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broadheadco.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202634 issues · 97 checks
This review found 34 issues worth fixing on broadheadco.com, 13 of them high impact, across 97 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
74CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.0 s |
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
Speed
Render-blocking requests
4.1 s10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.1 s.
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.1 s · 440 KiBAbout 440 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.5 s · 210 KiB4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (210 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 47
47/100Your mobile performance score is 47 (desktop: 66). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Improve image delivery
450 ms · 1.1 MB12 images could be 1.1 MB 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.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Hotjar and others), adding 1,022 KiB and 912 ms of main-thread time.
Google Tag Manager adds 525 ms
525 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 525 ms of main-thread work and 609 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 14 KiBAbout 14 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
300 ms · 12 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
9 long tasks on the main thread
9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 222 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
Minify CSS
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.5 s
A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 856 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 30.7 s
30.7 sYour largest element takes 30.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “The hardest part of marketing isn’t getting noticed. It’s m…”.
Time to Interactive: 32.4 s
32.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 32.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 5.5 s
5.5 sThe first text or image appears after 5.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.6 s
6.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 481 ms
481 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 481 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
20 images without width and height
20 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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.
1 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 8.6 MB in 62 requests
8.6 MBYour homepage downloads 8.6 MB in 62 requests on a phone: images 7.1 MB (21), scripts 1.1 MB (21) and fonts 434 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image far larger than shown
72 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example broadhead-agency-culture.jpg at 1,500 px wide, shown at 350 px. Resized copies would save about 72 KiB.
2 images in older formats
2 images (410 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (141 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 2.4 g of CO₂ per visit
2.45 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.45 g of CO₂e: 293.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
<svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text (11 elements)
<svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 tap target too small
1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one main landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one main landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (8 elements).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 22 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
40 internal links, 15 external
The homepage links to 40 pages on broadheadco.com and 15 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 121 characters
Your meta description is 121 characters: “We are a full-service marketing agency. broadhead is focused on powering brands that redefine how we eat, move, and liv…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “We help brands grow when buying decisions are anything but simple.”.
Title: 41 characters
Your title is a healthy 41 characters: “Independent Marketing Agency | broadhead.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://broadheadco.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, 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://broadheadco.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), 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.
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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (334 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (1 KiB, 0 links, though it should open with a “# Title” line), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
3 pages without a meta description
/news/ad-age-names-broadhead-2026-small-agency-of-the-year, /news/broadhead-brings-home-two-4as-jay-chiat-awards and /work/food-beverage/turning-citrus-surplus-into-pop-culture-currency have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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
13 small tap targets
13 of 33 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (broadheadco.com).
Valid certificate (74 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for broadheadco.com and is valid for another 74 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://broadheadco.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 32 links work
All 32 links checked from your homepage (23 internal, 9 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
broadheadco.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
broadheadco.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 25 years old
25 yearsbroadheadco.com was registered in Apr 2001 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Apr 2030
broadheadco.com is registered until Apr 2030.
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 calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
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 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 316 words of copy
The homepage carries about 316 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks and 8 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and HubSpot.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 90/100
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
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:_spf.meltwater.com include:spf.dynect.net ip4:23.253.183.0/24 ip4:65.…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 1 more (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.
9 cookies set on arrival
9Opening the homepage sets 9 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.
13 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
- It runs WordPress 1.14.2; the current release is 7.1.3.
- 1 plugin is behind its latest release.simple-banner 3.3.2 → 3.3.3
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 1.14.2
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
Company
- Employees
- 150
- Headquarters
- Minneapolis
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