porchpals.com website review

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, rise-ai.com and cloudfront.net and others), adding 39.2 MB and 150 ms of main-thread time.

Shopify costs a phone 19 ms of main-thread work and 38.8 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.

About 184 KiB 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 62. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 images could be 89 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.

6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (106 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 54 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 144 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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

Your largest element takes 24.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 24.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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.

Your homepage downloads 45.1 MB in 187 requests on a phone: media 43.2 MB (7), scripts 747 KiB (65) and other files 634 KiB (62). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image (79 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 12.78 g of CO₂e: 1534.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

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

The homepage links to 16 pages on porchpals.com and 4 external pages.

https://porchpals.com/products/rise-ai-giftcard 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.

We fetched 3 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

3 of 7 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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.

The homepage carries about 587 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Klaviyo (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.

Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.