matrixservice.com website review

About 601 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

27 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

Your mobile performance score is 41. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 4.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Hubspot and others), adding 1.6 MB and 1.3 s of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 886 ms of main-thread work and 977 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.

7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (297 KiB).

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 278 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

The page has 1,571 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 38 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 37 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

1 image could be 16 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

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 12.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 15.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 784 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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 45.4 MB in 97 requests on a phone: media 43.4 MB (5), scripts 1.4 MB (36) and fonts 348 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 12.86 g of CO₂e: 1543.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 24 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Your title is only 29 characters: “Home - Matrix Service Company”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

The homepage links to 323 pages on matrixservice.com and 14 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.

https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/epc/terminals, https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/epc/power-utility-plants, https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/epc/gas-processing, https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/epc/industrial-epc, https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/epc/carbon-capture and https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/epc and 7 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/engineering-design/facility-upgrades and https://matrixservicecompany.com/capability/engineering-design/modular-construction took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 96 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 of 13 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

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

Social proof on the homepage: 3 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

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 681 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel (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 10 cookies (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 23 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.