newscapepro.com website review

About 359 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

Your mobile performance score is 56 (desktop: 81). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, sqspcdn.com and squarespace-cdn.com), adding 1.2 MB and 559 ms of main-thread time.

Squarespace costs a phone 540 ms of main-thread work and 981 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.

About 133 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 96 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 228 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Desktop scores 81 but mobile only 56. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

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.

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

1 image could be 5 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Your largest element takes 9.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The first text or image appears after 4.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 9.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 276 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.37 g of CO₂e: 44.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Your title is only 16 characters: “Newscape Studios”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: image is not an absolute URL ("//images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a6ceefa655e4e0af47…”.

Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

The homepage links to 20 pages on newscapepro.com and 3 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no https://www.newscapestudios.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.

https://www.newscapestudios.com/home declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

/ and https://www.newscapestudios.com/home all use the title “Newscape Studios”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://www.newscapestudios.com/about, https://www.newscapestudios.com/animation, https://www.newscapestudios.com/machinima, https://www.newscapestudios.com/careers and https://www.newscapestudios.com/home have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.newscapestudios.com/our-work, https://www.newscapestudios.com/about, https://www.newscapestudios.com/animation, https://www.newscapestudios.com/machinima and https://www.newscapestudios.com/careers have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://www.newscapestudios.com/our-work, https://www.newscapestudios.com/animation, https://www.newscapestudios.com/machinima, https://www.newscapestudios.com/careers and https://www.newscapestudios.com/home have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

2 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/6a6ceefa655e4e0af477334b/25/5c5a…”.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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 25 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

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

Opening the homepage sets 3 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 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.