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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202636 issues · 70 checks

This review found 36 issues worth fixing on justingenovese.com, 11 of them high impact, across 70 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 30.6 MB in 62 requests. 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

Full-page screenshot of justingenovese.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. justingenovese.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. justingenovese.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. justingenovese.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. justingenovese.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. justingenovese.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. justingenovese.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. justingenovese.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. justingenovese.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

9 to fix81
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.1 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

  • Improve image delivery

    29.5 MB

    14 images could be 29.5 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, sqspcdn.com and JSDelivr CDN and others), adding 30.5 MB and 701 ms of main-thread time.

  • squarespace-cdn.com adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    squarespace-cdn.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 27.8 MB 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.

  • Mobile performance score: 81

    81/100

    Your mobile performance score is 81. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Squarespace adds 696 ms

    696 ms

    Squarespace costs a phone 696 ms of main-thread work and 2.7 MB 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    600 ms · 137 KiB

    About 137 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    504 KiB

    About 504 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 319 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    34 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 34 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    3 KiB

    4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3 KiB).

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  • Main-thread work: 1.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 553 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 29 ms

    29 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 29 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix92
  • Time to Interactive: 12.3 s

    12.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 12.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.6 s

    8.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    Your largest element takes 2.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “I'm a brand-building-creative-directing-team-empowering-sus…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.5 s).

  • 14 images without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • Total Blocking Time: 192 ms

    192 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 192 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 30.6 MB in 62 requests

    30.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 30.6 MB in 62 requests on a phone: images 29.4 MB (14), scripts 954 KiB (23) and stylesheets 166 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images over 500 KB

    3 images weigh 25.8 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 4 images far larger than shown

    12.6 MB

    4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Port-Thumb-Waternative-1.gif at 1,260 px wide, shown at 326 px. Resized copies would save about 12.6 MB.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (25.8 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (25.3 MB) are 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.

  • About 8.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    8.67 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 8.67 g of CO₂e: 1040.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 8694
  • 14 images without alt text

    14 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

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

  • 14 links without text

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

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  • 31 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 34 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 31 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 8570
  • No meta description

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

  • No H1 headline

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

  • Title is short (15 characters)

    Your title is only 15 characters: “Justin Genovese”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 38 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 38 pages on justingenovese.com and 0 external pages.

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  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: WebSite.

  • 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://www.justingenovese.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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://www.justingenovese.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.

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  • 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 (194 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 14 pages without a meta description

    https://www.justingenovese.com/about, https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-smb, https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-brandsystem, https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-impactreport, https://www.justingenovese.com/mangomint-brand and https://www.justingenovese.com/mangomint-product and 8 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 14 pages without an H1

    https://www.justingenovese.com/about, https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-smb, https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-brandsystem, https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-impactreport, https://www.justingenovese.com/mangomint-brand and https://www.justingenovese.com/mangomint-product and 8 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 4 pages with very little text

    https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-smb, https://www.justingenovese.com/ringcentral-impactreport, https://www.justingenovese.com/mangomint-gotomarket and https://www.justingenovese.com/nissan 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.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 10087
  • 5 small tap targets

    5 of 12 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/versioned-site-css/5ebd8ea7e3bec926459765a4/232/5c5…”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

5 to fix42
  • No call to action on the first screen

    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 calls to action

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

  • Thin social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • Only about 179 words

    The homepage has only about 179 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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.

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  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.

Privacy and tracking

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    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.

  • 6 other companies contacted

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

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  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Security, domain, email and software versions

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