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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202637 issues · 85 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on proalt.com, 16 of them high impact, across 85 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.2 s2.2 sMay 2Oct 172.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20263.1 s
May 9, 20263.0 s
May 16, 20263.0 s
May 23, 20263.0 s
May 30, 20262.9 s
Jun 6, 20262.9 s
Jun 13, 20263.0 s
Jun 20, 20262.9 s
Jun 27, 20262.9 s
Jul 4, 20262.9 s
Jul 11, 20262.9 s
Jul 18, 20263.0 s
Jul 25, 20263.0 s
Aug 1, 20263.0 s
Aug 8, 20262.8 s
Aug 15, 20262.8 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.5 s
Sep 5, 20262.6 s
Sep 12, 20262.5 s
Sep 19, 20262.6 s
Sep 26, 20262.8 s
Oct 3, 20262.7 s
Oct 10, 20262.5 s
Oct 17, 20262.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
115 ms86 msMay 2Oct 17108 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 202695 ms
May 9, 202691 ms
May 16, 202689 ms
May 23, 202695 ms
May 30, 202695 ms
Jun 6, 2026100 ms
Jun 13, 202696 ms
Jun 20, 202692 ms
Jun 27, 202694 ms
Jul 4, 202695 ms
Jul 11, 202696 ms
Jul 18, 2026104 ms
Jul 25, 2026106 ms
Aug 1, 2026106 ms
Aug 8, 2026106 ms
Aug 15, 2026112 ms
Aug 22, 2026105 ms
Aug 29, 2026104 ms
Sep 5, 2026104 ms
Sep 12, 2026104 ms
Sep 19, 2026110 ms
Sep 26, 2026112 ms
Oct 3, 2026110 ms
Oct 10, 2026103 ms
Oct 17, 2026108 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 proalt.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. proalt.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. proalt.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. proalt.com at 1.4 s1.4 s
  4. proalt.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  5. proalt.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  6. proalt.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  7. proalt.com at 3.2 s3.2 s
  8. proalt.com at 3.6 s3.6 s

Speed

9 to fix41
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    7.5 s · 1,009 KiB

    About 1,009 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 7.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    3.5 s

    29 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.5 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 41

    41/100

    Your mobile performance score is 41 (desktop: 76). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 4.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Improve image delivery

    1.7 MB

    14 images could be 1.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and Hotjar and others), adding 1.9 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 643 ms

    643 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 643 ms of main-thread work and 697 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    440 ms · 95 KiB

    About 95 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 440 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google CDN adds 386 ms

    386 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 386 ms of main-thread work and 733 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 167 KiB

    10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (167 KiB).

  • 17 long tasks on the main thread

    17 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 212 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 17 KiB

    17 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Legacy JavaScript

    11 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 76 but mobile only 41. 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.

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  • Server response: 17 ms

    17 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 17 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: 10.8 s

    10.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 10.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 24.8 s

    24.8 s

    Your largest element takes 24.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Award-Winning Staffing Agency & Search Firm Since 1998 Hire…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 26.8 s

    26.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 26.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 11.5 s

    11.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors wait 1.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 574 ms

    574 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 574 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 20 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 13% slower for real visitors

    +13%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 108 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    Real visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 108 ms

    108 ms

    Real visitors wait 108 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.01

    0.01

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 20% faster for real visitors

    -20%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.1 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

4 to fix38
  • Page weight: 5.3 MB in 152 requests

    5.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.3 MB in 152 requests on a phone: images 2.3 MB (35), scripts 2.1 MB (60) and other files 364 KiB (20). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images over 500 KB

    3 images weigh 1.5 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (1.9 MB) 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.

  • 4 images below the first screen load straight away

    4 images further down the page (1.9 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.50 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.50 g of CO₂e: 179.6 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 are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8790
  • 14 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (9 elements)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Positive tabindex

    8 elements have a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

  • Frames without titles

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

  • 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.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored (1 element)

    Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 37 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 6 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9294
  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (EmployerAggregateRating, ImageObject, Organization and WebPage) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: sameAs is an empty list”.

  • 12 links with vague text

    12 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 110 internal links, 8 external

    The homepage links to 110 pages on proalt.com and 8 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 135 characters

    Your meta description is 135 characters: “Professional Alternatives is an award-winning recruiting firm leveraging technology and experience to deliver top talen…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Award-Winning Staffing Agency& Search Firm Since 1998”.

  • Title: 64 characters

    Your title is a healthy 64 characters: “Professional Alternatives | Staffing Agency & Recruiting Experts”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • 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.proalt.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

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

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.proalt.com/llms.txt (3 KiB, 33 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 60 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 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 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 6 small tap targets

    6 of 26 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://data.stbuttons.click/data' from origin 'https://www.proalt.com' has been blocked b…”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix75
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • A 14-field form

    Your longest form asks for 14 fields (10 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

  • 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 496 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 496 words of visible text.

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  • 14 calls to action

    The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Request Talent”, “Learn More” and “Talk to a Recruiter”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 10 customer or partner logos, a star rating and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Hotjar.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

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

  • 12 cookies set on arrival

    12

    Opening the homepage sets 12 cookies (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.

  • 31 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 31 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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