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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202631 issues · 72 checks

This review found 31 issues worth fixing on kempbros.com, 10 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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 kempbros.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

7 to fix55
  • Improve image delivery

    2.1 s · 850 KiB

    7 images could be 850 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.8 s

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.8 s.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    7.8 MB

    6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (7.8 MB).

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, cloudfront.net and Google CDN and others), adding 12.0 MB and 248 ms of main-thread time.

  • website-files.com adds 149 ms

    149 ms

    website-files.com costs a phone 149 ms of main-thread work and 11.8 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.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    900 ms · 149 KiB

    About 149 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 55

    55/100

    Your mobile performance score is 55 (desktop: 87). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 224 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 27 KiB

    About 27 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 87 but mobile only 55. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 554 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix63
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 19.9 s

    19.9 s

    Your largest element takes 19.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Reputation Can't be Bought - It Must Be Earned OVER 130 YEA…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 20.7 s

    20.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 20.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.7 s

    4.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 212 ms

    212 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 212 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 6 images without width and height

    6 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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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 12.3 MB in 61 requests

    12.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 12.3 MB in 61 requests on a phone: media 7.5 MB (2), images 4.0 MB (29) and scripts 440 KiB (14). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 3.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.49 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.49 g of CO₂e: 418.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9393
  • 10 text elements with low contrast

    10 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 6 links without text

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

  • 4 form fields without a label

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

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

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  • 45 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 3 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 10082
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 5 H1 headlines

    There are 5 <h1> headlines (“OVER 130 YEARS OF DOING WHAT WE SAY WE’RE GOING T…”, “WE STRIVE TO BE THE BEST” and “WE BRING PURPOSE TO EVERY PROJECT WE BUILD”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Meta description is long (279 characters)

    Your meta description is 279 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 31 internal links, 10 external

    The homepage links to 31 pages on kempbros.com and 10 external pages.

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  • Title: 45 characters

    Your title is a healthy 45 characters: “Kemp Bros Construction in Southern California”.

  • 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://www.kempbros.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.kempbros.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 (499 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://www.kempbros.com/privacy-policy has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://www.kempbros.com/projects has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    https://www.kempbros.com/news/media and https://www.kempbros.com/contact/contact-info 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 (of 16 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 3 small tap targets

    3 of 13 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix75
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 423 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 423 words of visible text.

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  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Subscribe”, “Contact info” and “CONTACT US”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (3 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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.

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2022.

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