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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 23 October 202629 issues · 76 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on govocal.com, 11 of them high impact, across 76 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.7 s2.0 sMay 2Oct 172.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20262.6 s
May 9, 20262.5 s
May 16, 20262.5 s
May 23, 20262.5 s
May 30, 20262.5 s
Jun 6, 20262.5 s
Jun 13, 20262.4 s
Jun 20, 20262.5 s
Jun 27, 20262.5 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.4 s
Jul 18, 20262.4 s
Jul 25, 20262.3 s
Aug 1, 20262.3 s
Aug 8, 20262.3 s
Aug 15, 20262.5 s
Aug 22, 20262.4 s
Aug 29, 20262.2 s
Sep 5, 20262.1 s
Sep 12, 20262.1 s
Sep 19, 20262.1 s
Sep 26, 20262.2 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.2 s
Oct 17, 20262.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
188 ms133 msMay 2Oct 17139 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 2026149 ms
May 9, 2026156 ms
May 16, 2026150 ms
May 23, 2026147 ms
May 30, 2026151 ms
Jun 6, 2026147 ms
Jun 13, 2026147 ms
Jun 20, 2026154 ms
Jun 27, 2026153 ms
Jul 4, 2026166 ms
Jul 11, 2026166 ms
Jul 18, 2026167 ms
Jul 25, 2026166 ms
Aug 1, 2026174 ms
Aug 8, 2026176 ms
Aug 15, 2026179 ms
Aug 22, 2026182 ms
Aug 29, 2026163 ms
Sep 5, 2026165 ms
Sep 12, 2026171 ms
Sep 19, 2026181 ms
Sep 26, 2026181 ms
Oct 3, 2026177 ms
Oct 10, 2026169 ms
Oct 17, 2026139 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. govocal.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. govocal.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. govocal.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. govocal.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  5. govocal.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  6. govocal.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  7. govocal.com at 3.1 s3.1 s
  8. govocal.com at 3.5 s3.5 s

Speed

5 to fix33
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.7 s · 943 KiB

    About 943 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 33

    33/100

    Your mobile performance score is 33 (desktop: 55). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 6.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 6.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Avoid multiple page redirects

    905 ms

    The page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 905 ms. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 573 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (mida.so, JSDelivr CDN and website-files.com), adding 87 KiB and 22 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    29 KiB

    About 29 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix100
  • 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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 16.5 s

    16.5 s

    Your largest element takes 16.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 24.5 s

    24.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 24.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.5 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.5 s

    4.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.3 s

    8.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 822 ms

    822 ms

    Real visitors wait 822 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 48 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 149 ms to 139 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

4 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    Real visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 138 ms

    138 ms

    Real visitors wait 138 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix83
  • Page weight: 3.9 MB in 249 requests

    3.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.9 MB in 249 requests on a phone: scripts 2.2 MB (109), images 1.4 MB (90) and fonts 126 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    6abbe675c3e13ba8bdf3af06_mobile background.jpg.webp 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).

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (24 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.12 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.12 g of CO₂e: 134.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 9792
  • 33 tap targets too small

    33 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 3 text elements with low contrast

    3 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 (51 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 51 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)

    Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    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.

  • 2 form fields without a label

    2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 182 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 6 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10091
  • Meta description is long (168 characters)

    Your meta description is 168 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (SoftwareApplication and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “SoftwareApplication: url is not an absolute URL ("/")”.

  • 94 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 94 pages on govocal.com and 6 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Where governments‍build trust ‍through participation”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Go Vocal - Online community engagement platform for governments”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • 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://govocal.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.

3 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 (1,250 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 51 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 50 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

2 to fixGoogle 6991
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Webflow is not defined”.

  • 18 distorted images

    18 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

  • Browser-reported issues

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

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    10 of 11 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • About 948 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 948 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Schedule a demo”.

  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Schedule a demo”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 27 customer or partner logos and 3 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Clarity (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 20 cookies set on arrival

    20

    Opening the homepage sets 20 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 32 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 32 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: CookieYes

    A consent management tool (CookieYes) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
Webflow
Analytics
Google Tag Manager

Company

Founded
2015
Headquarters
Brussels-Capital Region

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