sprucetech.com website review

About 550 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.0 s faster on a phone.

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.4 s.

Your mobile performance score is 44. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

About 100 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Hubspot and others), adding 1.3 MB and 822 ms of main-thread time.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (94 KiB).

Google CDN costs a phone 404 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 263 ms of main-thread work and 283 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 250 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

1 image could be 4 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

The first text or image appears after 9.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 12.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Harnessing Expertise, Empowering Innovation. Explore Our Ca…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 13.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 490 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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.

Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 41 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (13), fonts 383 KiB (5) and other files 354 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.62 g of CO₂e: 74.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is only 64 characters: “Spruce Technology - Harnessing Expertise, Empowering Innovation.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Spruce Technology Homepage” and “Harnessing Expertise, Empowering Innovation.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

9 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 66 pages on sprucetech.com 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.

There is no https://www.sprucetech.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.

https://www.sprucetech.com/capabilities, https://www.sprucetech.com/industries, https://www.sprucetech.com/success-stories, https://www.sprucetech.com/insights, https://www.sprucetech.com/careers and https://www.sprucetech.com/about and 9 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://www.sprucetech.com/contact-us took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 41 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

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 719 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and HubSpot (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) 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 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.