ericboggs.com website review

18 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 5.7 s.

About 600 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 55. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Google Tag Manager and Facebook and others), adding 1.5 MB and 756 ms of main-thread time.

About 77 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Squarespace costs a phone 430 ms of main-thread work and 873 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 45 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 184 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (107 KiB).

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

1 image could be 98 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

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

The first text or image appears after 5.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 13.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 255 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.

IMG_2667.jpeg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.48 g of CO₂e: 57.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Your title is only 10 characters: “Eric Boggs”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Structured data found (LocalBusiness, Organization and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Organization: missing name”.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to 7 pages on ericboggs.com and 7 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://ericboggs.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.

https://ericboggs.com/blog has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://ericboggs.com/blog has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

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

3 of 10 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/sitecss/500987d4e4b039e596610421/1448/55f0aac0e4b0f…”.

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

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

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

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

The homepage has only about 168 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

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.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies (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 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.