ratedpeople.com website review

About 396 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.

Your mobile performance score is 63 (desktop: 85). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Optanon and checkatrade.com and others), adding 698 KiB and 556 ms of main-thread time.

4 images could be 142 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (73 KiB).

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 433 ms of main-thread work and 468 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 22 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.

9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 145 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

Your largest element takes 11.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “✧ Trusted by over 4 million homeowners Trusted by homeowner…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 328 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 161 ms to 137 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.41 g of CO₂e: 48.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), 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.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 529 pages on ratedpeople.com and 5 external pages.

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

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 198 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

25 of 39 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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 610 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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 6 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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