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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202635 issues · 80 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on makeitactive.com, 9 of them high impact, across 80 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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 makeitactive.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. makeitactive.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. makeitactive.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  3. makeitactive.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  4. makeitactive.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  5. makeitactive.com at 3.2 s3.2 s
  6. makeitactive.com at 3.8 s3.8 s
  7. makeitactive.com at 4.5 s4.5 s
  8. makeitactive.com at 5.1 s5.1 s

Speed

10 to fix43
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    5.6 s · 1.3 MB

    127 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.3 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    5.0 s

    101 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 5.0 s.

  • Improve image delivery

    2.7 s · 580 KiB

    7 images could be 580 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.1 s · 375 KiB

    About 375 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 43

    43/100

    Your mobile performance score is 43. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Other Google APIs/SDKs and Google Fonts), adding 802 KiB and 581 ms of main-thread time.

  • Google CDN adds 531 ms

    531 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 531 ms of main-thread work and 736 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 121 KiB

    About 121 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 3.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 1,521 HTML elements

    The page has 1,521 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 18 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 18 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 11 long tasks on the main thread

    11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 159 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    150 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).

  • Minify JavaScript

    6 KiB

    6 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 20 ms

    20 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 20 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix40
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 12.2 s

    12.2 s

    Your largest element takes 12.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Marketing Services SEO Services SEO / Search Engine Optimiz…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 12.8 s

    12.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 12.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.31

    0.31

    The layout shifts by 0.31 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Speed Index: 5.5 s

    5.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 281 ms

    281 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 281 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 5 images without width and height

    5 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.

Images and page weight

2 to fix75
  • Page weight: 3.1 MB in 144 requests

    3.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.1 MB in 144 requests on a phone: images 1.3 MB (25), scripts 970 KiB (38) and other files 349 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    39 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example upgraph.png at 650 px wide, shown at 110 px. Resized copies would save about 39 KiB.

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (145 KiB) 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.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (24 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.88 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.88 g of CO₂e: 106.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 8694
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (49 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 49 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

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

  • 50 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 2 form fields without a label

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

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h3 → h5 and h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 17 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 33 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 37 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 33 passed and 4 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 8384
  • 4 H1 headlines

    There are 4 <h1> headlines (“SEO Services”, “Website Design” and “Digital Marketing”). 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.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (LocalBusiness, Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: missing name”.

  • 5 links with vague text

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

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • 268 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 268 pages on makeitactive.com and 2 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 129 characters

    Your meta description is 129 characters: “Make it Active, LLC is a Digital Marketing Agency that offers everything from SEO & Website Design, to Graphic Design &…”.

  • Title: 48 characters

    Your title is a healthy 48 characters: “Digital Marketing & SEO Company - Make it Active”.

  • 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.makeitactive.com/index.php?option=com_jmap&view=sitemap&format=xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

  • No llms.txt

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

2 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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,861 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 7 pages without an H1

    https://www.makeitactive.com/seo, https://www.makeitactive.com/seo/contract-seo-services, https://www.makeitactive.com/seo/seo-consulting, https://www.makeitactive.com/seo/wordpress-seo, https://www.makeitactive.com/seo/joomla-seo and https://www.makeitactive.com/seo/cms-website-seo and 1 other have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 101 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 9285
  • 7 small tap targets

    7 of 25 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Expected instanceof mD but got Map”.

  • 5 distorted images

    5 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix94
  • No analytics detected

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

  • 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 1,251 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,251 words of visible text.

8 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “[object Object]”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Get Your Business Online”, “Let's Get Started!” and “START MARKETING”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 12 testimonial or review blocks, 2 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.

  • Direct contact links

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

  • Opening hours shown

    Your opening hours are on the homepage.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • LocalBusiness structured data

    Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.

Privacy and tracking

  • 2 cookies set on arrival

    2

    Opening the homepage sets 2 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.

  • 3 other companies contacted

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

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

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at makeitactive.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2017.

Stack

CMS
Joomla
Framework
jQuery
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Headquarters
Dover

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