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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 25 October 202625 issues · 76 checks

This review found 25 issues worth fixing on mghus.com, 10 of them high impact, across 76 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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 mghus.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. mghus.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. mghus.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. mghus.com at 1.4 s1.4 s
  4. mghus.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  5. mghus.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  6. mghus.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  7. mghus.com at 3.2 s3.2 s
  8. mghus.com at 3.6 s3.6 s

Speed

4 to fix64
  • Improve image delivery

    2.4 s · 560 KiB

    5 images could be 560 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.5 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.5 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 64

    64/100

    Your mobile performance score is 64 (desktop: 83). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    750 ms · 97 KiB

    About 97 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.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, userway.org and cdn-cookieyes.com and others), adding 478 KiB and 149 ms of main-thread time.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 6 KiB

    6 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 9 long tasks on the main thread

    9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 77 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    11 KiB

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

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    7 KiB

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

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 440 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 12.3 s

    12.3 s

    Your largest element takes 12.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 12.4 s

    12.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 12.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.4 s

    3.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.4 s

    5.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 41 images without width and height

    41 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.

2 checks passed
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 42 ms

    42 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 42 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

3 to fix68
  • Page weight: 2.0 MB in 91 requests

    2.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.0 MB in 91 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (48), scripts 360 KiB (16) and fonts 195 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 11 images below the first screen load straight away

    11 images further down the page (1.1 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (753 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.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.57 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.57 g of CO₂e: 68.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8991
  • 2 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (1 element)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Form elements should have a visible label (1 element)

    Form elements should have a visible label: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)

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

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 2 links without text

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

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 41 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 45 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 7 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10083
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Title is long (70 characters)

    Your title is 70 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “MGH Marketing & Advertising | Maryland-Based National Marketing Agency”.

  • 25 internal links, 12 external

    The homepage links to 25 pages on mghus.com and 12 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 121 characters

    Your meta description is 121 characters: “MGH is a full service marketing agency in Baltimore, leveraging integrated marketing strategies to ensure client succes…”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://mghus.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://mghus.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

3 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 (725 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://mghus.com/llms.txt (2 KiB, 24 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix70
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to https://mghus.com/privacy-policy, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 12 pages without an H1

    https://mghus.com/about-us, https://mghus.com/industries/restaurants, https://mghus.com/industries/franchise, https://mghus.com/industries/cpg, https://mghus.com/solutions and https://mghus.com/insights and 6 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    https://mghus.com/work/project/masons-famous-lobster-rolls took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 13 internal pages checked

    We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 12 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 12 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 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

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix93
  • 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 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 1,027 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,027 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “contact”.

  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 53 testimonial or review blocks and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

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

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Privacy and tracking

  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 11 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: CookieYes

    A consent management tool (CookieYes) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

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CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager

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