anewleaf.org website review

About 2.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 7.5 s faster on a phone.

27 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 7.8 s.

Squarespace costs a phone 1.0 s of main-thread work and 1.2 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Your mobile performance score is 28 (desktop: 44). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 7.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Google Tag Manager and Google CDN and others), adding 4.3 MB and 3.3 s of main-thread time.

30 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (286 KiB).

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 932 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Google CDN costs a phone 605 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

About 78 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

4 images could be 139 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 79 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 358 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Facebook costs a phone 263 ms of main-thread work and 253 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

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.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

The first text or image appears after 9.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 21.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 29.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.8 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 80 ms to 105 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 5.4 MB in 126 requests on a phone: scripts 4.0 MB (56), images 500 KiB (29) and other files 485 KiB (14). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

Cover+image+-+group+circle+against+sky.jpeg 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).

1 image further down the page (54 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.54 g of CO₂e: 184.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

Your title is only 10 characters: “A New Leaf”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Empowering people with intellectual and developme…”, “Grow. Bloom. Thrive.” and “Inspired to grow.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 243 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

Structured data found (LocalBusiness, Organization and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “WebSite: image is not an absolute URL ("//images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/594fcac6cd0f68148eb…”.

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

The homepage links to 33 pages on anewleaf.org and 11 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, url, logo and description. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://www.anewleaf.org/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.

https://www.anewleaf.org/programs, https://www.anewleaf.org/waiting-list, https://www.anewleaf.org/donate, https://www.anewleaf.org/careers, https://www.anewleaf.org/volunteer and https://www.anewleaf.org/accessibility and 8 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.anewleaf.org/programs, https://www.anewleaf.org/oak-society and https://www.anewleaf.org/client-payment have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://www.anewleaf.org/waiting-list and https://www.anewleaf.org/client-payment have 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 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Invalid or unexpected token”.

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

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

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 345 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and The Trade Desk (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.

Opening the homepage sets 7 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 23 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.