morrisonhershfield.com website review

7 images could be 737 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 400 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 75 (desktop: 80). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 62 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.

1 third-party service load with your homepage (mPulse), adding 58 KiB and 24 ms of main-thread time.

1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6 KiB).

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

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.

Your largest element takes 4.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “A mine with mountains in the background”. Most of its time is element render delay (3.0 s).

Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 2.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 136 ms to 165 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The first text or image appears after 2.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 4.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example mining-economy-creativity-pillar.jpg at 2,140 px wide, shown at 351 px. Resized copies would save about 145 KiB.

2 images (250 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.36 g of CO₂e: 43.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Some list items are not inside a list.

6 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

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

3 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

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

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

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Users should be able to zoom and scale the text up to 500%: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

Your title is only 7 characters: “Stantec”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Structured data found (Organization and WebPage) but with 1 problem, for example “WebPage: url is not an absolute URL ("https://www.stantec.com/content/stantec/en.html")”.

No XML sitemap at https://stantec.com/en/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

The homepage links to only 2 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

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

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

A phone browser shows 827 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 0. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://www.stantec.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://www.stantec.com/en/offices.html has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://www.stantec.com/en/offices.html, whose canonical is https://www.stantec.com/en/offices/office-finder. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://www.stantec.com/en/offices.html has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 1 page linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

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

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

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

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.

The homepage carries about 827 words of visible text.

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