Everything on this page was measured directly against stripe.com on August 2026 and is reproducible.
| Check | Result | |
|---|---|---|
| Performance score | 35 / 100 | Weighted blend of the lab metrics below |
| Accessibility score | 100 / 100 | Automated WCAG checks only — a floor, not a ceiling |
| SEO score | 92 / 100 | Crawlability and on-page basics |
| Metric | Lab value | Good | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| LCP | 10.4 s | ≤ 2500ms | poor |
| CLS | 0.028 | ≤ 0.1 | good |
| TBT | 1,950 ms | ≤ 200ms | poor |
| FCP | 3.1 s | ≤ 1800ms | poor |
| SI | 6.8 s | ≤ 3400ms | poor |
One synthetic load of the homepage on an emulated mid-range phone. Lab data confirms the defect class and is fully reproducible; it does not claim the 28-day real-user percentile that field data would.
| On-page score | 88.19 / 100 | DataForSEO's own crawler, different infrastructure than this audit's |
| Time to interactive | 1 585 ms | Their crawler's desktop load — compare with the mobile lab numbers above |
| DOM complete | 5 164 ms | Full document parse time |
| Scripts on page | 76 | Independent count — corroborates the script-weight measurement |
| DOM size | 644 KB | Bigger documents parse slower on cheap phones |
| Structural flags | none raised | Duplicate/broken checks from their crawl |
| Domain age | 31.0 years | Registered 1995-09-12 (SafeNames Ltd.) — longevity is a quiet trust signal |
| Detected technologies | AWS Certificate Manager, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, Next.js, Nginx, React, Stripe | From public fingerprints — informs which fixes are platform-native vs custom work |
| Backlink domain rank | 729 / 1000 | Link-graph authority; context for how hard SERP real estate is to move |
| Referring domains | 456 125 | 91 899 423 total backlinks; spam score 5 / 100 |
| Organic keywords ranked | 115 945 | 51 449 in Google's top 10; ≈3 249 849 est. monthly organic visits (DataForSEO model) |
The brand's own Google snippets against the homepage headline layer (title, H1s, primary CTAs — currently “Financial infrastructure to grow your revenue. Accept payments, offer financial services, and implement custom revenue models—from your first transaction to you”). A promise that appears in the snippet but not in the headline is a scent break at the very first click. Token comparison, computed — not a model's reading.
| Search snippet | Headline overlap | Promises missing from headline |
|---|---|---|
| Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue | 80% | none |
| Check | Measured | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Server response (TTFB proxy) | 365 ms | Under 800ms is healthy |
| HTML document weight | 642 KB | Every byte is parsed before first paint |
| Scripts loaded | 0 inline + 0 external | The usual root cause of slow interactivity |
| Compression | gzip | gzip / brotli on HTML responses |
| HTTPS | pass | With redirect from http:// |
| Check | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Title tag | 54 chars | 15–60 characters recommended |
| Meta description | 148 chars | 70–160 characters recommended |
| Canonical URL | pass | Prevents duplicate-content splits |
| Open Graph (og:title / og:image) | pass | Controls link previews when shared |
| Structured data (JSON-LD) | pass | Enables rich results in search |
| Indexable | yes | no robots meta restrictions |
| robots.txt | pass | References sitemap |
| sitemap.xml | missing | Crawl coverage for search engines |
| Header | Status | Protects against |
|---|---|---|
| CSP | pass | Blocks injected scripts (XSS) |
| HSTS | pass | Forces HTTPS on every future visit |
| Referrer-Policy | pass | Controls what leaks in the Referer header |
| X-Frame-Options | pass | Prevents clickjacking via iframes |
| Permissions-Policy | missing | Limits camera/mic/geolocation access |
| X-Content-Type-Options | pass | Stops MIME-type sniffing |
| Check | Count | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Buttons without an accessible name | 11 / 31 | WCAG 2.2 — 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value |
| Images missing alt text | 0 / 44 | WCAG 2.2 — 1.1.1 Non-text Content |
| Unlabelled form inputs | 0 / 0 | WCAG 2.2 — 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions |
| Links without text | 29 / 186 | Screen readers announce these as "link" |