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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202613 issues · 59 checks

This review found 13 issues worth fixing on maddesign.io, 5 of them high impact, across 59 checks. The most urgent: 30 text elements with low contrast. 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 maddesign.io (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. maddesign.io at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. maddesign.io at 1.2 s1.2 s
  3. maddesign.io at 1.7 s1.7 s
  4. maddesign.io at 2.3 s2.3 s
  5. maddesign.io at 2.9 s2.9 s
  6. maddesign.io at 3.5 s3.5 s
  7. maddesign.io at 4.1 s4.1 s
  8. maddesign.io at 4.7 s4.7 s

Speed

2 to fix73
  • Mobile performance score: 73

    73/100

    Your mobile performance score is 73. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    757 KiB

    14 images could be 757 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 27 KiB

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

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 93 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    14 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 14 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 322 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

3 to fix68
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.7 s

    7.7 s

    Your largest element takes 7.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.1 s

    8.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 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.

3 checks passed
  • First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 43 ms

    43 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 43 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix75
  • Page weight: 2.1 MB in 95 requests

    2.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 95 requests on a phone: images 1.7 MB (65), scripts 184 KiB (10) and fonts 71 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 6 images far larger than shown

    307 KiB

    6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 0qvjGV5tKK1reXZwPMOwQpnPKdw.webp at 1,000 px wide, shown at 205 px. Resized copies would save about 307 KiB.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.59 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.59 g of CO₂e: 70.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 9094
  • 30 text elements with low contrast

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

  • <dt> and <dd> elements must be contained by a <dl> (2 elements)

    <dt> and <dd> elements must be contained by a <dl>: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • <dl> elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements (1 element)

    <dl> elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 131 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 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

2 to fixGoogle 10088
  • Title is long (67 characters)

    Your title is 67 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Maddesign — Product design studio for web, mobile and AI-built apps”.

  • Meta description is long (184 characters)

    Your meta description is 184 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 17 internal links, 28 external

    The homepage links to 17 pages on maddesign.io and 28 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Product design that makes sense from the first click”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://maddesign.io/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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://maddesign.io/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://maddesign.io/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.

3 checks passed
  • 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.

  • Organization data: 6 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,641 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 7 internal pages checked

    We fetched 7 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 7 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

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

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 7 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    24 of 25 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix90
  • No analytics detected

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

  • 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.

  • About 1,653 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,653 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “CONTACT” and “START A PROJECT”.

  • 11 calls to action

    The homepage has 11 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Contact” and “Start a project”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks and “25+ clients”.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 2 email links.

Privacy and tracking

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • 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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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
Next.js
Hosting
Vercel

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