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piccadilly.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202631 issues · 75 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on piccadilly.com, 8 of them high impact, across 75 checks. The most urgent: reduce initial server response time. 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
81BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.6 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 113 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 113 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 115 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.9 s
1.9 s
2.8 s
3.7 s
4.7 s
5.6 s
6.5 s
7.5 s
Speed
Reduce initial server response time
3.0 sReduce initial server response time. Google estimates savings of 3.0 s on a phone.
Document request latency
3.0 sThe HTML itself could arrive about 3.0 s sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.
Server response: 3.1 s
3.1 sYour server takes 3.1 s to send the HTML. Google recommends under 600 ms; everything else waits for it.
Mobile performance score: 69
69/100Your mobile performance score is 69. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
Improve image delivery
387 KiB2 images could be 387 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 24 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 72 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused JavaScript
22 KiBAbout 22 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
1 third-party service on the page
1 third-party service load with your homepage (Cloudflare), adding 10 KiB and 8 ms of main-thread time.
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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
4 KiB1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4 KiB).
1 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.9 s
A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 497 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.4 s
6.4 sYour largest element takes 6.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Delicious food displayed in the hero section”. Most of its time is time to first byte (3.1 s).
Speed Index: 9.5 s
9.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 33% slower for real visitors
+33%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 1.8 s
1.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 841 ms
841 msReal visitors wait 841 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Time to Interactive: 6.6 s
6.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 6.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 113 ms to 115 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user LCP: 2.1 s
2.1 sReal visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 111 ms
111 msReal visitors wait 111 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.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001
0.001The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sThe first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 16 ms
16 msScripts block the page for only 16 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
image is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
2 images far larger than shown
392 KiB2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example image at 3,840 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 392 KiB.
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.54 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.54 g of CO₂e: 65.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.9 MB in 56 requests
1.9 MBYour homepage downloads 1.9 MB in 56 requests on a phone: images 1.1 MB (8), fonts 478 KiB (6) and scripts 308 KiB (23). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Accessibility
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 9 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
31 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 31 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 31 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
Title is short (10 characters)
Your title is only 10 characters: “Piccadilly”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
Meta description is short (14 characters)
Your meta description is only 14 characters: “Piccadilly Web”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Welcome to piccadilly - Order whatever you'd like…” and “Start your order”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.piccadilly.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
22 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 22 pages on piccadilly.com and 7 external pages.
1 checks passed
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
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 /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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (249 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 linked page is broken
Your homepage links to /food-service, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.
12 pages share a title
/, /rewards, /group-dining, /foodservice, /locations and /career and 6 others all use the title “Piccadilly”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
11 pages share a meta description
/rewards, /group-dining, /foodservice, /locations, /career and /contact and 5 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
2 pages without an H1
/promotions and /event-catering have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
2 pages slow to respond
/promotions and /event-catering took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
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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Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 11 pages that loaded have a meta description.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 11 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
17 of 18 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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.
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 279 words of copy
The homepage carries about 279 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Sign in or join Piccadilly” and “Order Now”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Order Now”, “Order Catering” and “Go to Contact pageContact”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
1 cookie set on arrival
1Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (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.
1 other company contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 piccadilly.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
- Next.js
- Hosting
- Vercel
Company
- Founded
- 1944
- Headquarters
- Baton Rouge
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