stedwards.edu website review

About 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 2.3 s of main-thread work and 2.7 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

Your mobile performance score is 42. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 4.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, iubenda and reddit and others), adding 2.9 MB and 3.2 s of main-thread time.

iubenda costs a phone 627 ms of main-thread work and 125 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.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 512 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (82 KiB).

8 images could be 165 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 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 50 ms).

About 28 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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

Your largest element takes 12.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Campus View”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 25.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.3 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Visually, the page fills in at 4.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 1.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 189 ms to 187 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 219 requests on a phone: scripts 3.1 MB (46), images 461 KiB (42) and fonts 254 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.12 g of CO₂e: 134.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to 75 pages on stedwards.edu and 13 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.stedwards.edu/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.stedwards.edu/events is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://www.stedwards.edu/events has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 59 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=136017641&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=43cd1533-f246-440c-85dd-1ec3f1e12054&bo=3&sid=6a6e0720d82411f1b479279956ba04dc&vid=6a6e29c0d82411f19a9ef113424129cd&vids=0&msclkid=N&pi=9.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach 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 331 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (iubenda) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 28 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 32 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.