tedbrownmusic.com website review

About 670 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (334 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 45 (desktop: 63). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Bigcommerce and podium.com and others), adding 2.9 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 850 ms.

26 images could be 472 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

Google CDN costs a phone 504 ms of main-thread work and 730 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.

Bigcommerce costs a phone 294 ms of main-thread work and 1.4 MB 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.

About 86 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 3.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

podium.com costs a phone 244 ms of main-thread work and 533 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.

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 232 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Your largest element takes 11.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We use cookies (and other similar technologies) to collect …”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 16.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 5.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 605 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

33 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 89 ms to 89 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 131 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (39), images 1.1 MB (53) and other files 491 KiB (24). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

6 images further down the page (156 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.95 g of CO₂e: 114.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Your title is only 23 characters: “Ted Brown Music Company”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

No XML sitemap at https://tedbrownmusic.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

Your <h1> is empty.

Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 186 pages on tedbrownmusic.com and 3 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://tedbrownmusic.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://tedbrownmusic.com/educational-services, https://tedbrownmusic.com/shop-by-category, https://tedbrownmusic.com/shop-by-category/band-and-orchestra, https://tedbrownmusic.com/shop-by-category/band-and-orchestra/band-instruments, https://tedbrownmusic.com/shop-by-category/band-and-orchestra/orchestra-instruments and https://tedbrownmusic.com/shop-by-category/band-and-orchestra/concert-percussion-instruments and 7 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 145 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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.

Social proof on the homepage: 7 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

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

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 416 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

Opening the homepage sets 8 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 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.