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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 25 October 202635 issues · 83 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on ppigroup.com, 14 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

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  4. ppigroup.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  5. ppigroup.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  6. ppigroup.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  7. ppigroup.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  8. ppigroup.com at 3.9 s3.9 s

Speed

11 to fix59
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.7 s · 773 KiB

    About 773 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.5 s

    20 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.5 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    1.1 s · 220 KiB

    About 220 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and Vimeo and others), adding 8.3 MB and 450 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    900 ms · 235 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (235 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 59

    59/100

    Your mobile performance score is 59 (desktop: 93). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Vimeo adds 100 ms

    100 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 100 ms of main-thread work and 7.1 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 997 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 119 ms

    119 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 119 ms of main-thread work and 307 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 CDN adds 102 ms

    102 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 102 ms of main-thread work and 430 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 Maps adds 97 ms

    97 ms

    Google Maps costs a phone 97 ms of main-thread work and 391 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.

  • 8 long tasks on the main thread

    8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 79 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).

  • Improve image delivery

    37 KiB

    2 images could be 37 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 93 but mobile only 59. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    10 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Minify CSS

    10 KiB

    10 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix66
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 13.6 s

    13.6 s

    Your largest element takes 13.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “  CUSTOM PUBLISHING A team of professional editors, write…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 19.3 s

    19.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 19.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.3 s

    10.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • Total Blocking Time: 91 ms

    91 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 91 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.028

    0.028

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.028, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 9.9 MB in 141 requests

    9.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 9.9 MB in 141 requests on a phone: other files 6.7 MB (24), scripts 1.6 MB (40) and images 960 KiB (35). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 2.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.81 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.81 g of CO₂e: 336.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • 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

5 to fixGoogle 9392
  • 8 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 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.

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  • 44 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: 44 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

5 to fixGoogle 9272
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 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 favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 17 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 17 pages on ppigroup.com and 6 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Title: 40 characters

    Your title is a healthy 40 characters: “PPI Group – We connect people and brands”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.ppigroup.com/.

  • 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.ppigroup.com/wp-sitemap.xml.

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.ppigroup.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.

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

Other pages

3 to fix65
  • 2 linked pages are broken

    Your homepage links to https://www.ppigroup.com/custompublishing and https://www.ppigroup.com/sellingatsea, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

  • 10 pages without a meta description

    https://www.ppigroup.com/digital-marketing, https://www.ppigroup.com/video, https://www.ppigroup.com/custom-publishing, https://www.ppigroup.com/selling-at-sea, https://www.ppigroup.com/about-us and https://www.ppigroup.com/contactus and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 8 pages without an H1

    https://www.ppigroup.com/digital-marketing, https://www.ppigroup.com/video, https://www.ppigroup.com/custom-publishing, https://www.ppigroup.com/about-us, https://www.ppigroup.com/contactus and https://www.ppigroup.com/revenueprograms and 2 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    https://www.ppigroup.com/contactus and https://www.ppigroup.com/newsletter 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 10 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 5894
  • 3 third-party cookies

    3 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    14 of 14 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix93
  • 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.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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 493 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 493 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact”.

  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Contact Us”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 44 testimonial or review blocks, 7 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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.

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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.

  • 17 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 17 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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