spiralscout.com website review

30 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

Your mobile performance score is 68 (desktop: 92). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 90 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

2 images could be 194 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Cookie-Script.com and Hubspot), adding 336 KiB and 118 ms of main-thread time.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 64 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 22 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 30 ms faster on a phone.

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

1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1 KiB).

Your largest element takes 5.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Most software agencies build tools that work until they don…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.6 s).

The first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 5.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Build-business-tools-faster.jpg.webp at 4,480 px wide, shown at 358 px. Resized copies would save about 114 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.41 g of CO₂e: 48.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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.

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

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Structured data found (FAQPage, Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: missing name”.

The homepage links to 119 pages on spiralscout.com and 12 external pages.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 58 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

9 of 30 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

The homepage has only about 135 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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 7 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 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.