egu.eu website review

9 images could be 276 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

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

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 450 ms).

About 48 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.

About 34 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (18 KiB).

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 999 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 147 ms to 155 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.30 g of CO₂e: 35.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

Your title is only 26 characters: “European Geosciences Union”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

There are 6 <h1> headlines (“EGU news Teachers and educators: apply now for th…”, “EGU news GeoCinema at EGU27 – submit your short f…” and “EGU news Early Career Scientists step into the ro…”). 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 198 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

No XML sitemap at https://www.egu.eu/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

19 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

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

The homepage links to 194 pages on egu.eu and 46 external pages.

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 /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.

/structure/divisions, /as, /bg, /cl, /cr and /emrp and 9 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 147 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

14 of 27 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

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 822 words of visible text.

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.

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.