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thisisimportant.net website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202616 issues · 54 checks
This review found 16 issues worth fixing on thisisimportant.net, 3 of them high impact, across 54 checks. The most urgent: no call to action on the first screen. 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
81BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
450 ms · 70 KiBAbout 70 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics), adding 165 KiB and 181 ms of main-thread time.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 143 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 90
90/100Your mobile performance score is 90. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.3 s
A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 118 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
2.7 sThe first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 4.4 s
4.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
2.7 sYour largest element takes 2.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Practicing data-informed documentation Oct 27, 2026 tech wr…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.3 s).
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.
3 checks passed
Time to Interactive: 2.7 s
2.7 sThe page is fully interactive after 2.7 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.05 g of CO₂ per visit
0.05 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.05 g of CO₂e: 5.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Page weight: 177 KiB in 5 requests
177 KiBYour homepage downloads 177 KiB in 5 requests on a phone: scripts 166 KiB (2), HTML 6 KiB (1) and stylesheets 4 KiB (1). That is a lean page.
Accessibility
1 checks passed
25 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 25 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 25 passed and 0 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (24 characters)
Your title is only 24 characters: “Home | This is important”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
Meta description is long (225 characters)
Your meta description is 225 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
283 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 283 pages on thisisimportant.net and 1 external page.
4 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “🏠 This is important”.
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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://thisisimportant.net/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
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.
No llms.txt
There is no /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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,351 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
8 pages without a meta description
/about, /topics, /topics/borders-on-the-web, /topics/newsletter, /topics/thread and /rss and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page with very little text
/topics has 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.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 131 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.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
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
18 small tap targets
18 of 61 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
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
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 calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
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 1,351 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,351 words of visible text.
1 checks passed
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before 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.
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (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.
2 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 thisisimportant.net, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- Hugo 0.121.1
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- AWS
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