marxrealty.com website review

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Vimeo, Google Tag Manager and jQuery CDN and others), adding 17.7 MB and 341 ms of main-thread time.

Vimeo costs a phone 229 ms of main-thread work and 17.5 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.

About 718 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.

Your mobile performance score is 74. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

1 image could be 8 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.

9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (104 KiB).

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 81 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

6 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 4.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Background”.

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

The layout shifts by 0.162 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

6 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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.

Your homepage downloads 18.1 MB in 81 requests on a phone: other files 16.3 MB (41), scripts 1.2 MB (17) and images 217 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example thumb.jpg.webp at 1,920 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 47 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 5.12 g of CO₂e: 614.4 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.

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

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to 14 pages on marxrealty.com and 5 external pages.

There is no https://marxrealty.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://marxrealty.com/heritage and https://marxrealty.com/investors all use the title “About Marx Realty & Merchants' National Properties”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://marxrealty.com/heritage and https://marxrealty.com/investors use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

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

https://marxrealty.com/investors and https://marxrealty.com/contact 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.

We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

21 of 22 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

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

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

The homepage has only about 111 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

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

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.

Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.