thevendue.com website review

6 images could be 1.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 7.8 s faster on a phone.

18 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, zotabox.com and Facebook and others), adding 2.3 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

100 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (699 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 937 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 744 ms of main-thread work and 988 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.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 400 ms).

A phone's processor spends 3.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

zotabox.com costs a phone 180 ms of main-thread work and 684 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.

14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 189 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 105 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 47 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

11 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

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 visitors wait 1.9 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 10.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Vendue”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 23.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 610 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors see the first content after 2.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 153 ms to 163 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.0 MB in 190 requests on a phone: images 2.4 MB (39), scripts 2.3 MB (67) and media 612 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

ven_ext_eastbay_mobile_hero.png weighs 1.7 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

2 images (1.7 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.70 g of CO₂e: 203.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

The homepage links to 63 pages on thevendue.com and 21 external pages.

There is no https://www.thevendue.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.thevendue.com/lookingglass and https://www.thevendue.com/holidays have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.thevendue.com/attractions, https://www.thevendue.com/historic-downtown-charleston-hotel, https://www.thevendue.com/contact and https://www.thevendue.com/attractions/charleston-city-market took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 26 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=22018493&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=98ef01fb-9633-4611-a499-0a042cc9d34f&bo=1&sid=59e56f60df1e11f19e13710911c66ece&vid=59e58b60df1e11f1a89c393714783c3d&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

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

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

The homepage carries about 865 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (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 11 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 29 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.