pixelmatters.com website review

About 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 60 (desktop: 69). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

6 images could be 144 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Cookiebot and IPONWEB and others), adding 4.4 MB and 242 ms of main-thread time.

vercel-storage.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 3.8 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.

A phone's processor spends 3.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

About 39 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (252 KiB).

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 150 ms of main-thread work and 308 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 73 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 128 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

8 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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.

Real visitors wait 5.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 2.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 11.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 17.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 7.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 183 ms to 264 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.7 s to 4.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 305 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Your homepage downloads 6.5 MB in 128 requests on a phone: media 3.8 MB (4), scripts 2.1 MB (47) and images 264 KiB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.85 g of CO₂e: 221.7 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: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

5 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

The homepage links to 26 pages on pixelmatters.com and 5 external pages.

/work, /about-us, /services/design, /services/engineering, /what-we-do and /solutions/web-apps and 2 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 189 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.