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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202613 issues · 87 checks

This review found 13 issues worth fixing on 3notch.com, 4 of them high impact, across 87 checks. The most urgent: 30 text elements with low contrast. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of 3notch.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. 3notch.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. 3notch.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. 3notch.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. 3notch.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. 3notch.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. 3notch.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. 3notch.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. 3notch.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

3notch.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

1 to fix100
  • Improve image delivery

    1.2 MB

    6 images could be 1.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, dawn3host.com and usbrowserspeed.com and others), adding 200 KiB and 158 ms of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    150 ms

    1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 96 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    89 KiB

    About 89 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    16 KiB

    3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (16 KiB).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    16 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 16 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

3 checks passed
  • Mobile performance score: 100

    100/100

    Your mobile performance score is 100 (desktop: 100). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 0.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 132 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 70 ms

    70 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 70 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

1 to fix100
  • Time to Interactive: 4.1 s

    4.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 4.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

5 checks passed
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

  • First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Your largest element renders in 0.9 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Guidance. Expertise. Partnership.”.

  • Speed Index: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 1.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 37 ms

    37 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 37 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

4 to fix53
  • 1 image over 500 KB

    image weighs 520 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • Page weight: 2.1 MB in 18 requests

    2.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 18 requests on a phone: images 1.7 MB (7), scripts 200 KiB (6) and fonts 102 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    image is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 5 images far larger than shown

    231 KiB

    5 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example image at 1,280 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 231 KiB.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.58 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.58 g of CO₂e: 70.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

Accessibility

2 to fixGoogle 9595
  • 30 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (12 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 33 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 34 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 36 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 34 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 9298
  • 1 link with vague text

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

  • 79 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 79 pages on 3notch.com and 4 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 135 characters

    Your meta description is 135 characters: “Three Notch Group delivers environmental consulting, civil engineering, geotechnical, and infrastructure services acros…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Guidance. Expertise. Partnership.”.

  • Title: 59 characters

    Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Three Notch Group | Environment & Infrastructure Consulting”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://3notch.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: LocalBusiness.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://3notch.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    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.

3 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; logo and description would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (950 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix98
  • 15 pages share a meta description

    /about, /leadership, /public-entities, /private-enterprise, /petroleum-industry and /civil-site-development and 9 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 28 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9293
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Loading the script 'https://tag.demandbase.com/partnertag.min.js' violates the following Content Security Policy direct…”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    15 of 15 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • No security.txt

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

8 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (3notch.com).

  • Valid certificate (77 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for 3notch.com and is valid for another 77 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://3notch.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 34 links work

    All 34 links checked from your homepage (30 internal, 4 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    3notch.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.

3 checks passed
  • Domain is 8 years old

    8 years

    3notch.com was registered in May 2018 through Cloudflare, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • DNSSEC is on

    3notch.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.

  • Registered until May 2027

    3notch.com is registered until May 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix86
  • No call to action on the first screen

    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 opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 548 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 548 words of visible text.

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  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • LocalBusiness structured data

    Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.

Email authentication

85
  • Email authentication score: 85/100

    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.

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  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:208.45.224.142 ip4:208.42.98.19 ip4:108.178.227.34 ip4:65.156.199.244 ip4:167.89.11.197 ip4:147.202.67.24 ip…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager (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.

  • No consent tool detected

    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.

  • 4 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
Astro
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Vercel

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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