neurostar.com website review

10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

Your mobile performance score is 84 (desktop: 87). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Accessibe Accessibility Overlay, Google Tag Manager and cdn-cookieyes.com and others), adding 517 KiB and 229 ms of main-thread time.

About 30 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

About 234 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 132 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

29 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (50 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.

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.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 3.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The layout shifts by 0.134 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

Your largest element takes 2.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Home”. Most of its time is resource load delay (2.8 s).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.3 s to 3.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.32 g of CO₂e: 38.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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

1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

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

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

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 should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Proven depression relief for adolescents.”, “Tap into a new possibility” and “NeuroStar TMS is now FDA-Cleared for OCD and Anxi…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 161 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

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

The homepage links to 52 pages on neurostar.com and 9 external pages.

/ and https://neurostar.com/what-is-neurostar-advanced-therapy all use the title “TMS Treatment For Depression | Advanced Therapy | NeuroStar TMS”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://neurostar.com/enter-zip-code, https://neurostar.com/adolescent-depression, https://neurostar.com/is-neurostar-safe-proven, https://neurostar.com/is-neurostar-right-for-me, https://neurostar.com/insurance and https://neurostar.com/real-neurostar-stories and 5 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://neurostar.com/enter-zip-code took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 of 24 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 “An error has occurred. [ File: https://neurostar.com/wp-content/plugins/gravityformsrecaptcha/js/frontend.min.js?ver=2.…”.

Social proof on the homepage: “over 250,000 patients”. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

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 1,317 words of visible text.

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

Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.