joelinteman.com website review

About 342 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.0 s.

Your mobile performance score is 71. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Adobe TypeKit and squarespace-cdn.com), adding 1.2 MB and 354 ms of main-thread time.

Squarespace costs a phone 352 ms of main-thread work and 788 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.

About 55 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

squarespace-cdn.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 314 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.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 173 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 100 ms faster on a phone.

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

2 images could be 68 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.

Your largest element takes 6.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

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.

6 images further down the page (303 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.35 g of CO₂e: 42.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Images must have alternative text: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 31 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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.

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

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 12 characters: “Joel Inteman”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

There are 19 <h1> headlines (“DAS”, “ShopBoards” and “ShopRecorder”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: image is not an absolute URL ("//images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54daa676e4b06c67da9…”.

3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

The homepage links to 24 pages on joelinteman.com and 4 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 https://www.joelinteman.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://www.joelinteman.com/contact, https://www.joelinteman.com/shopboards, https://www.joelinteman.com/gmg-cozone and https://www.joelinteman.com/adcast have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.joelinteman.com/betterview and https://www.joelinteman.com/betterview-hirer use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://www.joelinteman.com/contact, https://www.joelinteman.com/das, https://www.joelinteman.com/shopboards, https://www.joelinteman.com/shoprecorder, https://www.joelinteman.com/shopshare-v2 and https://www.joelinteman.com/shopcast and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://www.joelinteman.com/contact, https://www.joelinteman.com/das, https://www.joelinteman.com/shopboards, https://www.joelinteman.com/shoprecorder, https://www.joelinteman.com/shopshare-v2 and https://www.joelinteman.com/shopcast and 9 others have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/sitecss/54daa676e4b06c67da91b6a5/167/4fba57fde4b0f7…”.

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.

The homepage has only about 31 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 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 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.