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phc.edu website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 28 October 202616 issues · 72 checks
This review found 16 issues worth fixing on phc.edu, 5 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: 1 linked page is broken. 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
91AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 100 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 102 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 108 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 115 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 94 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
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Mobile performance score: 100
100/100Your mobile performance score is 100 (desktop: 81). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.1 s
A phone's processor spends 0.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 5 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 1 ms
1 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 94 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 96 ms
96 msReal visitors wait 96 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 0.8 s
0.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 331 ms
331 msReal visitors wait 331 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.8 s
0.8 sThe first text or image appears after 0.8 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Largest Contentful Paint: 0.8 s
0.8 sYour largest element renders in 0.8 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “You’ve been blocked for security reasons”.
Speed Index: 0.8 s
0.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 0.8 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Time to Interactive: 0.8 s
0.8 sThe page is fully interactive after 0.8 s.
Images and page weight
4 images far larger than shown
439 KiB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Connor Blog.jpg at 940 px wide, shown at 72 px. Resized copies would save about 439 KiB.
5 images below the first screen load straight away
5 images further down the page (627 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
1 image in older formats
1 image (33 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 0.00 g of CO₂ per visit
0.00 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.00 g of CO₂e: 0.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Page weight: 2 KiB in 1 request
2 KiBYour homepage downloads 2 KiB in 1 request on a phone: HTML 2 KiB (1). That is a lean page.
Accessibility
Links look like plain text
2 links inside paragraphs rely on colour alone to stand out.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (52 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 52 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
3 form fields without a label
3 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
3 links without text
3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
41 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 7 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Error status code
The page answers with an error status, so search engines may drop it.
Structured data has 2 problems
Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, CollegeOrUniversity, Organization and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Organization: sameAs is not an absolute URL ("hhttps://www.youtube.com/user/PHCvids")”.
255 internal links, 40 external
The homepage links to 255 pages on phc.edu and 40 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 151 characters
Your meta description is 151 characters: “Patrick Henry College stands apart from all other conservative Christian colleges. PHC exists for Christ and for Libert…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Click to learn more about Patrick Henry College's”.
Title: 54 characters
Your title is a healthy 54 characters: “Patrick Henry College | Conservative Christian College”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.phc.edu/.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.phc.edu/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.phc.edu/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
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Organization data: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (763 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 linked page is broken
Your homepage links to https://www.phc.edu/www.phc.edu, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.
1 page without an H1
https://www.phc.edu/learnphc has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 77 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 14 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 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
7 small tap targets
7 of 18 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
6 JavaScript errors while loading
6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
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 opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 519 words of copy
The homepage carries about 519 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “The National Bible Bee Learn More!”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Contact Us” and “Apply”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
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 (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
12 cookies set on arrival
12Opening the homepage sets 12 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
37 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 37 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) 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 phc.edu, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- HubSpot CMS
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- HubSpot
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