rogerbly.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 89. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

1 image could be 15 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

About 38 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.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

Polyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

5 third-party services load with your homepage (WordPress Site Stats, wp.com and WordPress and others), adding 67 KiB and 7 ms of main-thread time.

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.

1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4 KiB).

4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Your largest element takes 3.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Roger Grant Bly Jr. San Diego, CA”.

The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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 further down the page (21 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.09 g of CO₂e: 10.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

6 links inside paragraphs rely on colour alone to stand out.

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.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h4 and h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Roger Grant Bly Jr.”, “Recent Posts” and “Work”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 375 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 9 pages on rogerbly.com and 20 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles) 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://rogerbly.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 3 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C510BAQELtDotDJiFrA/company-logo_200_200/0?e=2127081600&v=beta&t=3VQx2csT7iKTwwcelgTcDx-9CdPO_uHRkSNRLOUm6Hw.

13 of 19 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 400 ()”.

1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

Social proof on the homepage: 3 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

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 257 words of visible text.

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