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sciensus.com website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
86BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 989 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 955 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 866 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 810 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 786 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 742 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 714 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 714 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 721 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 708 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 711 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 700 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 653 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 668 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 656 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 681 ms |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 98 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 97 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 107 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 104 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.5 s
1.0 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.4 s
2.9 s
3.4 s
3.9 s
Speed
Improve image delivery
2.0 s · 440 KiB3 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 s5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 60
60/100Your 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 msposthog.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 KiBAbout 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 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (116 KiB).
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
Reduce unused CSS
28 KiBAbout 28 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
20 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 20 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Duplicated JavaScript
17 KiB17 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 msYour server sent the HTML in 189 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.1 s
7.1 sYour 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 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 8.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 5.4 s
5.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s
2.6 sThe first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 381 ms
381 msScripts 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 sReal 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 msReal visitors wait 102 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 627 ms
627 msReal 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
0.002The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.002, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.1 MB in 52 requests
2.1 MBYour 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 KiB1 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 gBy 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
1Before 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
1Opening 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
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at sciensus.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- Bootstrap
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager | PostHog
- Hosting
- Google Cloud
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