pcrb.com website review

54 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.5 MB).

17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.7 s.

About 298 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 43 (desktop: 94). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 4.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 3,269 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 360 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 471 ms of main-thread work and 288 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.

18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 297 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

6 images could be 251 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

2 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics), adding 289 KiB and 471 ms of main-thread time.

The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

Desktop scores 94 but mobile only 43. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

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 first text or image appears after 5.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 5.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Enabling Informed Decisions for Workers’ Comp Insurers”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 10.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 919 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

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 2.1 MB in 58 requests on a phone: scripts 802 KiB (23), images 482 KiB (19) and stylesheets 426 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example image-222.jpg.webp at 1,920 px wide, shown at 360 px. Resized copies would save about 67 KiB.

5 images further down the page (306 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

3 images (188 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.59 g of CO₂e: 71.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

The homepage links to 201 pages on pcrb.com and 54 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://pcrb.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://pcrb.com/careers and https://pcrb.com/about-us/workers-compensation-symposium all use the title “Join the PCRB Team - Workers Comp Careers | PCRB”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://pcrb.com/forms, https://pcrb.com/category/filings, https://pcrb.com/manuals, https://pcrb.com/products, https://pcrb.com/classification and https://pcrb.com/rating-plans and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://pcrb.com/careers and https://pcrb.com/about-us/workers-compensation-symposium use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 54 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

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 741 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 2 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 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.