clearstage.com website review

212 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (12.9 MB).

The page has 11,283 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Your mobile performance score is 58. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Hotjar, Google Tag Manager and openshareweb.com and others), adding 465 KiB and 671 ms of main-thread time.

8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 700 ms.

4 images could be 155 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 400 ms faster on a phone.

About 161 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.

Hotjar costs a phone 348 ms of main-thread work and 65 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.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 300 ms).

A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 957 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 201 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

Your largest element takes 44.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “SHOW NAVIGATION Integrated Marketing and Agency Solutions, …”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 47.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 8.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 374 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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 13.4 MB in 226 requests on a phone: images 12.7 MB (189), scripts 505 KiB (18) and fonts 192 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

6 images weigh 3.9 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

18 images (7.7 MB) 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.

15 images further down the page (4.0 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example clearstage.png at 1,400 px wide, shown at 316 px. Resized copies would save about 56 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.79 g of CO₂e: 455.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Links must have discernible text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 24 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

Headings should not be empty: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h1 → h3 and h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

There are 14 <h1> headlines (“”, “Integrated Marketing and Agency Solutions, specia…” and “✅ Growth Consulting ✅ Branding ✅ Creative ✅ Conte…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

Your meta description is 258 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to only 4 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no https://clearstage.com/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.

Your homepage links to https://clearstage.com/about, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

We fetched 1 page linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://clearstage.com/images/clients/logos/commonwealth.png.

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Mixed Content: The page at 'https://clearstage.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script 'http://aj…”.

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

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

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

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 2,112 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Comscore, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar (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 9 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 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.