patrickknowlton.com website review

About 489 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.4 s faster on a phone.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

Your mobile performance score is 68. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Adobe TypeKit and squarespace-cdn.com), adding 1.7 MB and 505 ms of main-thread time.

Squarespace costs a phone 500 ms of main-thread work and 990 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.

squarespace-cdn.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 602 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 55 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

4 images could be 244 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 218 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Your largest element takes 8.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

Visually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 217 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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 0.48 g of CO₂e: 58.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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

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

There are 36 <h1> headlines (“Patrick Knowlton”, “Click Baby Click!” and “Cheetos Museum”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

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

3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 42 pages on patrickknowlton.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.patrickknowlton.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.patrickknowlton.com/graphic-design, https://www.patrickknowlton.com/about, https://www.patrickknowlton.com/936691967557, https://www.patrickknowlton.com/884688365675 and https://www.patrickknowlton.com/944612688034 have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.patrickknowlton.com/graphic-design, https://www.patrickknowlton.com/iii, https://www.patrickknowlton.com/new-gallery-54, https://www.patrickknowlton.com/new-gallery-2, https://www.patrickknowlton.com/865004006353 and https://www.patrickknowlton.com/936691967557 and 5 others 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 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 37 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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.

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.

The homepage carries about 1,778 words of visible text.