mortgagedepot.com website review

32 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 7.0 s.

About 260 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

About 136 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 56 (desktop: 94). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, cloudflare.com and Google Fonts and others), adding 405 KiB and 251 ms of main-thread time.

2 images could be 47 KiB 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.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 102 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 27 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Desktop scores 94 but mobile only 56. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

7 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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.

The first text or image appears after 9.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 15.9 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 15.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 85 ms to 95 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 54 requests on a phone: fonts 648 KiB (6), scripts 617 KiB (25) and other files 610 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.68 g of CO₂e: 81.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Some list items are not inside a list.

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

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 20 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

2 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.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“A Unique Approach to Mortgage Financing” and “Request Free Consultation”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 201 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

The homepage links to 108 pages on mortgagedepot.com and 24 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, 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.

There is no https://mortgagedepot.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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 76 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://mortgagedepot.com/.

11 of 20 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “%c%d font-size:0;color:transparent NaN”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

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

Your longest form asks for 8 fields (4 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

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 694 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 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 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.