practiceplan.co.uk website review

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

Your mobile performance score is 86 (desktop: 71). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Optanon and others), adding 1.3 MB and 561 ms of main-thread time.

About 613 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

7 images could be 514 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 326 ms of main-thread work and 525 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.

About 65 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.

Vimeo costs a phone 37 ms of main-thread work and 523 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.

6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 135 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (113 KiB).

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

Polyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

The page becomes fully interactive after 12.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We are the UK's number one provider of practice-branded den…”.

The first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 181 ms to 170 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 74 requests on a phone: scripts 1.3 MB (22), images 1.1 MB (20) and fonts 59 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images (109 KiB) are 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 0.73 g of CO₂e: 88.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

2 frames have no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what they contain.

ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

<svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

Structured data found (LocalBusiness, Organization, SiteNavigationElement and WebPage) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: missing @context (expected "https://schema.org")”.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 33 pages on practiceplan.co.uk and 11 external pages.

There is no https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/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.

https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/slt-about-us and https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/website-terms-of-use are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/financial-planning-for-dentists and https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/about all use the title “Dental Plan Administration Experts | Supporting Your Practice”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/mediahub and https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/about/testimonials have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/financial-planning-for-dentists and https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/about use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/financial-planning-for-dentists, whose canonical is https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/wesleyan. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/contact, https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/team, https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/mediahub, https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/groups/dental-groups and https://www.practiceplan.co.uk/slt-about-us have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=187241917&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=e26b84b7-984f-4108-a74a-c493a2811038&bo=1&sid=43ee41b0cf6111f1a1a7fd87705cb933&vid=43ee78e0cf6111f192bae77fa989971f&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=9.

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

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

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

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

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

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

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 341 words of visible text.

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

Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.