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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202629 issues · 85 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on sciensus.com, 6 of them high impact, across 85 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.3 s564 msMay 16Oct 31681 ms
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.1 s
May 23, 20261.2 s
May 30, 20261.2 s
Jun 6, 20261.2 s
Jun 13, 20261.2 s
Jun 20, 20261.2 s
Jun 27, 20261.2 s
Jul 4, 20261.2 s
Jul 11, 20261.1 s
Jul 18, 2026989 ms
Jul 25, 2026955 ms
Aug 1, 2026866 ms
Aug 8, 2026810 ms
Aug 15, 2026786 ms
Aug 22, 2026742 ms
Aug 29, 2026714 ms
Sep 5, 2026714 ms
Sep 12, 2026721 ms
Sep 19, 2026708 ms
Sep 26, 2026711 ms
Oct 3, 2026700 ms
Oct 10, 2026653 ms
Oct 17, 2026668 ms
Oct 24, 2026656 ms
Oct 31, 2026681 ms
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
111 ms95 msMay 16Oct 31104 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202698 ms
May 23, 202697 ms
May 30, 202698 ms
Jun 6, 202697 ms
Jun 13, 2026101 ms
Jun 20, 2026105 ms
Jun 27, 2026104 ms
Jul 4, 2026109 ms
Jul 11, 2026107 ms
Jul 18, 2026104 ms
Jul 25, 2026106 ms
Aug 1, 2026103 ms
Aug 8, 2026103 ms
Aug 15, 2026105 ms
Aug 22, 2026104 ms
Aug 29, 2026104 ms
Sep 5, 2026104 ms
Sep 12, 2026105 ms
Sep 19, 2026105 ms
Sep 26, 2026106 ms
Oct 3, 2026105 ms
Oct 10, 2026104 ms
Oct 17, 2026105 ms
Oct 24, 2026104 ms
Oct 31, 2026104 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of sciensus.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. sciensus.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. sciensus.com at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. sciensus.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  4. sciensus.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  5. sciensus.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  6. sciensus.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  7. sciensus.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  8. sciensus.com at 3.9 s3.9 s

Speed

8 to fix60
  • Improve image delivery

    2.0 s · 440 KiB

    3 images could be 440 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.4 s

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 60

    60/100

    Your mobile performance score is 60. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (posthog.com, Google Tag Manager and Cookiebot and others), adding 808 KiB and 835 ms of main-thread time.

  • posthog.com adds 507 ms

    507 ms

    posthog.com costs a phone 507 ms of main-thread work and 244 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.

  • Main-thread work: 3.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    298 KiB

    About 298 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 2,411 HTML elements

    The page has 2,411 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 12 long tasks on the main thread

    12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 147 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    116 KiB

    5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (116 KiB).

  • Font display

    100 ms

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

  • Reduce unused CSS

    28 KiB

    About 28 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    20 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 20 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    17 KiB

    17 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • 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.

  • Forced reflow

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

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 189 ms

    189 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 189 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    Your largest element takes 7.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.6 s

    8.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.4 s

    5.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 381 ms

    381 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 381 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 98 ms to 104 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

8 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors wait 1.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 102 ms

    102 ms

    Real visitors wait 102 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 627 ms

    627 ms

    Real visitors wait 627 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 42% faster for real visitors

    -42%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 0.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.002

    0.002

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.002, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

3 to fix65
  • Page weight: 2.1 MB in 52 requests

    2.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 52 requests on a phone: images 1.1 MB (15), scripts 622 KiB (11) and fonts 259 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (567 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.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    71 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example 1906251703-1440x525.png at 1,440 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 71 KiB.

  • 2 images below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (121 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.59 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.59 g of CO₂e: 70.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9194
  • 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.

  • Frames without titles

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

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

  • 21 links without text

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

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 20 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 5 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9295
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • 188 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 188 pages on sciensus.com and 4 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 152 characters

    Your meta description is 152 characters: “Sciensus delivers medicines & clinical nursing to patients living with cancer, rare diseases & long-term conditions acr…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Connecting patients with life-changing therapies at home”.

  • Title: 57 characters

    Your title is a healthy 57 characters: “UK's leading provider of clinical care at home | Sciensus”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.sciensus.com/.

  • Structured data in place

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

  • 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.sciensus.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

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

3 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 contact details; sameAs (social profiles) and description would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,585 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://www.sciensus.com/switzerland has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 68 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 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.

  • 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.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Connecting to 'https://use.typekit.net/yan1lkl.css' violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "connect-…”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    16 of 18 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix75
  • 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 phone number on the homepage

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

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: “more than 300,000 patients”. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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.

  • No opening hours

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

  • 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 1,043 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,043 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn more about our services”.

  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Contact us”, “Learn more about our services” and “Learn more”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and PostHog.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

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

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 7 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Cookiebot

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

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Framework
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Analytics
Google Tag Manager | PostHog
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Google Cloud

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