rachaelgrice.com website review

About 496 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.5 s faster on a phone.

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

Your mobile performance score is 62. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Adobe TypeKit and squarespace-cdn.com), adding 1.5 MB and 564 ms of main-thread time.

Squarespace costs a phone 561 ms of main-thread work and 978 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 89 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.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 330 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Adobe TypeKit costs a phone 3 ms of main-thread work and 413 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

2 images could be 90 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

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

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 CSS.

Your largest element takes 9.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “unsplash-image-JZmyLsmpBOs.jpg”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 9.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 315 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.44 g of CO₂e: 53.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

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

Your title is only 4 characters: “AURA”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Structured data found (LocalBusiness, Organization and WebSite) but with 3 problems, for example “Organization: missing name”.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

The homepage links to 12 pages on rachaelgrice.com and 1 external page.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, url, logo, 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.

There is no https://www.rachaelgrice.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.

https://www.rachaelgrice.com/about, https://www.rachaelgrice.com/contact, https://www.rachaelgrice.com/bookmyspot, https://www.rachaelgrice.com/breathewrite, https://www.rachaelgrice.com/space-focusing and https://www.rachaelgrice.com/extras have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.rachaelgrice.com/contact, https://www.rachaelgrice.com/bookmyspot, https://www.rachaelgrice.com/space-focusing and https://www.rachaelgrice.com/extras 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.

We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

2 of 10 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/sitecss/52019bf7e4b090cd25bf097b/101/4fd11f32c4aad9…”.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

The homepage has only about 21 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.