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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202638 issues · 83 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on scspa.com, 15 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
2.3 s1.6 sMay 9Oct 242.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.3 s
May 16, 20262.2 s
May 23, 20262.2 s
May 30, 20262.2 s
Jun 6, 20262.1 s
Jun 13, 20262.1 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20261.9 s
Jul 4, 20261.8 s
Jul 11, 20261.7 s
Jul 18, 20261.7 s
Jul 25, 20261.8 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20262.1 s
Aug 15, 20262.2 s
Aug 22, 20262.2 s
Aug 29, 20262.2 s
Sep 5, 20262.1 s
Sep 12, 20262.1 s
Sep 19, 20262.1 s
Sep 26, 20262.2 s
Oct 3, 20262.1 s
Oct 10, 20262.1 s
Oct 17, 20262.1 s
Oct 24, 20262.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
121 ms82 msMay 9Oct 24111 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 202688 ms
May 16, 202689 ms
May 23, 202687 ms
May 30, 202686 ms
Jun 6, 2026103 ms
Jun 13, 2026108 ms
Jun 20, 2026111 ms
Jun 27, 2026111 ms
Jul 4, 2026109 ms
Jul 11, 2026101 ms
Jul 18, 202698 ms
Jul 25, 2026102 ms
Aug 1, 2026104 ms
Aug 8, 2026112 ms
Aug 15, 2026115 ms
Aug 22, 2026116 ms
Aug 29, 2026114 ms
Sep 5, 2026112 ms
Sep 12, 2026113 ms
Sep 19, 2026113 ms
Sep 26, 2026110 ms
Oct 3, 2026108 ms
Oct 10, 2026105 ms
Oct 17, 2026105 ms
Oct 24, 2026111 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 scspa.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. scspa.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. scspa.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. scspa.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. scspa.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. scspa.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. scspa.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. scspa.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. scspa.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

9 to fix41
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    21.7 s · 9.5 MB

    26 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (9.5 MB).

  • Improve image delivery

    3.1 s · 4.0 MB

    17 images could be 4.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.8 s · 970 KiB

    About 970 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.6 s

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

  • Mobile performance score: 41

    41/100

    Your mobile performance score is 41. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and Facebook and others), adding 1.7 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 443 ms

    443 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 443 ms of main-thread work and 635 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.

  • Google CDN adds 262 ms

    262 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 262 ms of main-thread work and 742 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: 2.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    160 ms · 80 KiB

    About 80 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 160 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 57 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 57 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 12 long tasks on the main thread

    12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 184 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    100 ms

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

  • Minify CSS

    20 ms · 9 KiB

    9 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 15 ms

    15 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 15 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

11 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 31.8 s

    31.8 s

    Your largest element takes 31.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 36.7 s

    36.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 36.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.421

    0.421

    The layout shifts by 0.421 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.18

    0.18

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.18 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 22% slower for real visitors

    +22%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 88 ms to 111 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s

    2.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 230 ms

    230 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 230 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 12 images without width and height

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

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -5%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    Real visitors wait 2.0 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 FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Images and page weight

2 to fix63
  • Page weight: 12.7 MB in 102 requests

    12.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 12.7 MB in 102 requests on a phone: images 10.3 MB (35), scripts 1.8 MB (30) and other files 363 KiB (16). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 12 images below the first screen load straight away

    12 images further down the page (1.0 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 3.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.59 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.59 g of CO₂e: 430.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 8190
  • 6 buttons without a name

    6 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 5 text elements with low contrast

    5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 2 images without alt text

    2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • 2 form fields without a label

    2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Headings skip levels

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

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  • 37 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 41 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10085
  • Title is short (25 characters)

    Your title is only 25 characters: “Home - SC Ports Authority”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • 6 H1 headlines

    There are 6 <h1> headlines (“Safety is our No. 1 Priority”, “Innovative Logistics Solutions” and “Proactively Investing in Infrastructure for your …”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No social preview image

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

  • 293 internal links, 47 external

    The homepage links to 293 pages on scspa.com and 47 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 126 characters

    Your meta description is 126 characters: “The SC Ports Authority official website where you'll find everything from news, press releases, resources, schedules an…”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://scspa.com/.

  • Structured data in place

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

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://scspa.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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.

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,160 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix88
  • 7 pages without a meta description

    /safety-first, /advisories/attention-motor-carriers-msc-nct-empty-return, /toolkit/cargo-and-equipment-inquiries, /toolkit, /toolkit/customer-access-form and /toolkit/motor-carriers/empty-inventory-by-terminal and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    /toolkit/motor-carriers and /toolkit/ocean-carriers use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 page without an H1

    /safety-first has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 97 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • 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 9693
  • 9 small tap targets

    9 of 35 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix75
  • No call to action on the first screen

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

  • 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 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 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 406 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 406 words of visible text.

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  • 26 calls to action

    The homepage has 26 calls to action, for example “Vessel Schedule”, “Client Advisory Signup” and “Ro-Ro & Breakbulk Rate Request”.

  • 1 short form

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 3 customer or partner logos and 2 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and LinkedIn Insight.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Meta Pixel and 1 more (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.

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    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.

  • 22 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 22 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Imperva

Company

Founded
1942
Headquarters
Charleston

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