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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 23 October 202629 issues · 75 checks
This review found 29 issues worth fixing on psmj.com, 11 of them high impact, across 75 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
78CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
6.1 s45 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 6.1 s.
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.1 s · 257 KiBAbout 257 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.1 s · 205 KiB11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (205 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 57
57/100Your mobile performance score is 57 (desktop: 85). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and Clarity and others), adding 838 KiB and 501 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 50 KiBAbout 50 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 253 ms
253 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 253 ms of main-thread work and 333 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.
7 long tasks on the main thread
7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 156 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 85 but mobile only 57. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
Minify CSS
9 KiB9 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Legacy JavaScript
7 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 7 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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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Main-thread work: 1.2 s
A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 605 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 12.8 s
12.8 sYour largest element takes 12.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “AEC AI Acceleration Workshop AI is now the main conversatio…”.
First Contentful Paint: 6.5 s
6.5 sThe first text or image appears after 6.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 12.8 s
12.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 12.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.6 s
6.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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: 172 ms
172 msScripts block the page for only 172 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.52 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.52 g of CO₂e: 62.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.8 MB in 90 requests
1.8 MBYour homepage downloads 1.8 MB in 90 requests on a phone: scripts 809 KiB (27), images 677 KiB (21) and fonts 238 KiB (8). That is a lean page.
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
Required ARIA attributes must be provided (11 elements)
Required ARIA attributes must be provided: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.
27 text elements with low contrast
27 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Interactive controls must not be nested (11 elements)
Interactive controls must not be nested: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (14 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 14 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (11 elements)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
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51 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
6 H1 headlines
There are 6 <h1> headlines (“AEC AI Acceleration Workshop”, “AEC Project Management Bootcamp®” and “2026 Financial Performance Benchmark Results”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
Only 2 internal links
The homepage links to only 2 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.
4 links with vague text
4 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
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Meta description: 138 characters
Your meta description is 138 characters: “PSMJ is the go-to source for powerful training, research, events, and advice for architecture, engineering, and constru…”.
Title: 51 characters
Your title is a healthy 51 characters: “AEC Business Consulting, Training & Research | PSMJ”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.psmj.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.
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.psmj.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
Some text only appears after JavaScript runs
57%The HTML your server sends has 438 of the 765 words a browser shows. AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so they miss the rest.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.psmj.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.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://www.psmj.com/benchmark-results has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page with very little text
https://www.psmj.com/success-stories 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.
2 internal pages checked
We fetched 2 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 2 pages we checked loaded without an error.
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.
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 2 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
5 small tap targets
5 of 23 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
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No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 6 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 765 words of copy
The homepage carries about 765 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: “LEARN MORE”.
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Learn More”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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.
9 cookies set on arrival
9Opening the homepage sets 9 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.
21 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 21 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at psmj.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 29 issues on psmj.com, including 12 speed issues, 4 SEO issues and 2 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
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- Earned media and PR openings
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