recesscreative.com website review

About 558 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.5 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 39. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Vimeo and Hubspot and others), adding 1.3 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (187 KiB).

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 618 ms of main-thread work and 363 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 images could be 178 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

Vimeo costs a phone 354 ms of main-thread work and 601 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.

A phone's processor spends 3.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 282 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 68 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Your largest element takes 12.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Recess is a full-service creative and technology agency tha…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 13.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.2 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.1 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.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Recess Rebrand Homepage Banner Image copy.png.webp at 1,500 px wide, shown at 360 px. Resized copies would save about 32 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.48 g of CO₂e: 57.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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

The homepage links to 21 pages on recesscreative.com and 6 external pages.

/contact 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.

We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “%c%d font-size:0;color:transparent NaN”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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

The homepage has only about 239 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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and HubSpot (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 15 cookies, 8 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.