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smart-it-services.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202633 issues · 79 checks
This review found 33 issues worth fixing on smart-it-services.com, 11 of them high impact, across 79 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
77CClosest 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
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.5 s · 3.3 MB37 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.3 MB).
Render-blocking requests
1.4 s13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 78
78/100Your mobile performance score is 78. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
200 ms · 623 KiB8 images could be 623 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
160 ms · 30 KiBAbout 30 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.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, FontAwesome CDN and Google Fonts), adding 194 KiB and 17 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
20 KiBAbout 20 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.3 s
A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 62 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
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.1 s
5.1 sYour largest element takes 5.1 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: 5.1 s
5.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 5.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.2 s
2.2 sThe first text or image appears after 2.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
15 images without width and height
15 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.
3 checks passed
Speed Index: 3.0 s
3.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.0 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
1 image over 500 KB
StockSnap_TGPED1NJPA-cropped.jpg weighs 551 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
Page weight: 3.6 MB in 46 requests
3.6 MBYour homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 46 requests on a phone: images 3.3 MB (23), fonts 149 KiB (4) and scripts 94 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
3 images in older formats
3 images (690 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
419 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example StockSnap_TGPED1NJPA-cropped.jpg at 2,200 px wide, shown at 360 px. Resized copies would save about 419 KiB.
3 images below the first screen load straight away
3 images further down the page (690 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
1.01 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.01 g of CO₂e: 120.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
10 text elements with low contrast
10 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
6 tap targets too small
6 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Links must have discernible text (3 elements)
Links must have discernible text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (12 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
4 form fields without a label
4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 18 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
37 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (15 characters)
Your title is only 15 characters: “Smart Cloud LLC”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
4 H1 headlines
There are 4 <h1> headlines (“Houston’s Technology Partner...”, “Smart Virtual Office...” and “SmartCloud OwnCloud...”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
31 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 31 pages on smart-it-services.com and 0 external pages.
3 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.smartcloudllc.com/.
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.smartcloudllc.com/wp-sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
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.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.smartcloudllc.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 (418 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
3 linked pages are broken
Your homepage links to https://www.smartcloudllc.com/is-cloud-backup-taking-over-the-backup-industry, https://www.smartcloudllc.com/emails-attachments-naughty-or-nice and https://www.smartcloudllc.com/smartcloud-announcement-new-dc, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.
5 pages without a meta description
https://www.smartcloudllc.com/smart-services, https://www.smartcloudllc.com/portal, https://www.smartcloudllc.com/why-us, https://www.smartcloudllc.com/support and https://www.smartcloudllc.com/whats-new have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page with very little text
https://www.smartcloudllc.com/portal has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
1 page slow to respond
https://www.smartcloudllc.com/support took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
8 internal pages checked
We fetched 8 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
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 5 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 broken images
2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.smartcloudllc.com/.
6 small tap targets
6 of 14 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 low-resolution images
2 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
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
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
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 analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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.
About 393 words of copy
The homepage carries about 393 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “GET IN TOUCH”.
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Get In Touch” and “Contact us today for a free consultation”.
1 short form
A short form (5 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 4 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
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.
4 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 smart-it-services.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2019.
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Hosting
- SmartCloud, LLC
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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