brooksidedesign.com website review

A phone's processor spends 4.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Shopify and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.1 MB and 991 ms of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 73. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

YouTube costs a phone 895 ms of main-thread work and 1,018 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.

About 547 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 329 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 130 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 16 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

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.

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

The page becomes fully interactive after 12.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 3.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “The Oversized Document Storage Specialists We solve your or…”.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 497 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

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.

Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 128 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (37), other files 710 KiB (77) and images 151 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.61 g of CO₂e: 73.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Your title is only 16 characters: “Brookside Design”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is 299 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

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

The homepage links to 40 pages on brooksidedesign.com and 3 external pages.

/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/customer_authentication/redirect, /collections/blueprint-storage-rack, /collections/hanging-clamps and /collections/vis-i-rack have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/products/hanging-clamps, /products/24-hanging-print-clamps, /products/30-hanging-print-clamps and /products/36-hanging-print-clamps use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/collections and /pages/contact-us 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 (of 22 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://brooksidedesign.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en&region_country=US.

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

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

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

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

brooksidedesign.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.

brooksidedesign.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.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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 analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

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 525 words of visible text.

brooksidedesign.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads (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 5 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.