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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202610 issues · 62 checks

This review found 10 issues worth fixing on browntechnical.org, 3 of them high impact, across 62 checks. The most urgent: 8 linked pages are broken. 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

Site score

89B

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Full-page screenshot of browntechnical.org (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. browntechnical.org at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. browntechnical.org at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. browntechnical.org at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. browntechnical.org at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. browntechnical.org at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. browntechnical.org at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. browntechnical.org at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. browntechnical.org at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

2 to fix97

  • Improve image delivery

    270 KiB

    2 images could be 270 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • WordPress adds 11 ms

    11 ms

    WordPress costs a phone 11 ms of main-thread work and 304 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    200 ms

    8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 200 ms.

  • Font display

    100 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (WordPress, WordPress Site Stats and wp.com), adding 592 KiB and 14 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    44 KiB

    About 44 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 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: 97

    97/100

    Your mobile performance score is 97. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 0.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 91 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 21 ms

    21 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 21 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

1 to fix100

  • Speed Index: 3.9 s

    3.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 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.

5 checks passed

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Your largest element renders in 1.7 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Technical publications for people who build, inspect & oper…”.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Time to Interactive: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The page is fully interactive after 1.7 s.

Images and page weight

100

  • About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.30 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.30 g of CO₂e: 36.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed

  • Page weight: 1.1 MB in 26 requests

    1.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.1 MB in 26 requests on a phone: fonts 628 KiB (4), images 306 KiB (3) and scripts 79 KiB (11). That is a lean page.

  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • 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 9096

  • Invalid ARIA attributes

    1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

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

2 checks passed

  • Every image has alt text

    All 2 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 43 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10093

  • Title is long (71 characters)

    Your title is 71 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Brown Technical Books | Current Codes, Standards & Technical References”.

  • 46 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 46 pages on browntechnical.org and 0 external pages.

7 checks passed

  • Meta description: 159 characters

    Your meta description is 159 characters: “Brown Technical Books supplies current ASME, API, NBIC, NFPA/NEC, engineering and trade publications with personal quot…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Technical publications for people who build, inspect & operate.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://browntechnical.org/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization 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://browntechnical.org/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://browntechnical.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.

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: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and description; sameAs (social profiles) and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (568 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix75

  • 8 linked pages are broken

    Your homepage links to https://browntechnical.org/product-category/oil-gas-drilling, https://browntechnical.org/product-category/electrical-books, https://browntechnical.org/product-category/welding-books, https://browntechnical.org/product-category/instrumentation-fluid-power, https://browntechnical.org/product-category/materials-corrosion and https://browntechnical.org/product-category/trade-handbooks-reference and 2 others, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 19 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 7 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 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed

  • No console errors

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

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    22 of 23 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix75

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • 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.

  • 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 534 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 534 words of visible text.

3 checks passed

  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Request a Quote”.

  • 10 calls to action

    The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Request a Quote / Invoice”, “Contact” and “Request a Quote”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

  • 7 cookies set on arrival

    7

    Opening the homepage sets 7 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.

  • 5 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed

  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

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 browntechnical.org, 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
E-commerce
WooCommerce
Hosting
WordPress.com

Company

Headquarters
Houston

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