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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 31 October 202621 issues · 65 checks

This review found 21 issues worth fixing on mccann.ca, 6 of them high impact, across 65 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 11.9 MB in 74 requests. 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 mccann.ca (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. mccann.ca at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. mccann.ca at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. mccann.ca at 1.4 s1.4 s
  4. mccann.ca at 1.9 s1.9 s
  5. mccann.ca at 2.4 s2.4 s
  6. mccann.ca at 2.9 s2.9 s
  7. mccann.ca at 3.4 s3.4 s
  8. mccann.ca at 3.8 s3.8 s

Speed

5 to fix70
  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, prismic.io and Google Analytics), adding 11.1 MB and 211 ms of main-thread time.

  • prismic.io adds 10 ms

    10 ms

    prismic.io costs a phone 10 ms of main-thread work and 10.8 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.

  • Mobile performance score: 70

    70/100

    Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    750 ms · 174 KiB

    About 174 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    300 ms

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 146 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    96 KiB

    5 images could be 96 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 552 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 20 ms

    20 ms

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

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix66
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    Your largest element takes 10.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “McCann logo”.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.9 s

    10.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 4.9 s

    4.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 11 images without width and height

    11 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.

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  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 84 ms

    84 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 84 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 11.9 MB in 74 requests

    11.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 11.9 MB in 74 requests on a phone: media 10.0 MB (8), images 819 KiB (20) and fonts 572 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 2 images below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (50 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 3.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.36 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.36 g of CO₂e: 403.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

1 to fix94
  • 2 images without alt text

    2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 8388
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • No robots.txt

    There is no robots.txt at mccann.ca/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 11 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 11 pages on mccann.ca and 5 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 147 characters

    Your meta description is 147 characters: “Canada’s most impactful and effective creative agency. We build enduring brands with Truth Well Told—moving minds, mark…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Home”.

  • Title: 31 characters

    Your title is a healthy 31 characters: “McCann Canada | Truth Well Told”.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://mccann.ca/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix81
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://mccann.ca/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.

1 checks passed
  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (919 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 3 internal pages checked

    We fetched 3 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 3 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 3 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 3 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    5 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix57
  • No call to action on the first screen

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

  • No social proof

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

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No analytics detected

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

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 900 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 900 words of visible text.

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  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Contact Us”.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 4 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    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.

  • 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.

  • 6 other companies contacted

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

Security, domain, email and software versions

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