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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202613 issues · 72 checks

This review found 13 issues worth fixing on thegildgroup.com, 3 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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

Site score

95A

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Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.4 s1.3 sApr 25Oct 101.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 25, 20262.2 s
May 2, 20262.2 s
May 9, 20262.1 s
May 16, 20262.1 s
May 23, 20262.1 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.1 s
Jun 13, 20262.0 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20262.2 s
Jul 18, 20262.3 s
Jul 25, 20262.1 s
Aug 1, 20262.2 s
Aug 8, 20262.2 s
Aug 15, 20261.8 s
Aug 22, 20261.8 s
Aug 29, 20261.8 s
Sep 5, 20261.4 s
Sep 12, 20261.8 s
Sep 19, 20261.6 s
Sep 26, 20261.5 s
Oct 3, 20261.8 s
Oct 10, 20261.5 s

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

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Full-page screenshot of thegildgroup.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. thegildgroup.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. thegildgroup.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. thegildgroup.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. thegildgroup.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. thegildgroup.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. thegildgroup.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. thegildgroup.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  8. thegildgroup.com at 3.2 s3.2 s

Speed

99

  • Improve image delivery

    8 KiB

    1 image could be 8 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 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.

3 checks passed

  • Mobile performance score: 99

    99/100

    Your mobile performance score is 99 (desktop: 100). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Server response: 328 ms

    328 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 328 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

  • Main-thread work: 0.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 57 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100

  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Speed Index: 3.7 s

    3.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

9 checks passed

  • Real-user LCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 24% faster for real visitors

    -24%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.2 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.01

    0.01

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.01, good is under 0.1).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Your largest element renders in 1.1 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Gild is an SME eco-system powered by specialists in account…”.

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Time to Interactive: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    The page is fully interactive after 1.1 s.

Images and page weight

100

  • About 0.05 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.05 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.05 g of CO₂e: 6.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed

  • Page weight: 194 KiB in 11 requests

    194 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 194 KiB in 11 requests on a phone: fonts 111 KiB (5), HTML 46 KiB (1) and images 37 KiB (5). That is a lean page.

  • 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.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8192

  • 3 tap targets too small

    3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (21 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 21 elements on the page fail 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.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 3 links without text

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

  • Headings should not be empty (2 elements)

    Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed

  • Every image has alt text

    All 33 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 35 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 35 passed and 7 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

  • 29 internal links, 25 external

    The homepage links to 29 pages on thegildgroup.com and 25 external pages.

8 checks passed

  • Meta description: 145 characters

    Your meta description is 145 characters: “Grow your business with The Gild Group, a trusted professional services firm delivering finance, legal, tax, and market…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Gild is an SME eco-system powered by specialists in accounting, tax, wealth, R&D incentives and grants, legal, marketin…”.

  • Title: 65 characters

    Your title is a healthy 65 characters: “The Gild Group | Accounting, Tax, R&D & Wealth Advisory Australia”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://thegildgroup.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: FinancialService, ImageObject, Organization, Place and Service.

  • 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://thegildgroup.com/sitemap_index.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: 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 (510 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://thegildgroup.com/llms.txt (7 KiB, 29 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90

  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://thegildgroup.com/payments has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://thegildgroup.com/payments has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    https://thegildgroup.com/payments and https://thegildgroup.com/contact-us have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 3 pages slow to respond

    https://thegildgroup.com/whoweare, https://thegildgroup.com/our-clients and https://thegildgroup.com/payments took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 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.

  • 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

Google 100100
2 checks passed

  • No console errors

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix88

  • 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.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • 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 470 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 470 words of visible text.

7 checks passed

  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Get in touch”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 26 testimonial or review blocks and 3 customer or partner logos.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel and LinkedIn Insight.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • Opening hours shown

    Your opening hours are on the homepage.

  • 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 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (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.

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

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Upkeep, stack and company

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CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager

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