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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 20269 issues · 67 checks

This review found 9 issues worth fixing on startupformulas.com, 2 of them high impact, across 67 checks. The most urgent: no social proof. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of startupformulas.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. startupformulas.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. startupformulas.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. startupformulas.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. startupformulas.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  5. startupformulas.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  6. startupformulas.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  7. startupformulas.com at 3.1 s3.1 s
  8. startupformulas.com at 3.5 s3.5 s

Speed

2 to fix71
  • Mobile performance score: 71

    71/100

    Your mobile performance score is 71. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    450 ms · 76 KiB

    About 76 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, openai.com and Google Analytics), adding 223 KiB and 158 ms of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    173 KiB

    1 image could be 173 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 12 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 94 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    24 KiB

    1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (24 KiB).

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 387 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix69
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.4 s

    6.4 s

    Your largest element takes 6.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Two men talking across a wooden counter in an auto shop, wi…”.

  • Speed Index: 5.8 s

    5.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 6.5 s. Good is under 3.8 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.

3 checks passed
  • First Contentful Paint: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.6 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 67 ms

    67 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 67 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix90
  • 1 image far larger than shown

    94 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example hero.jpg at 1,280 px wide, shown at 322 px. Resized copies would save about 94 KiB.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (218 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 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.24 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.24 g of CO₂e: 28.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 863 KiB in 33 requests

    863 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 863 KiB in 33 requests on a phone: scripts 404 KiB (16), images 226 KiB (6) and fonts 194 KiB (4). That is a lean page.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

Accessibility

Google 100100
  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 26 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 0 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • 25 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 25 pages on startupformulas.com and 0 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 145 characters

    Your meta description is 145 characters: “AI teammates for owner-led businesses: coaching, custom skills, a company AI brain, and simple rules. Call Rylee our AI…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “We help business leaders leverage AI for more sales, faster support, cleaner books, less busywork.We help business lead…”.

  • Title: 49 characters

    Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “StartupFormulas — We help business leaders use AI”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.startupformulas.com/en.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: FAQPage, Organization, ProfessionalService and WebSite.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • 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.startupformulas.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, description and contact details; logo and sameAs (social profiles) would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,242 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.startupformulas.com/llms.txt (18 KiB, 54 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 12 internal pages checked

    We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 12 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 12 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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 12 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    5 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix86
  • No social proof

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

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 1,022 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,022 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Call Rylee” and “Call Rylee (479) 265-2900”.

  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Call Rylee · (479) 265-2900” and “Call Rylee (479) 265-2900”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 9 phone links and 1 email link.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • LocalBusiness structured data

    Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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.

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 5 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
Next.js
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Vercel

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