graphicallyspeaking.ca website review

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.1 s.

About 312 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 62. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 152 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 183 ms of main-thread work and 317 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.

5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and LinkedIn Ads and others), adding 379 KiB and 258 ms of main-thread time.

Polyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 131 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

1 image could be 64 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (24 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.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The first text or image appears after 6.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 6.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “For businesses & organizations that sell, serve, and inspir…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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 image (33 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.33 g of CO₂e: 39.3 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.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

8 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your title is 74 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Web Design & eCommerce Development Agency Vancouver | Graphically Speaking”.

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

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

The homepage links to 108 pages on graphicallyspeaking.ca and 6 external pages.

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.

/analysis/canadian-footwear, /analysis/pebt-public-education-benefits-trust, /analysis/kerr-wood-leidal-engineering, /analysis/town-of-ladysmith, /analysis/canada-medical and /analysis/iabc-british-columbia have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your homepage links to 5 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /services/web-design-and-development, whose canonical is /services/website-design. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/analysis/canadian-footwear, /analysis/pebt-public-education-benefits-trust, /analysis/kerr-wood-leidal-engineering, /analysis/town-of-ladysmith, /analysis/canada-medical and /analysis/iabc-british-columbia have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/services/web-design-and-development, /services/digital-marketing-and-seo, /services/integrations, /about-us and /solutions/ecommerce/shopify-plus took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 54 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 of 7 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

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

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

graphicallyspeaking.ca's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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

Social proof on the homepage: 3 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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 391 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be graphicallyspeaking.ca is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Microsoft Clarity (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 4 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 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.