theelliotgroup.com website review

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.0 s.

About 113 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 69 (desktop: 98). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Google Tag Manager and Optanon and others), adding 2.7 MB and 446 ms of main-thread time.

2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (37 KiB).

website-files.com costs a phone 183 ms of main-thread work and 1.0 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.

Vimeo costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 1.3 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.

4 images could be 215 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 75 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 37 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Desktop scores 98 but mobile only 69. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

Polyfills for old browsers add 9 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.

Your largest element takes 6.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The first text or image appears after 3.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 3.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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 2.7 MB in 58 requests on a phone: media 1.3 MB (1), images 913 KiB (31) and scripts 366 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.77 g of CO₂e: 92.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The skip-link target should exist and be focusable: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

6 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

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

There are 4 <h1> headlines (“WHY THE ELLIOT GROUP?”, “Industries Served” and “THE ELLIOT EXPERIENCE”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 43 pages on theelliotgroup.com and 3 external pages.

There is no https://www.theelliotgroup.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.theelliotgroup.com/our-approach, https://www.theelliotgroup.com/industries/restaurant-and-hospitality, https://www.theelliotgroup.com/industries/consumer-and-lifestyle and https://www.theelliotgroup.com/industries/franchising have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.theelliotgroup.com/executive-search and https://www.theelliotgroup.com/elliot-leadership-institute use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

We fetched 14 pages linked from your homepage 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”.

1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.

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 604 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). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.