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ortusclub.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202615 issues · 73 checks
This review found 15 issues worth fixing on ortusclub.com, 4 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
87BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 109 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 117 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 115 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 119 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Mobile performance score: 85
85/100Your mobile performance score is 85 (desktop: 96). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
750 ms · 81 KiBAbout 81 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 124 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused JavaScript
21 KiBAbout 21 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Improve image delivery
17 KiB2 images could be 17 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (ortus.club and Google Fonts), adding 103 KiB and 0 ms of main-thread time.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.7 s
A phone's processor spends 0.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 80 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 5 ms
5 msYour server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
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.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.3 s
4.3 sYour largest element takes 4.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Real-user CLS: 0.12
0.12For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 887 ms
887 msReal visitors wait 887 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Time to Interactive: 4.3 s
4.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 4.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 13% slower for real visitors
+13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 119 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 111 ms
111 msReal visitors wait 111 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user FCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 67% faster for real visitors
-67%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.7 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.002
0.002The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.002, good is under 0.1).
Speed Index: 1.2 s
1.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 1.2 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 55 ms
55 msScripts block the page for only 55 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit
0.21 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.21 g of CO₂e: 24.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 751 KiB in 59 requests
751 KiBYour homepage downloads 751 KiB in 59 requests on a phone: images 300 KiB (29), fonts 215 KiB (4) and stylesheets 125 KiB (18). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Form elements should have a visible label (4 elements)
Form elements should have a visible label: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (27 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 27 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
13 form fields without a label
13 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
12 links without text
12 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 64 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
47 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 4 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
89 internal links, 38 external
The homepage links to 89 pages on ortusclub.com and 38 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 146 characters
Your meta description is 146 characters: “The Ortus Club curates networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities for the world’s most influential executives. We h…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “The Ortus Club curates networking and knowledge-sharing opportunities for the world’s most influential executives.”.
Title: 39 characters
Your title is a healthy 39 characters: “The Ortus Club - Events Worth Attending”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.ortusclub.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
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.ortusclub.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.ortusclub.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.
3 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.
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (872 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 linked pages hidden from search
https://www.ortusclub.com/team and https://www.ortusclub.com/newsletter are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 43 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
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.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
28 of 28 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a map but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
A 9-field form
Your longest form asks for 9 fields (3 required). Every extra field lowers completion.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 376 words of copy
The homepage carries about 376 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Subscribe to our Newsletter”, “CONTACT US” and “BOOK A MEETING”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 48 customer or partner logos, 1 trust badge and “over 400 brands”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Privacy and tracking
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.
2 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 2 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
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at ortusclub.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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