7) and scripts 163 KiB (18). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.22 g of CO₂e: 266.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Form elements should have a visible label: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 25 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h1 → h3 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 22 characters: “Home - The STARS Group”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

There are 3 <h1> headlines (“We Make YOU Shine In Today's Job Market”, “Why we are different” and “Job stars bootcamp”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

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

The homepage links to 28 pages on thestarsgroup.com and 3 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 /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.

/about, /employer-services, /job-seeker-services, /job-stars-bootcamp, /i-9-form and /blog and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/contact has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

We fetched 8 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-stars-group-10a49b20a (999).

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

thestarsgroup.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

thestarsgroup.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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 analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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 417 words of visible text.

thestarsgroup.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Opening the homepage sets 14 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.