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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202623 issues · 85 checks

This review found 23 issues worth fixing on 97thfloor.com, 3 of them high impact, across 85 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 15.4 MB in 75 requests. 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

Live view · interaction off

Speed

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  • Mobile performance score: 76

    76/100

    Your mobile performance score is 76. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 5 long tasks on the main thread

    5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 509 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 287 KiB

    About 287 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 2.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Ads and Google/Doubleclick Ads and others), adding 237 KiB and 241 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    10 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (10 KiB).

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 7 ms

    7 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

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  • Time to Interactive: 10.6 s

    10.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 585 ms

    585 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 585 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Speed Index: 4.9 s

    4.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.9 s

    2.9 s

    Your largest element takes 2.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Driving Conversions through Audience-First GEO, Advertising…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.1 s).

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 9 images without width and height

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

  • 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.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.003

    0.003

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.003, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

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  • Page weight: 15.4 MB in 75 requests

    15.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 15.4 MB in 75 requests on a phone: images 14.4 MB (26), scripts 823 KiB (28) and fonts 99 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 4.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    4.37 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.37 g of CO₂e: 524.0 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.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

1 to fixGoogle 10098
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (59 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 59 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 58 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 31 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 32 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 31 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10093
  • Structured data has 4 problems

    Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Organization, ProfessionalService and Service) but with 4 problems, for example “Service: no offers (price) block”.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 73 internal links, 3 external

    The homepage links to 73 pages on 97thfloor.com and 3 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “97th Floor is a digital marketing agency that grows brands through advertising, SEO, content marketing & design. We're …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Driving Conversions through Audience-First GEO, Advertising, and Content”.

  • Title: 37 characters

    Your title is a healthy 37 characters: “97th Floor | Digital Marketing Agency”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://97thfloor.com/.

  • 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://97thfloor.com/sitemap_index.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.

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  • 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, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (660 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

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  • 3 pages without a meta description

    /services/design, /industries and /personas/developer-marketing have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page with very little text

    /industries 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.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 36 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • 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

Google 100100
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  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    7 of 8 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

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  • No HSTS header

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

  • No Content-Security-Policy

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

  • No clickjacking protection

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

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

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

  • No Referrer-Policy

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

  • No Permissions-Policy

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

  • No security.txt

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

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (97thfloor.com).

  • Valid certificate (52 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for 97thfloor.com and is valid for another 52 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://97thfloor.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 42 links work

    All 42 links checked from your homepage (39 internal, 3 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    97thfloor.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.

  • DNSSEC is off

    97thfloor.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.

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  • Domain is 21 years old

    21 years

    97thfloor.com was registered in Oct 2005 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Oct 2030

    97thfloor.com is registered until Oct 2030.

Content and conversion

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  • 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 phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 5 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • 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 531 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 531 words of visible text.

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  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “LEARN MORE ABOUT GEO/AEO”, “LEARN MORE ABOUT SEO” and “LEARN MORE ABOUT ADVERTISING”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Hotjar.

  • 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

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  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be 97thfloor.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • Email authentication score: 70/100

    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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  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 a include:_spf.google.com include:3416489.spf03.hubspotemail.net ip4:209.23.205.75 ip4:24.104.131.150 ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “k2” and “hs1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

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  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight (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.

  • 7 cookies set on arrival

    7

    Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 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.

  • 19 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 19 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2024.
  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.3.

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | Hotjar

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