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penningtonco.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202619 issues · 69 checks
This review found 19 issues worth fixing on penningtonco.com, 8 of them high impact, across 69 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
83BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.2 s
1.6 s
2.0 s
2.4 s
2.8 s
3.2 s
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.9 s · 410 KiB31 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (410 KiB).
Improve image delivery
1.7 s · 314 KiB5 images could be 314 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.6 s · 299 KiBAbout 299 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.3 s10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.
Mobile performance score: 58
58/100Your mobile performance score is 58 (desktop: 93). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Google Tag Manager adds 189 ms
189 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 189 ms of main-thread work and 333 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.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and Usercentrics CMP and others), adding 879 KiB and 392 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 30 KiBAbout 30 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 23 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 88 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 93 but mobile only 58. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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.
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Main-thread work: 1.1 s
A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 548 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 8 ms
8 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 12.9 s
12.9 sYour largest element takes 12.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Homepage_4b”.
First Contentful Paint: 6.1 s
6.1 sThe first text or image appears after 6.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 13.0 s
13.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 13.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 7.3 s
7.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 7.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
7 images without width and height
7 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
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.
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Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 26 ms
26 msScripts block the page for only 26 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.6 MB in 79 requests
2.6 MBYour homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 79 requests on a phone: images 1.5 MB (16), scripts 857 KiB (30) and fonts 110 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
2 images far larger than shown
138 KiB2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Homepage_4b.jpg at 1,380 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 138 KiB.
1 image in older formats
1 image (280 KiB) is 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.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.73 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.73 g of CO₂e: 87.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 15 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
44 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 0 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
30 internal links, 10 external
The homepage links to 30 pages on penningtonco.com and 10 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 146 characters
Your meta description is 146 characters: “Fraternity and sorority fundraising, alumni engagement, and campaign counsel. Pennington & Company has guided more than…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Turn alumni pride into funded capital campaigns”.
Title: 56 characters
Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “Pennington & Company | Fraternity & Sorority Fundraising”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.penningtonco.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.penningtonco.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
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.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.penningtonco.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.
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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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (447 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without an H1
https://www.penningtonco.com/campaigns has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
https://www.penningtonco.com/contact has 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.
12 internal pages checked
We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 12 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 12 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 12 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
8 of 9 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 11 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 521 words of copy
The homepage carries about 521 words of visible text.
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Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact”.
8 calls to action
The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Learn more→” and “Get a Consultation”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Meta Pixel.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Usercentrics) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
10 cookies set on arrival
10Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
25 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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Consent tool: Usercentrics
A consent management tool (Usercentrics) loads with the page.
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 penningtonco.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
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