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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 202635 issues · 72 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on croinc.com, 12 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Full-page screenshot of croinc.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

9 to fix53
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    4.9 s · 578 KiB

    About 578 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    2.0 s · 628 KiB

    5 images could be 628 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.6 s

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics and others), adding 1.3 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 53

    53/100

    Your mobile performance score is 53 (desktop: 83). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    630 ms · 105 KiB

    About 105 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 630 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google CDN adds 514 ms

    514 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 514 ms of main-thread work and 734 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.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 449 ms

    449 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 449 ms of main-thread work and 411 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: 3.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 16 long tasks on the main thread

    16 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 186 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    16 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (16 KiB).

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 83 but mobile only 53. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix62
  • First Contentful Paint: 8.9 s

    8.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 8.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 15.7 s

    15.7 s

    Your largest element takes 15.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 16.4 s

    16.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.9 s

    8.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 222 ms

    222 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 222 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • 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

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix75
  • Page weight: 3.0 MB in 44 requests

    3.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 44 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (17), images 1,005 KiB (9) and other files 352 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    99 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example New-home-hero-iStock-508292540.jpg at 1,244 px wide, shown at 342 px. Resized copies would save about 99 KiB.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (309 KiB) is 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 (133 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.85 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.85 g of CO₂e: 102.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 9695
  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (3 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 4 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 37 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 40 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 8565
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Title is short (8 characters)

    Your title is only 8 characters: “CRO Inc.”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

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

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 2 links crawlers can't follow

    2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 9 internal links, 1 external

    The homepage links to 9 pages on croinc.com and 1 external page.

3 checks passed
  • Canonical URL set

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

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.croinc.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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.

2 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 (166 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 7 pages without a meta description

    /restaurants, /franchising, /catering, /about-us, /contact-us and /privacy-policy and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 6 pages without an H1

    /restaurants, /franchising, /catering, /about-us, /privacy-policy and /accessibility-statement have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 7 internal pages checked

    We fetched 7 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 7 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.

  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 small tap target

    1 of 5 tappable elements near the top of the page is smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

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 162 words

    The homepage has only about 162 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.

2 checks passed
  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “CONTACT US”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

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.

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 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.

  • 6 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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