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stjamess.org website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 November 202612 issues · 64 checks
This review found 12 issues worth fixing on stjamess.org, 4 of them high impact, across 64 checks. The most urgent: 12 tap targets too small. 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
90A- #2,239 of 109,330 reviewed websitesbeats 97%
- #1,100 of 61,851 online storesbeats 97%
- #1,065 of 56,399 Shopify storesbeats 97%
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Speed
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 100
100/100Your mobile performance score is 100. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.0 s
A phone's processor spends 0.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 4 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 1 ms
1 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
6 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.8 s
0.8 sThe first text or image appears after 0.8 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Largest Contentful Paint: 0.8 s
0.8 sYour largest element renders in 0.8 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Error establishing a database connection”.
Speed Index: 0.9 s
0.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 0.9 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Time to Interactive: 0.8 s
0.8 sThe page is fully interactive after 0.8 s.
Images and page weight
About 0.00 g of CO₂ per visit
0.00 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.00 g of CO₂e: 0.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Page weight: 2 KiB in 1 request
2 KiBYour homepage downloads 2 KiB in 1 request on a phone: HTML 2 KiB (1). That is a lean page.
Accessibility
12 tap targets too small
12 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
6 text elements with low contrast
6 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 (2 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails 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.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 23 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
44 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Error status code
The page answers with an error status, so search engines may drop it.
Title is short (23 characters)
Your title is only 23 characters: “Home – St James's House”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
85 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 85 pages on stjamess.org and 8 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 153 characters
Your meta description is 153 characters: “St James’s House creates publishing, film, digital and live storytelling campaigns that celebrate milestones, leadershi…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Harness the power of storytelling”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://stjamess.org/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: ImageObject, Organization, Place, WebPage 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://stjamess.org/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (599 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://stjamess.org/llms.txt (1 KiB, 0 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
5 pages without an H1
https://stjamess.org/expertise/publishing, https://stjamess.org/expertise/film, https://stjamess.org/expertise/digital, https://stjamess.org/expertise/events and https://stjamess.org/ourwork have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 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 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Footer element not found in the DOM.”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
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 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 467 words of copy
The homepage carries about 467 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Shop” and “Contact us”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 37 testimonial or review blocks and 20 customer or partner logos.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Privacy and tracking
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies, 3 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.
8 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 8 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 stjamess.org, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- 10 Shopify Products;Shopify;Shopify Plus
- Hosting
- Hostinger
Hiring
- Hiring
- 1 open role
- Job board
- careers page
- Careers page
- stjamess.org/jobs-board (opens in a new tab)
Company
- Headquarters
- London
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