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reefdesigns.co website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202637 issues · 72 checks
This review found 37 issues worth fixing on reefdesigns.co, 10 of them high impact, across 72 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
67DClosest competitors among Squarespace websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.8 s · 328 KiBAbout 328 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.0 s1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.0 s.
Improve image delivery
750 ms · 728 KiB6 images could be 728 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 67
67/100Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Adobe TypeKit and squarespace-cdn.com), adding 1.9 MB and 300 ms of main-thread time.
Squarespace adds 299 ms
299 msSquarespace costs a phone 299 ms of main-thread work and 774 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 55 KiBAbout 55 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.
squarespace-cdn.com adds 0 ms
0 mssquarespace-cdn.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 1,001 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.
Legacy JavaScript
250 ms · 33 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 151 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.9 s
A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 346 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 13 ms
13 msYour server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.6 s
7.6 sYour largest element takes 7.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 8.9 s
8.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 8.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
33 images without width and height
33 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Speed Index: 4.5 s
4.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.115
0.115The layout shifts by 0.115 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s
2.0 sThe first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 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.
1 checks passed
Total Blocking Time: 106 ms
106 msScripts block the page for only 106 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
1 image far larger than shown
130 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example RD+logo+hor.png at 1,500 px wide, shown at 195 px. Resized copies would save about 130 KiB.
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.53 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.53 g of CO₂e: 64.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Page weight: 1.9 MB in 45 requests
1.9 MBYour homepage downloads 1.9 MB in 45 requests on a phone: images 1,003 KiB (9), scripts 717 KiB (23) and fonts 123 KiB (7). That is a lean page.
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.
Accessibility
Images must have alternative text (3 elements)
Images must have alternative text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.
30 text elements with low contrast
30 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 (35 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 35 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.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)
Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
1 checks passed
21 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 28 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 21 passed and 7 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (12 characters)
Your title is only 12 characters: “Reef Designs”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
32 H1 headlines
There are 32 <h1> headlines (“woodside inn resto bar”, “YPO” and “lamborghini”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: image is not an absolute URL ("//images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aa0eeeb9d5abb43bab…”.
3 links crawlers can't follow
3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
39 internal links, 2 external
The homepage links to 39 pages on reefdesigns.co and 2 external pages.
3 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.reefdesigns.co/.
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://www.reefdesigns.co/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.reefdesigns.co/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.
1 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.
Other pages
4 pages without a meta description
https://www.reefdesigns.co/about, https://www.reefdesigns.co/testimonials, https://www.reefdesigns.co/ypo and https://www.reefdesigns.co/hands-onn have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages without an H1
https://www.reefdesigns.co/about and https://www.reefdesigns.co/testimonials have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
13 pages with very little text
https://www.reefdesigns.co/new-gallery-1, https://www.reefdesigns.co/ypo, https://www.reefdesigns.co/lamborghini-giro-2018, https://www.reefdesigns.co/libertina, https://www.reefdesigns.co/leopold-cafe and https://www.reefdesigns.co/hands-onn and 7 others 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.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 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.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
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 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/sitecss/5aa0eeeb9d5abb43bab9f281/100/4fba57fde4b0f7…”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
10 of 11 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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.
No calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
Only about 65 words
The homepage has only about 65 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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.
Privacy and tracking
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 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.
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.
1 checks passed
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
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at reefdesigns.co, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- Squarespace
- Hosting
- Squarespace
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