ncseaa.edu website review

23 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.2 s.

3 images could be 398 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.

About 254 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

About 154 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 54. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 439 ms of main-thread work and 475 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.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Siteimprove and JSDelivr CDN and others), adding 713 KiB and 461 ms of main-thread time.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 237 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

2 files are 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.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Your largest element takes 12.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The first text or image appears after 5.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 12.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 257 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

3 images 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 78 ms to 84 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 1.2 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example kids_brick_wall_2400.jpg at 2,400 px wide, shown at 270 px. Resized copies would save about 370 KiB.

1 image further down the page (325 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

1 image (82 KiB) is 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 0.52 g of CO₂e: 62.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Links must have discernible text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 13 characters: “Home - NCSEAA”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

6 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 56 pages on ncseaa.edu and 10 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User) and Perplexity (PerplexityBot). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

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.

There is no https://www.ncseaa.edu/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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

https://www.ncseaa.edu/psr, https://www.ncseaa.edu/about/investor-information, https://www.ncseaa.edu/about, https://www.ncseaa.edu/about/senior-leadership, https://www.ncseaa.edu/about/board-of-directors and https://www.ncseaa.edu/about/annual-reports and 5 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 of 15 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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

The homepage has only about 195 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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 5 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 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.