simplex.ca website review

62 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.6 MB).

About 699 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 66. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, smooch.io and Didomi and others), adding 1.4 MB and 785 ms of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 574 ms of main-thread work and 832 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.

18 images could be 571 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

About 81 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.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 350 ms.

A phone's processor spends 2.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 1,886 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

smooch.io costs a phone 83 ms of main-thread work and 296 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.

10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 167 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

The page becomes fully interactive after 14.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 3.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Rent your tools and equipment online”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.4 s).

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 426 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 112 ms to 121 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.9 s to 0.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.7 MB in 95 requests on a phone: images 4.8 MB (52), scripts 1.6 MB (19) and fonts 115 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

11 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example paysagement-bucheron-tronconneuse-simplex.webp at 1,920 px wide, shown at 195 px. Resized copies would save about 1.9 MB.

4 images (675 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.90 g of CO₂e: 227.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

ARIA dialog and alertdialog nodes should have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 32 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

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

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

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

11 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 253 pages on simplex.ca and 4 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

https://www.simplex.ca/fr declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 103 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

14 of 62 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Didomi - Default language 'fr' must be in the list of enabled languages”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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 896 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). A consent tool (Didomi) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.