The Reference is a Belgium and US based full service digital agency specialized in strategy, digital marketing, branding, mobile and web development.
Web health
65/100
measured 22/10/2026
Issues found
23
on their own site
Reviews
0
from clients on Dr Urls
What Dr Urls found on the-reference.com
From the audit of their public home page on 22/10/2026, worst first. Each links to what it means and how it is fixed.
- highVideo without captions
WCAG 1.2.2 requires captions for all prerecorded audio content in synchronized media.
- mediumAbove-fold images not prioritized
The Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) element is often a hero image.
- mediumButton has no accessible text
Buttons without accessible text are announced as just 'button' by screen readers, making them impossible to identify and use for visually impaired users.
- mediumImage missing alt attribute
Image alt text is the primary way search engines understand image content.
- mediumImages missing width and height attributes
Missing image dimensions are the leading cause of Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), a Core Web Vital and ranking factor.
- mediumLink has empty anchor text
Anchor text is one of the strongest signals search engines use to understand the content of the linked page.
- mediumScripts without async or defer
Synchronous scripts halt HTML parsing while the browser downloads and executes them.
- mediumStylesheets loaded in body
Stylesheets in the body block rendering of subsequent content and can cause visible layout shifts as styles are applied incrementally.
- lowBelow-the-fold images not lazy loaded
Loading all images immediately increases initial page weight and competes with critical resources for bandwidth.
- lowCSS files are not minified
Unminified CSS files are larger than necessary, increasing download time and delaying rendering.
- lowETag header missing on resources
Without ETags, browsers cannot efficiently validate whether cached resources have changed.
- lowImages missing responsive srcset
Without srcset, a 1200px wide image is downloaded on a 375px wide mobile screen, wasting bandwidth and slowing load times.
And 4 more. 3 security findings are not listed on this public page; the site's owner sees them in a full audit after claiming it.
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