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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202633 issues · 82 checks

This review found 33 issues worth fixing on msigeneral.com, 9 of them high impact, across 82 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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 msigeneral.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. msigeneral.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. msigeneral.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. msigeneral.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  4. msigeneral.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  5. msigeneral.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  6. msigeneral.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  7. msigeneral.com at 3.8 s3.8 s
  8. msigeneral.com at 4.4 s4.4 s

Speed

8 to fix45
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.1 s · 468 KiB

    About 468 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.9 s

    32 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 45

    45/100

    Your mobile performance score is 45 (desktop: 72). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Improve image delivery

    700 ms · 3.4 MB

    71 images could be 3.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 700 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    850 ms · 286 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (286 KiB).

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Hubspot and others), adding 865 KiB and 656 ms of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 382 ms

    382 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 382 ms of main-thread work and 497 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    250 ms · 33 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • 13 long tasks on the main thread

    13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 201 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 15 KiB

    15 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    70 ms · 27 KiB

    About 27 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 70 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 72 but mobile only 45. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Server response: 13 ms

    13 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix53
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 20.6 s

    20.6 s

    Your largest element takes 20.6 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: 21.9 s

    21.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 21.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 9.8 s

    9.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 9.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.6 s

    4.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 71 images without width and height

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 474 ms

    474 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 474 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 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.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.005

    0.005

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.005, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

3 to fix43
  • Page weight: 5.5 MB in 159 requests

    5.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.5 MB in 159 requests on a phone: images 4.1 MB (82), scripts 1.1 MB (36) and HTML 182 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 24 images far larger than shown

    1.3 MB

    24 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example DH-Industries-Logo.jpg at 1,000 px wide, shown at 195 px. Resized copies would save about 1.3 MB.

  • 39 images below the first screen load straight away

    39 images further down the page (2.6 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (119 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 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.57 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.57 g of CO₂e: 187.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9396
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (21 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 21 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

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

  • The skip-link target should exist and be focusable (1 element)

    The skip-link target should exist and be focusable: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Headings skip levels

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 94 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 47 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: 47 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 8590
  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Designing Excellence.” and “Building Trust.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • 4 links crawlers can't follow

    4 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 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.

  • 172 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 172 pages on msigeneral.com and 4 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 124 characters

    Your meta description is 124 characters: “MSI General has provided leading design, build, and remodel services for businesses, schools, and municipalities since …”.

  • Title: 62 characters

    Your title is a healthy 62 characters: “MSI General - Design Build Construction Services | MSI General”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization, 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 and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

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

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), 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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://msigeneral.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.

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  • 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 (3,333 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix86
  • 2 pages share a title

    https://msigeneral.com/project-portfolio/awards-recognitions and https://msigeneral.com/visions-built/awards-recognitions all use the title “Awards & Recognitions | MSI General”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    https://msigeneral.com/project-portfolio/awards-recognitions and https://msigeneral.com/visions-built/awards-recognitions use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://msigeneral.com/visions-built/awards-recognitions, whose canonical is https://msigeneral.com/project-portfolio/awards-recognitions. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 37 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 9285
  • 4 small tap targets

    4 of 11 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 “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'msie')”.

  • 3 distorted images

    3 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix94
  • 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 map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • About 3,122 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 3,122 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact Us About Your Vision”.

  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Contact Us About Your Vision” and “Learn More”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 247 testimonial or review blocks and 5 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and HubSpot.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

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

  • 9 cookies set on arrival

    9

    Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 18 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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  • Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner

    A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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