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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202632 issues · 84 checks

This review found 32 issues worth fixing on planbookedu.com, 7 of them high impact, across 84 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.1 s586 msApr 18Aug 15829 ms
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 2026647 ms
Apr 25, 2026640 ms
May 2, 2026658 ms
May 9, 2026656 ms
May 16, 2026655 ms
May 23, 2026689 ms
May 30, 2026688 ms
Jun 6, 2026714 ms
Jun 13, 2026754 ms
Jun 20, 2026719 ms
Jun 27, 2026804 ms
Jul 4, 2026824 ms
Jul 11, 2026893 ms
Jul 18, 20261.0 s
Jul 25, 2026911 ms
Aug 1, 2026929 ms
Aug 8, 2026840 ms
Aug 15, 2026829 ms
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
83 ms59 msMay 16Jul 2580 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202662 ms
May 30, 202663 ms
Jun 6, 202664 ms
Jun 20, 202666 ms
Jun 27, 202671 ms
Jul 4, 202673 ms
Jul 11, 202675 ms
Jul 18, 202678 ms
Jul 25, 202680 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

Full-page screenshot of planbookedu.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. planbookedu.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. planbookedu.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. planbookedu.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. planbookedu.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. planbookedu.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. planbookedu.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. planbookedu.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. planbookedu.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

7 to fix61
  • Render-blocking requests

    5.3 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 5.3 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 61

    61/100

    Your mobile performance score is 61 (desktop: 93). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    450 ms · 239 KiB

    11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (239 KiB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    600 ms · 77 KiB

    About 77 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 21 KiB

    About 21 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.

  • cloudfront.net adds 60 ms

    60 ms

    cloudfront.net costs a phone 60 ms of main-thread work and 397 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.

  • Google Fonts adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    Google Fonts costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 564 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.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (cloudfront.net, Google CDN and Google/Doubleclick Ads and others), adding 1,024 KiB and 117 ms of main-thread time.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 55 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Document request latency

    18 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 93 but mobile only 61. 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    5 KiB

    1 image could be 5 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 0.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 113 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 12 ms

    12 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix100
  • 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.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.9 s

    5.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    Your largest element takes 7.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “The simpler, smarter lesson planner.”.

  • Speed Index: 5.9 s

    5.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 26% slower for real visitors

    +26%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 62 ms to 80 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 30% slower for real visitors

    +30%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.6 s to 0.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 897 ms

    897 ms

    Real visitors wait 897 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Time to Interactive: 7.2 s

    7.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 7.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • 3 images without width and height

    3 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

6 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 80 ms

    80 ms

    Real visitors wait 80 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (38 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 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.29 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.29 g of CO₂e: 35.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • Page weight: 1.0 MB in 26 requests

    1.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.0 MB in 26 requests on a phone: fonts 561 KiB (3), images 239 KiB (12) and scripts 183 KiB (5). That is a lean page.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8888
  • 25 text elements with low contrast

    25 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • <html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)

    <html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (11 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • 9 form fields without a label

    9 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • No page language

    The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 12 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 25 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 29 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 25 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10087
  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Meta description is long (222 characters)

    Your meta description is 222 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://www.planbookedu.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • Open Graph partly set

    Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 14 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 14 pages on planbookedu.com and 6 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “The simpler, smarter lesson planner.”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “PlanbookEdu - Free Online Lesson Planbook Software for Teachers”.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: WebSite.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.planbookedu.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.

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 (727 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix93
  • 7 pages share a meta description

    https://www.planbookedu.com/pages/privacy, https://www.planbookedu.com/users/login, https://www.planbookedu.com/users/register, https://www.planbookedu.com/group, https://www.planbookedu.com/pages/group-discounts and https://www.planbookedu.com/pages/about-us and 1 other use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 2 pages without an H1

    https://www.planbookedu.com/pages/privacy and https://www.planbookedu.com/pages/terms have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    https://www.planbookedu.com/users/login and https://www.planbookedu.com/users/register have 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.

  • 7 internal pages checked

    We fetched 7 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 7 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 7 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 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9691
  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://d3d6rq1sb1fwon.cloudfront.net/ccss/cookie_consent_1791205600.css' from origin 'htt…”.

  • 3 distorted images

    3 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    8 of 8 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 18 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • About 619 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 619 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Sign up free” and “Start planning free”.

  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Sign up free” and “Start planning free”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads (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.

  • 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.

  • 7 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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