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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202628 issues · 91 checks

This review found 28 issues worth fixing on benoy.com, 7 of them high impact, across 91 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
5.4 s1.4 sMay 16Oct 311.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20263.2 s
May 23, 20263.2 s
May 30, 20263.2 s
Jun 6, 20263.3 s
Jun 13, 20263.3 s
Jun 20, 20263.2 s
Jun 27, 20263.2 s
Jul 4, 20263.3 s
Jul 11, 20264.3 s
Jul 18, 20264.9 s
Jul 25, 20264.9 s
Aug 1, 20264.9 s
Aug 8, 20264.8 s
Aug 15, 20263.5 s
Aug 22, 20263.2 s
Aug 29, 20263.4 s
Sep 5, 20263.3 s
Sep 12, 20263.3 s
Sep 19, 20263.3 s
Sep 26, 20263.1 s
Oct 3, 20262.9 s
Oct 10, 20262.3 s
Oct 17, 20261.9 s
Oct 24, 20261.9 s
Oct 31, 20261.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
152 ms89 msMay 16Oct 31132 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202696 ms
May 23, 2026103 ms
May 30, 2026111 ms
Jun 6, 2026108 ms
Jun 13, 2026111 ms
Jun 20, 2026108 ms
Jun 27, 2026105 ms
Jul 4, 2026110 ms
Jul 11, 2026104 ms
Jul 18, 2026111 ms
Jul 25, 2026111 ms
Aug 1, 2026111 ms
Aug 8, 2026112 ms
Aug 15, 2026106 ms
Aug 22, 2026105 ms
Aug 29, 2026103 ms
Sep 5, 2026103 ms
Sep 12, 2026100 ms
Sep 19, 2026100 ms
Sep 26, 2026106 ms
Oct 3, 2026118 ms
Oct 10, 2026137 ms
Oct 17, 2026144 ms
Oct 24, 2026145 ms
Oct 31, 2026132 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of benoy.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. benoy.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. benoy.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. benoy.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  4. benoy.com at 2.1 s2.1 s
  5. benoy.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  6. benoy.com at 3.2 s3.2 s
  7. benoy.com at 3.7 s3.7 s
  8. benoy.com at 4.2 s4.2 s

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

Speed

4 to fix79
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    900 ms · 484 KiB

    About 484 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 79

    79/100

    Your mobile performance score is 79. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 324 ms

    324 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 324 ms of main-thread work and 302 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Civic and Google Analytics), adding 429 KiB and 468 ms of main-thread time.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 202 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    52 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 52 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    13 KiB

    1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (13 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Server response: 10 ms

    10 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Speed Index: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.2 s

    8.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 39% slower for real visitors

    +39%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 132 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 851 ms

    851 ms

    Real visitors wait 851 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.9 s

    2.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 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 element shown below. Most of its time is element render delay (2.2 s).

  • Total Blocking Time: 263 ms

    263 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 263 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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  • Real-user LCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 170 ms

    170 ms

    Real visitors wait 170 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.03

    0.03

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 41% faster for real visitors

    -41%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.2 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

100
  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (23 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.45 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.45 g of CO₂e: 54.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 1.6 MB in 46 requests

    1.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.6 MB in 46 requests on a phone: scripts 1.0 MB (23), images 385 KiB (4) and fonts 140 KiB (9). 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

2 to fixGoogle 9196
  • 6 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 3 buttons without a name

    3 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 32 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 42 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 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

2 to fixGoogle 9293
  • 3 H1 headlines

    There are 3 <h1> headlines (“18 Cross, Singapore”, “Wuxi MixC West completes on the shore of Lihu Lake” and “Benoy puts a stage on Dubai’s Crystal Lagoon at A…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • 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.

  • 19 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 19 pages on benoy.com and 5 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 110 characters

    Your meta description is 110 characters: “Benoy is a multi-award winning international Architecture, Masterplanning, Interior and Graphic Design Studio.”.

  • Title: 37 characters

    Your title is a healthy 37 characters: “Benoy | Architecture & Masterplanning”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.benoy.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ItemList, 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://www.benoy.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

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

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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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (151 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (2 KiB, 22 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix81
  • 2 pages share a title

    /news/wuxi-mixc-west-completes-on-the-shore-of-lihu-lake and /news/benoy-puts-a-stage-on-dubais-crystal-lagoon-at-azizi-venice-boulevard all use the title “The hotel is no longer the destination. It’s the connector. | Design …”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 11 pages without a meta description

    /news, /careers, /projects/18-cross, /services/commercial-consultancy, /services/masterplanning-strategy and /services/architecture and 5 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    /news/wuxi-mixc-west-completes-on-the-shore-of-lihu-lake and /news/benoy-puts-a-stage-on-dubais-crystal-lagoon-at-azizi-venice-boulevard use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 page without an H1

    /projects/18-cross has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    /projects and /contact 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.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 17 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.

  • 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 96100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    18 of 19 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix94
  • No Content-Security-Policy

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

  • No Permissions-Policy

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

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • 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 (benoy.com).

  • Valid certificate (149 days left)

    The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04 verifies for benoy.com and is valid for another 149 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

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

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://benoy.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 21 links work

    All 21 links checked from your homepage (18 internal, 3 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    benoy.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 26 years old

    26 years

    benoy.com was registered in Nov 1999 through Key-Systems GmbH. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only sectigo.com, ssl.com, amazon.com and letsencrypt.org to issue certificates for benoy.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • Registered until Nov 2027

    benoy.com is registered until Nov 2027.

Content and conversion

4 to fix50
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Only about 184 words

    The homepage has only about 184 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.

  • 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.

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  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be benoy.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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 with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:eu._netblocks.mimecast.com include:autotask.net -all”.

  • DKIM signing found

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before 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.

  • 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

CMS
WordPress
Framework
Next.js
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
AWS

Company

Employees
388
Founded
1947
Headquarters
Newark-on-Trent

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