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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202646 issues · 92 checks
This review found 46 issues worth fixing on pureseo.com, 21 of them high impact, across 92 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
58FClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideShow as table
| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.0 s |
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
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.1 s · 1.7 MBAbout 1.7 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
2.9 s23 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.9 s.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.1 s · 510 KiB22 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (510 KiB).
Reduce unused CSS
1.2 s · 141 KiBAbout 141 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 30
30/100Your mobile performance score is 30 (desktop: 63). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 8.1 s
A phone's processor spends 8.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Hubspot and others), adding 3.1 MB and 2.9 s of main-thread time.
Google CDN adds 956 ms
956 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 956 ms of main-thread work and 1.5 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 823 ms
823 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 823 ms of main-thread work and 699 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.
Hubspot adds 454 ms
454 msHubspot costs a phone 454 ms of main-thread work and 315 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 361 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Minify JavaScript
300 ms · 61 KiB61 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 65 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 65 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 46 KiB2 images could be 46 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Minify CSS
13 KiB13 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 63 but mobile only 30. 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
Real-user TTFB: 2.0 s
2.0 sReal visitors wait 2.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 12.1 s
12.1 sYour largest element takes 12.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Your Partner in Digital Growth For over 16 years, Pure SEO …”.
Time to Interactive: 29.0 s
29.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 29.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 2.1 s
2.1 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 2.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 10.1 s
10.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 10.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 4.5 s
4.5 sThe first text or image appears after 4.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 2.8 s
2.8 sReal visitors wait 2.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.12
0.12For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 2.7 s
2.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
3 images without width and height
3 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
2 checks passed
Largest content (LCP) got 15% faster for real visitors
-15%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.8 s to 3.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.2 MB in 169 requests
5.2 MBYour homepage downloads 5.2 MB in 169 requests on a phone: scripts 3.3 MB (66), other files 724 KiB (32) and images 510 KiB (34). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit
1.47 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.47 g of CO₂e: 176.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
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
Orphan list items
Some list items are not inside a list.
12 tap targets too small
12 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
34 images without alt text
34 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (10 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
9 links without text
9 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
6 form fields without a label
6 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h4 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
41 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 9 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (67 characters)
Your title is 67 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Digital Marketing Agency - SEO, SEM, Social Media & more | Pure SEO”.
8 links with vague text
8 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
2 links crawlers can't follow
2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
113 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 113 pages on pureseo.com and 7 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 136 characters
Your meta description is 136 characters: “Pure SEO is a Google partnered digital marketing agency. Our award-winning team delivers SEO, SEM, CRO, Social Media, o…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Your Partner in Digital Growth”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://pureseo.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization, Place and PostalAddress.
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://pureseo.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://pureseo.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.
3 checks passed
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.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (796 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
3 pages share a title
/, https://pureseo.com/ph and https://pureseo.com/sg all use the title “Digital Marketing Agency - SEO, SEM, Social Media & more | Pure SEO”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
2 pages share a meta description
https://pureseo.com/ph and https://pureseo.com/sg use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
3 pages slow to respond
https://pureseo.com/au, https://pureseo.com/cn and https://pureseo.com/gb took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 47 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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 broken images
2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://pureseo.com/.
3 small tap targets
3 of 9 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Invalid or unexpected token”.
1 distorted image
1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.
9 low-resolution images
9 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 20 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
A 9-field form
Your longest form asks for 9 fields (5 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 503 words of copy
The homepage carries about 503 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Get A Free SEO Report” and “Get a free SEO check”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.
Privacy and tracking
9 trackers load before any consent
9Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 4 mores (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.
19 cookies set on arrival
19Opening the homepage sets 19 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.
42 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 42 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 pureseo.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
- Vue.js
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
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