scpl.org website review

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

4 images could be 628 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 62. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 119 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 800 ms faster on a phone.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, equalweb.com and Google Fonts and others), adding 245 KiB and 180 ms of main-thread time.

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 154 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

About 83 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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 (2 KiB).

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Real visitors wait 7.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 6.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 6.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 6.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image. Most of its time is resource load delay (6.8 s).

Visually, the page fills in at 10.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.6 s to 7.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 123 ms to 128 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

4 images (752 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.

2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example AUG26STRATPLAN.jpg at 2,560 px wide, shown at 370 px. Resized copies would save about 478 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.39 g of CO₂e: 47.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your title is only 11 characters: “Home - SCPL”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to 49 pages on scpl.org and 53 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description 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://scpl.org/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://scpl.org/interlibrary-loan, https://scpl.org/databases, https://scpl.org/overdrive, https://scpl.org/get-a-library-card, https://scpl.org/children-and-families and https://scpl.org/locations and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://scpl.org/interlibrary-loan, https://scpl.org/databases, https://scpl.org/overdrive, https://scpl.org/get-a-library-card, https://scpl.org/children-and-families and https://scpl.org/locations and 9 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

52 of 72 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

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.

Social proof on the homepage: 3 customer or partner logos. 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 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 279 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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 2 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 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.