markthompson.com.au website review

About 158 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 66. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 850 ms.

1 image could be 162 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

About 107 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

Your largest element takes 6.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Mark is an outcome focused executive with a track record of…”. Most of its time is resource load delay (3.2 s).

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

Visually, the page fills in at 5.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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.

1 image (70 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 0.21 g of CO₂e: 25.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

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

Your title is only 19 characters: “MTC Home Page - MTC”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

There are 6 <h1> headlines (“Mark is an outcome focused executive”, “Mark is an outcome focused executive” and “CONSULTING”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

No XML sitemap at https://www.markthompson.com.au/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

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

The homepage links to 15 pages on markthompson.com.au and 0 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), 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.

There is no https://www.markthompson.com.au/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.markthompson.com.au/about-me declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

/ and https://www.markthompson.com.au/about-me all use the title “MTC Home Page - MTC”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://www.markthompson.com.au/about-me has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 1 page linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Mixed Content: The page at 'https://www.markthompson.com.au/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure font 'ht…”.

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

Social proof on the homepage: 8 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 228 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

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.