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firstpage.com.au website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202629 issues · 103 checks
This review found 29 issues worth fixing on firstpage.com.au, 11 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
76CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 3.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 146 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 146 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 151 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 167 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 176 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 199 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 166 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 201 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
firstpage.com.au does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.8 s14 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.
Mobile performance score: 80
80/100Your mobile performance score is 80. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Avoid multiple page redirects
758 msThe page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 758 ms. Link and advertise the final URL directly.
Reduce unused CSS
460 ms · 77 KiBAbout 77 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 460 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
318 KiBAbout 318 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and reddit and others), adding 421 KiB and 350 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
192 KiB17 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (192 KiB).
Minify CSS
150 ms · 11 KiB11 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
6 long tasks on the main thread
6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 127 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Legacy JavaScript
40 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 40 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Improve image delivery
23 KiB2 images could be 23 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Minify JavaScript
8 KiB8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.5 s
A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 721 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
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-user FCP: 3.1 s
3.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 3.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 10.4 s
10.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 10.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.2 s
4.2 sYour largest element takes 4.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Real-user LCP: 3.3 s
3.3 sReal visitors wait 3.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 201 ms
201 msReal visitors wait 201 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 30% slower for real visitors
+30%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 146 ms to 201 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 66% slower for real visitors
+66%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 3.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user TTFB: 1.8 s
1.8 sReal visitors wait 1.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s
2.5 sThe first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
15 images without width and height
15 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Total Blocking Time: 205 ms
205 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 205 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
3 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Speed Index: 2.5 s
2.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.5 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
7 images far larger than shown
404 KiB7 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example case-study-pokebox.webp at 1,080 px wide, shown at 308 px. Resized copies would save about 404 KiB.
2 images below the first screen load straight away
2 images further down the page (95 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit
0.44 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.44 g of CO₂e: 52.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Page weight: 1.5 MB in 151 requests
1.5 MBYour homepage downloads 1.5 MB in 151 requests on a phone: scripts 834 KiB (45), images 395 KiB (65) and fonts 198 KiB (5). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Accessibility
19 text elements with low contrast
19 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (5 elements)
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (97 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 97 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
24 form fields without a label
24 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 138 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
38 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 38 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Blocked from indexing
Google's crawler is blocked from indexing this page.
Error status code
The page answers with an error status, so search engines may drop it.
131 internal links, 28 external
The homepage links to 131 pages on firstpage.com.au and 28 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 142 characters
Your meta description is 142 characters: “The only digital marketing agency that guarantees quality traffic to your website. Increase ROI with Australia's award-…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “We build brands & scale revenue with elite digital marketing.”.
Title: 47 characters
Your title is a healthy 47 characters: “First Page | Digital Marketing Agency Australia”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://firstpage.com.au/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, CreativeWorkSeries, FAQPage, LocalBusiness 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://firstpage.com.au/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,879 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (11 KiB, 104 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
12 pages slow to respond
/google-display-network, /facebook-advertising, /instagram-advertising, /tiktok-advertising, /youtube-advertising and /landing-page-agency and 6 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 80 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=134610310&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=66b417f4-0211-4494-b7eb-9830e8020c3c&bo=1&sid=fa924c60d7e111f18086b906a5daa699&vid=fa927e70d7e111f18fc2178fabac00c7&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=9.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 ()”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
45 of 46 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
8 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (firstpage.com.au).
Valid certificate (83 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for firstpage.com.au and is valid for another 83 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://firstpage.com.au redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 58 links work
All 58 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 18 external) answered without errors; 2 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
1 checks passed
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only pki.goog, ssl.com, comodoca.com and digicert.com to issue certificates for firstpage.com.au, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Content and conversion
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
About 3,003 words of copy
The homepage carries about 3,003 words of visible text.
9 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact Us” and “GET A FREE QUOTE”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “CONTACT US”, “Contact Us” and “Get a free quote”.
6 short forms
6 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 5 testimonial or review blocks, 24 customer or partner logos, a star rating and 9 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, HubSpot, LinkedIn Insight and Umami.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 4 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be firstpage.com.au is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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.
2 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:149.28.180.253 include:_spf.google.com include:9300456.spf06.hubspotemail.net include:sentr.online ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
10 trackers load before any consent
10Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 5 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
21 cookies set on arrival
21Opening the homepage sets 21 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
39 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 39 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
- It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.3.
- 2 plugins are behind their latest release.contact-form-7 6.1.1 → 6.2.3 · cf7-conditional-fields 2.6.3 → 2.8.3
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 3.7.1
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
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