listenfirstmedia.com website review

About 826 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.8 s faster on a phone.

17 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (559 KiB).

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

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and Hotjar and others), adding 1.8 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 54 (desktop: 76). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 40 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 459 ms of main-thread work and 934 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Hubspot costs a phone 194 ms of main-thread work and 364 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 43 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

16 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 154 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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.

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.

Real visitors wait 4.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 2.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 14.5 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 17.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.8 s to 4.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 368 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 194 ms to 188 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 86 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (40), fonts 115 KiB (6) and images 64 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image (47 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 0.63 g of CO₂e: 76.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 28 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.

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

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

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h3 → h5 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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

Your title is only 18 characters: “Home - ListenFirst”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 53 pages on listenfirstmedia.com and 5 external pages.

There is no https://www.listenfirstmedia.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.listenfirstmedia.com/about-us, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/industry-expertise, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/services, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/proprietary-platform, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/martech and https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/deep-dives and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/privacy-policy and https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/terms-of-service-data-processing use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/about-us, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/industry-expertise, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/proprietary-platform, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/deep-dives, https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/top-10-deep-dives and https://www.listenfirstmedia.com/say-hello and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 14 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=56372822&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=5ad6b912-5a1f-4bef-9540-fa1d980804de&bo=1&sid=1eaa2af0cf0711f1bd57e7039483dbcd&vid=1eaa5df0cf0711f1a1eb0b62a7a92201&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

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

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

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

Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

Social proof on the homepage: 25 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

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

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

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 482 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 30 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.