patchandco.com.au website review

11 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

Google CDN costs a phone 1.1 s of main-thread work and 743 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

A phone's processor spends 5.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Other Google APIs/SDKs and Google Fonts), adding 876 KiB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 66. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 590 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 397 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

28 images could be 257 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 300 ms).

The page has 1,811 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 56 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 14.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.2 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 2.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Patch & Co”.

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.

Your homepage downloads 3.2 MB in 117 requests on a phone: images 1.3 MB (68), scripts 1.3 MB (27) and other files 357 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.90 g of CO₂e: 108.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one main 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.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

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 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is 181 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.

No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

The homepage links to 168 pages on patchandco.com.au and 0 external pages.

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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 80 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

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.

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 815 words of visible text.

Opening the homepage sets 7 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 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.