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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202628 issues · 71 checks

This review found 28 issues worth fixing on ncg-global.com, 7 of them high impact, across 71 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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 ncg-global.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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  2. ncg-global.com at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. ncg-global.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  4. ncg-global.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  5. ncg-global.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  6. ncg-global.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  7. ncg-global.com at 3.5 s3.5 s
  8. ncg-global.com at 4.0 s4.0 s

Speed

9 to fix68
  • Improve image delivery

    1.8 s · 811 KiB

    13 images could be 811 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.9 s

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

  • Mobile performance score: 68

    68/100

    Your mobile performance score is 68. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Google Tag Manager and Hubspot and others), adding 2.3 MB and 725 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    650 ms · 274 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (274 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    600 ms · 131 KiB

    About 131 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Squarespace adds 483 ms

    483 ms

    Squarespace costs a phone 483 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB 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 JavaScript

    558 KiB

    About 558 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • squarespace-cdn.com adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    squarespace-cdn.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 563 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 108 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 108 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 204 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.

  • Forced reflow

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

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  • Main-thread work: 1.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 805 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 76 ms

    76 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 76 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix69
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.3 s

    6.3 s

    Your largest element takes 6.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “The global technology partner for real estate”.

  • Time to Interactive: 13.7 s

    13.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 13.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.7 s

    5.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • 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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  • Total Blocking Time: 123 ms

    123 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 123 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.011

    0.011

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.011, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

4 to fix58
  • Page weight: 2.8 MB in 98 requests

    2.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.8 MB in 98 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (52), images 1,023 KiB (20) and stylesheets 167 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 2 images far larger than shown

    424 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Canva-logo.png at 3,840 px wide, shown at 142 px. Resized copies would save about 424 KiB.

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (494 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.

  • 4 images below the first screen load straight away

    4 images further down the page (516 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.79 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.79 g of CO₂e: 95.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

2 to fixGoogle 8895
  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • 38 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 41 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 38 passed and 3 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9286
  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“The global technology partner for real estate” and “Book a consultation”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • Meta description is long (181 characters)

    Your meta description is 181 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 2 problems

    Structured data found (LocalBusiness and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “WebSite: image is not an absolute URL ("//images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69306dc86878283b9ab…”.

  • 72 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 72 pages on ncg-global.com and 5 external pages.

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  • Title: 40 characters

    Your title is a healthy 40 characters: “NCG Global | Empower Your Building Today”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.ncg-global.com/.

  • 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.ncg-global.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (0 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, url, logo, 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://www.ncg-global.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 (387 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://www.ncg-global.com/case-studies has 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 21 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.

  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/versioned-site-css/69306dc86878283b9abd149b/56/5c5a…”.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    6 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix86
  • 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.

  • No opening hours

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

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 305 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 305 words of visible text.

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  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Talk To Us” and “Talk to our team”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 3 testimonial or review blocks, 13 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 1 email link.

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

  • LocalBusiness structured data

    Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and HubSpot (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.

  • 14 cookies set on arrival

    14

    Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies, 5 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.

  • 25 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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