scapestudio.com website review

32 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (28.8 MB).

7 images could be 1.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.4 s.

Your mobile performance score is 47 (desktop: 94). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

About 196 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 910 ms faster on a phone.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 635 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 548 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

33 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

About 11 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).

2 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics), adding 157 KiB and 63 ms of main-thread time.

Desktop scores 94 but mobile only 47. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

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 29.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 29.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 12.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 691 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 87 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 35.0 MB in 36 requests on a phone: media 28.1 MB (3), images 6.3 MB (16) and scripts 396 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

7 images further down the page (495 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 9.91 g of CO₂e: 1189.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

Your title is only 5 characters: “SCAPE”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

No XML sitemap at https://www.scapestudio.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

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

The homepage links to 28 pages on scapestudio.com and 3 external pages.

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.

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

https://www.scapestudio.com/news/scape-receives-2025-landscape-architecture-firm-award-from-american-society-of-landscape-architects and https://www.scapestudio.com/news/kate-orff-named-to-time-100-most-influential-people-in-the-world have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.scapestudio.com/about, https://www.scapestudio.com/services, https://www.scapestudio.com/team, https://www.scapestudio.com/careers, https://www.scapestudio.com/news and https://www.scapestudio.com/projects use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://www.scapestudio.com/projects and https://www.scapestudio.com/impact have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://www.scapestudio.com/careers and https://www.scapestudio.com/impact 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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 16 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

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.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

Social proof on the homepage: 9 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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.

The homepage carries about 270 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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