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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 19 October 202630 issues · 76 checks

This review found 30 issues worth fixing on newson.io, 10 of them high impact, across 76 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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 newson.io (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. newson.io at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. newson.io at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. newson.io at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. newson.io at 1.7 s1.7 s
  5. newson.io at 2.1 s2.1 s
  6. newson.io at 2.5 s2.5 s
  7. newson.io at 2.9 s2.9 s
  8. newson.io at 3.4 s3.4 s

Speed

6 to fix67
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    4.3 s · 2.1 MB

    60 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.1 MB).

  • Improve image delivery

    2.4 s · 1.2 MB

    10 images could be 1.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.6 s

    23 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.6 s.

  • 4,524 HTML elements

    The page has 4,524 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 67

    67/100

    Your mobile performance score is 67 (desktop: 91). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 44 KiB

    About 44 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.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Intercom, senja.io and Google CDN and others), adding 567 KiB and 241 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    227 KiB

    About 227 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Font display

    150 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 148 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 690 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 8 ms

    8 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.7 s

    7.7 s

    Your largest element takes 7.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.5 s

    9.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Total Blocking Time: 100 ms

    100 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 100 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

3 to fix69
  • Page weight: 2.7 MB in 88 requests

    2.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.7 MB in 88 requests on a phone: images 1.9 MB (26), scripts 521 KiB (28) and fonts 189 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    hero-img-1.png is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (697 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 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.77 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.77 g of CO₂e: 92.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 8894
  • Unlabelled dropdowns

    3 dropdowns have no label.

  • 41 text elements with low contrast

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

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

  • 10 form fields without a label

    10 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 2 links without text

    2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h6 and h2 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 45 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 50 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 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 8581
  • No meta description

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

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No social preview image

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

  • 3 links with vague text

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

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 42 internal links, 27 external

    The homepage links to 42 pages on newson.io and 27 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Premium Business Development Done for you.”.

  • Title: 45 characters

    Your title is a healthy 45 characters: “Newson – Premium Business Development Service”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.newson.io/.

  • 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.newson.io/wp-sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://www.newson.io/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.

2 checks passed
  • 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 (3,521 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 13 pages without a meta description

    https://www.newson.io/plans, https://www.newson.io/software, https://www.newson.io/leadgeneration, https://www.newson.io/appointmentsetting, https://www.newson.io/salesclosing and https://www.newson.io/whitelabel and 7 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://www.newson.io/case-studies has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 13 internal pages checked

    We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 13 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.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 2 small tap targets

    2 of 9 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Identifier 'dropdown' has already been declared”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix81
  • 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 phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • No analytics detected

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

  • 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 map or directions link

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

  • About 963 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 963 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Sign Up” and “Watch Demo”.

  • 27 calls to action

    The homepage has 27 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Sign Up” and “Book A Demo”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: a star rating and “3000+ companies”.

  • Direct contact links

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

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Security, domain, email and software versions

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