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msdprojectclear.org website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202632 issues · 85 checks
This review found 32 issues worth fixing on msdprojectclear.org, 17 of them high impact, across 85 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
83BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 99 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 98 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 99 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 103 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
8.5 s · 22.8 MB57 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (22.8 MB).
Render-blocking requests
7.2 s19 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 7.2 s.
Reduce unused CSS
3.2 s · 674 KiBAbout 674 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.2 s faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.7 s · 559 KiBAbout 559 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 57
57/100Your mobile performance score is 57 (desktop: 71). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
550 ms · 366 KiB6 images could be 366 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 550 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
350 ms · 42 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 42 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 181 ms
181 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 181 ms of main-thread work and 411 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.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, userway.org and ShareThis and others), adding 797 KiB and 282 ms of main-thread time.
Minify CSS
150 ms · 36 KiB36 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Document request latency
126 KiBThe HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 65 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Minify JavaScript
29 KiB29 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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: 1.3 s
A phone's processor spends 1.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 545 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 41 ms
41 msYour server sent the HTML in 41 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
First Contentful Paint: 8.7 s
8.7 sThe first text or image appears after 8.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 16.9 s
16.9 sYour largest element takes 16.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Aerial view of an industrial area featuring large storage t…”.
Time to Interactive: 17.0 s
17.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 17.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.7 s
8.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Real-user TTFB: 825 ms
825 msReal visitors wait 825 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 99 ms to 103 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 12% slower for real visitors
+12%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
6 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 102 ms
102 msReal visitors wait 102 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.10
0.10For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.10 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.014
0.014The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.014, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 28 ms
28 msScripts block the page for only 28 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 23.7 MB in 105 requests
23.7 MBYour homepage downloads 23.7 MB in 105 requests on a phone: images 21.5 MB (24), scripts 1.2 MB (37) and stylesheets 725 KiB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
3 images over 500 KB
3 images weigh 20.8 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
4 images far larger than shown
17.4 MB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Parking-Lot.png at 3,541 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 17.4 MB.
5 images in older formats
5 images (21.1 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.
About 6.7 g of CO₂ per visit
6.71 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 6.71 g of CO₂e: 805.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
4 tap targets too small
4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
ARIA commands must have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA commands must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 20 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 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
14 links with vague text
14 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
250 internal links, 25 external
The homepage links to 250 pages on msdprojectclear.org and 25 external pages.
6 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “MSD Project Clear — St. Louis Sewer Infrastructure Improvements”.
Title: 49 characters
Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “Home Page - Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://msdprojectclear.org/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://msdprojectclear.org/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://msdprojectclear.org/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.
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.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,200 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 pages without a meta description
https://msdprojectclear.org/newsroom, https://msdprojectclear.org/events, https://msdprojectclear.org/careers, https://msdprojectclear.org/customers/problems-tips/report-issue, https://msdprojectclear.org/contact-us and https://msdprojectclear.org/customers/billing/payment-options and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 158 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
16 small tap targets
16 of 42 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Unexpected end of input”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 3 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 828 words of copy
The homepage carries about 828 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: “LEARN MORE”.
11 calls to action
The homepage has 11 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Contact Us Online” and “Request Development Review”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 10 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and The Trade Desk (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.
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 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.
16 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 16 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 msdprojectclear.org, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Rackspace
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