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pelagobio.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 24 October 202624 issues · 72 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on pelagobio.com, 8 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
77CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.6 s
1.2 s
1.7 s
2.3 s
2.9 s
3.5 s
4.1 s
4.6 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.3 s · 1.2 MBAbout 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.3 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.1 s · 221 KiB7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (221 KiB).
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, YouTube and Hubspot and others), adding 2.6 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 57
57/100Your mobile performance score is 57 (desktop: 75). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 138 KiBAbout 138 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.
Google CDN adds 454 ms
454 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 454 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB 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.
YouTube adds 425 ms
425 msYouTube costs a phone 425 ms of main-thread work and 966 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.
Main-thread work: 3.4 s
A phone's processor spends 3.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
12 long tasks on the main thread
12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 138 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.
Legacy JavaScript
4 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 4 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
1 checks passed
Server response: 143 ms
143 msYour server sent the HTML in 143 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 10.8 s
10.8 sYour largest element takes 10.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 17.9 s
17.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 17.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 7.0 s
7.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 7.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 437 ms
437 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 437 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
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
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.007
0.007The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.007, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.3 MB in 63 requests
3.3 MBYour homepage downloads 3.3 MB in 63 requests on a phone: scripts 2.3 MB (28), other files 359 KiB (9) and images 176 KiB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (20 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.93 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.93 g of CO₂e: 111.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 11 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 2 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at pelagobio.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
79 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 79 pages on pelagobio.com and 4 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 144 characters
Your meta description is 144 characters: “Pelago Bioscience delivers CETSA®-powered target engagement assays to validate drug–target interactions in live cells t…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Target Engagement Assay Drug Discovery”.
Title: 58 characters
Your title is a healthy 58 characters: “Target Engagement Assay Drug Discovery | Pelago Bioscience”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.pelagobio.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Article, ImageObject, MedicalOrganization, Organization and Person.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.pelagobio.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.pelagobio.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
There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (617 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 45 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
5 small tap targets
5 of 12 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
5 third-party cookies
5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
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 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 direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
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.
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 478 words of copy
The homepage carries about 478 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Contact us” and “Learn more about target discovery”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge and “350 + Customers”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads 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.
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
13 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 pelagobio.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
- Tailwind CSS
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Company
- Founded
- 2013
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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