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selecttechgroup.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202626 issues · 72 checks
This review found 26 issues worth fixing on selecttechgroup.com, 2 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: 2 text elements with low contrast. 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
92AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Improve image delivery
1.0 MB6 images could be 1.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Render-blocking requests
600 ms4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.
Reduce unused CSS
430 ms · 67 KiBAbout 67 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 430 ms faster on a phone.
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, WordPress and WordPress Site Stats and others), adding 1.8 MB and 92 ms of main-thread time.
WordPress adds 6 ms
6 msWordPress costs a phone 6 ms of main-thread work and 1.6 MB 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.
Reduce unused JavaScript
70 KiBAbout 70 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 52 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
Minify CSS
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Minify JavaScript
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 99
99/100Your mobile performance score is 99. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.3 s
A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 95 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 4.0 s
4.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 4.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 3.5 s
3.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
6 images without width and height
6 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
4 checks passed
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Largest Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sYour largest element renders in 1.4 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “One group. Three specialist businesses. Multiple routes to …”.
Total Blocking Time: 1 ms
1 msScripts block the page for only 1 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
4 images far larger than shown
1.2 MB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 3.jpg.jpg at 2,800 px wide, shown at 296 px. Resized copies would save about 1.2 MB.
Page weight: 2.8 MB in 36 requests
2.8 MBYour homepage downloads 2.8 MB in 36 requests on a phone: images 2.4 MB (22), fonts 204 KiB (2) and scripts 179 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
8 images below the first screen load straight away
8 images further down the page (1.5 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
1 image in older formats
1 image (39 KiB) is 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.
About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.80 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.80 g of CO₂e: 96.4 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.
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 23 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
35 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 40 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 35 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (23 characters)
Your title is only 23 characters: “Select Technology Group”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
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.
49 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 49 pages on selecttechgroup.com and 1 external page.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 108 characters
Your meta description is 108 characters: “An Irish-owned technology business operating across retail, education, business technology and distribution.”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “One group. Three specialist businesses. Multiple routes to market.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://selecttechgroup.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://selecttechgroup.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
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.
No llms.txt
There is no https://selecttechgroup.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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (843 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
3 linked pages hidden from search
https://selecttechgroup.com/news-select-acquires-istore, https://selecttechgroup.com/news-select-acquires-krcs and https://selecttechgroup.com/news-select-acquires-jtrs are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.
10 pages without a meta description
https://selecttechgroup.com/about-us, https://selecttechgroup.com/select, https://selecttechgroup.com/did, https://selecttechgroup.com/blink24, https://selecttechgroup.com/leadership and https://selecttechgroup.com/careers and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
3 pages share a meta description
https://selecttechgroup.com/news-select-acquires-istore, https://selecttechgroup.com/news-select-acquires-krcs and https://selecttechgroup.com/news-select-acquires-jtrs use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
13 internal pages checked
We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 13 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.
Every page has a title
All 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
8 of 9 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 22 trust badges. 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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 812 words of copy
The homepage carries about 812 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn more”.
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Learn more” and “Get in touch”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before 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.
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 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.
6 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 selecttechgroup.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
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
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Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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