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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202626 issues · 72 checks

This review found 26 issues worth fixing on recpower.com, 13 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of recpower.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. recpower.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. recpower.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. recpower.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. recpower.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. recpower.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. recpower.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. recpower.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. recpower.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

4 to fix67
  • Improve image delivery

    4.2 s · 2.5 MB

    8 images could be 2.5 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.1 s

    14 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.1 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 67

    67/100

    Your mobile performance score is 67 (desktop: 91). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    450 ms · 66 KiB

    About 66 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2 third-party services on the page

    2 third-party services load with your homepage (iubenda and Adobe TypeKit), adding 242 KiB and 202 ms of main-thread time.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 21 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 15 KiB

    4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (15 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    10 KiB

    About 10 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 0.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 309 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    Your largest element takes 10.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 4.1 s

    4.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 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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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

6 to fix33
  • 1 image over 500 KB

    home-hero-v2-bg-scaled.jpg weighs 746 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    590 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example home-hero-v2-bg-scaled.jpg at 2,560 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 590 KiB.

  • Page weight: 3.6 MB in 45 requests

    3.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 45 requests on a phone: images 3.2 MB (13), scripts 270 KiB (18) and fonts 114 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    home-hero-v2-bg-scaled.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (811 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (440 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.02 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.02 g of CO₂e: 121.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 8994
  • 2 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Hidden but focusable

    1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation (1 element)

    Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 21 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 43 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 8583
  • No page title

    Your page has no <title>, so Google has to invent the blue link in search results.

  • 2 links with vague text

    2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 49 internal links, 1 external

    The homepage links to 49 pages on recpower.com and 1 external page.

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  • Meta description: 128 characters

    Your meta description is 128 characters: “REC Power is an independent power producer that finances, owns, and operates distributed power systems across the Unite…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Power, on your terms”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://recpower.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://recpower.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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 (406 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://recpower.com/llms.txt (4 KiB, 29 links, though it should open with a “# Title” line), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix69
  • 15 pages without a title

    https://recpower.com/about/news/adapture-renewables-and-rec-power-announce-completion-of-transaction-for-68-mw-operating-dg-solar-portfolio, https://recpower.com/solutions, https://recpower.com/onsite-solar, https://recpower.com/energy-storage, https://recpower.com/fuel-cells and https://recpower.com/microgrids and 9 others have no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://recpower.com/about/news/adapture-renewables-and-rec-power-announce-completion-of-transaction-for-68-mw-operating-dg-solar-portfolio has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    https://recpower.com/about-rec-power and https://recpower.com/about use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://recpower.com/about, whose canonical is https://recpower.com/about-rec-power. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page with very little text

    https://recpower.com/privacy-policy 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.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 3 small tap targets

    3 of 14 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • 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

2 to fix79
  • No social proof

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

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 508 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 508 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” and “Learn more and customize”.

  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Learn more”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and HubSpot.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Privacy and tracking

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 5 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

2 checks passed
  • Consent tool: iubenda

    A consent management tool (iubenda) loads with the page.

  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Security, domain, email and software versions

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