turnercontemporary.org website review

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Google Analytics and others), adding 15.6 MB and 455 ms of main-thread time.

b-cdn.net costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 14.6 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.

Your mobile performance score is 77 (desktop: 90). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 324 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.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 450 ms.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 250 ms of main-thread work and 337 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.

svdcdn.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 478 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.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (213 KiB).

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 176 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

2 images could be 37 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

About 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 12 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.

Visually, the page fills in at 12.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 9.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 3.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Sophie Calle: Something Missing?”. Most of its time is element render delay (7.8 s).

The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 228 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 88 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 16.0 MB in 39 requests on a phone: media 14.6 MB (1), scripts 777 KiB (10) and images 478 KiB (16). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.52 g of CO₂e: 542.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

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

ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

17 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

Your title is 66 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Turner Contemporary | Free Contemporary Art… | Turner Contemporary”.

Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Organization and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Organization: missing name”.

5 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 133 pages on turnercontemporary.org and 14 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out Perplexity (PerplexityBot). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, url, logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://turnercontemporary.org/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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot and Google-Extended, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

https://turnercontemporary.org/visit-us, https://turnercontemporary.org/visit-us/accessibility, https://turnercontemporary.org/donate, https://turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/exhibitions, https://turnercontemporary.org/visit-us/cafe-and-restaurant and https://turnercontemporary.org/visit-us/educational-groups and 1 other took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 63 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

13 of 56 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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 750 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Quantcast (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 7 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 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.