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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 202645 issues · 86 checks

This review found 45 issues worth fixing on monitoraudio.com, 16 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 25.7 MB in 102 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 monitoraudio.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. monitoraudio.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  2. monitoraudio.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  3. monitoraudio.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  4. monitoraudio.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  5. monitoraudio.com at 4.3 s4.3 s
  6. monitoraudio.com at 5.2 s5.2 s
  7. monitoraudio.com at 6.0 s6.0 s
  8. monitoraudio.com at 6.9 s6.9 s

Speed

8 to fix40
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.1 s · 1.5 MB

    72 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.5 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.6 s

    12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 40

    40/100

    Your mobile performance score is 40 (desktop: 57). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 11.8 MB

    23 images could be 11.8 MB 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.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    750 ms · 442 KiB

    About 442 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.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Freshchat, fw-cdn.com and Amazon Web Services and others), adding 1.2 MB and 374 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    400 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 400 ms).

  • Freshchat adds 291 ms

    291 ms

    Freshchat costs a phone 291 ms of main-thread work and 870 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 63 KiB

    About 63 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.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 185 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    5 KiB

    5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Minify CSS

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 898 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 127 ms

    127 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 127 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

12 to fix33
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.65

    0.65

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.65 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.4 s

    6.4 s

    Your largest element takes 6.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “This website is using cookies to provide the best browsing …”. Most of its time is element render delay (3.8 s).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.584

    0.584

    The layout shifts by 0.584 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Time to Interactive: 13.0 s

    13.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 13.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.4 s

    8.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s

    2.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 32 images without width and height

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 218 ms

    218 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 218 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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  • Real-user INP: 123 ms

    123 ms

    Real visitors wait 123 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 25.7 MB in 102 requests

    25.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 25.7 MB in 102 requests on a phone: images 12.9 MB (45), media 11.4 MB (2) and scripts 1.1 MB (25). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 14 images over 500 KB

    14 images weigh 10.2 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 19 images far larger than shown

    1.7 MB

    19 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example ma-about-1.1000x1000.jpg at 1,000 px wide, shown at 330 px. Resized copies would save about 1.7 MB.

  • 26 images in older formats

    26 images (12.8 MB) 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.

  • 21 images below the first screen load straight away

    21 images further down the page (12.4 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 7.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    7.28 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 7.28 g of CO₂e: 873.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9394
  • ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (1 element)

    ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (17 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 17 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 5 links without text

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

  • 2 form fields without a label

    2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 40 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 5 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 9293
  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“The Most Capable Silver Series Ever” and “More Refined, More Considered”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • 73 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 73 pages on monitoraudio.com and 6 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 156 characters

    Your meta description is 156 characters: “Monitor Audio is a British manufacturer of Hi-Fi speaker systems, offering quality stereo home cinema systems, multi-ro…”.

  • Title: 54 characters

    Your title is a healthy 54 characters: “Monitor Audio | Hi-Fi, Cinema & Architectural Speakers”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/us/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Corporation.

  • 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 and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

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

AI search readiness

100
4 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.

  • Organization data: 6 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,242 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.monitoraudio.com/llms.txt (11 KiB, 88 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix70
  • 1 page without a title

    https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/speaker-solutions has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 2 pages without a meta description

    https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/speaker-solutions and https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/high-fidelity-speaker-ranges have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/high-fidelity-speaker-ranges, whose canonical is https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/us/high-fidelity-speaker-ranges. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/speaker-solutions has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    https://www.monitoraudio.com/en/us/creator-series-in-wall-subwoofers-amplification took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 44 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 7791
  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • Browser-reported issues

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

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    10 of 11 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

6 to fix56
  • 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.

  • 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 phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 7 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • A 12-field form

    Your longest form asks for 12 fields (0 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

  • No direct contact details

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

  • No opening hours

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

  • 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 661 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 661 words of visible text.

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  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Where To Buy”, “Contact Us” and “Subscribe to our newsletter?”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Clarity and LinkedIn Insight.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads LinkedIn Insight (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.

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 9 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at monitoraudio.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity

Company

Founded
1972
Headquarters
Rayleigh

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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