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ask8.co.uk website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 20267 issues · 54 checks
This review found 7 issues worth fixing on ask8.co.uk, 3 of them high impact, across 54 checks. The most urgent: 1 text element with low contrast. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
91AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Improve image delivery
8 KiB1 image could be 8 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
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
100/100Your mobile performance score is 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, 32 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 115 ms
115 msYour server sent the HTML in 115 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
6 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sThe first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Largest Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sYour largest element renders in 1.1 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the image “Experience cutting-edge design from Northamptonshire's web …”.
Speed Index: 1.4 s
1.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 1.4 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Time to Interactive: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe page is fully interactive after 1.1 s.
Images and page weight
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
71b273d0-sl-hero-consultant-480x609.png.webp 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).
About 0.04 g of CO₂ per visit
0.04 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.04 g of CO₂e: 4.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Page weight: 137 KiB in 8 requests
137 KiBYour homepage downloads 137 KiB in 8 requests on a phone: images 91 KiB (5), HTML 39 KiB (1) and stylesheets 7 KiB (1). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 23 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
37 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 38 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 passed and 1 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (73 characters)
Your title is 73 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Innovative Marketing Strategies to Skyrocket Your Online Presence - A.S.K”.
35 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 35 pages on ask8.co.uk and 0 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 152 characters
Your meta description is 152 characters: “A.S.K create elegant, user-friendly websites, merging design & navigation. We go beyond online presence & turn digital …”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “We Are Passionate About Web Design, Development And User Experience”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://ask8.co.uk/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
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://ask8.co.uk/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://ask8.co.uk/llms.txt (4 KiB, 15 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
8 internal pages checked
We fetched 8 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 8 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 8 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 8 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Only about 40 words
The homepage has only about 40 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
4 checks passed
13 calls to action
The homepage has 13 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Get A Quote” and “Book A Call Back”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and 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.
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 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.
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.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at ask8.co.uk, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Namecheap
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
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