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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202628 issues · 69 checks
This review found 28 issues worth fixing on upscaleconstruction.com, 13 of them high impact, across 69 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
72CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.6 s
1.1 s
1.7 s
2.2 s
2.8 s
3.3 s
3.9 s
4.4 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
4.5 s · 406 KiBAbout 406 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.5 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.9 s17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.
Mobile performance score: 55
55/100Your mobile performance score is 55 (desktop: 81). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Google CDN adds 285 ms
285 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 285 ms of main-thread work and 739 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.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 42 KiB1 image could be 42 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
5 third-party services on the page
5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Unpkg and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1,013 KiB and 354 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 50 KiBAbout 50 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
5 long tasks on the main thread
5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 105 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 81 but mobile only 55. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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.
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Main-thread work: 1.6 s
A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 970 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 1 ms
1 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
First Contentful Paint: 9.2 s
9.2 sThe first text or image appears after 9.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 14.7 s
14.7 sYour largest element takes 14.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “GALLERY RESIDENCE”.
Time to Interactive: 14.7 s
14.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 14.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 9.2 s
9.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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.
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Total Blocking Time: 137 ms
137 msScripts block the page for only 137 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.4 MB in 46 requests
4.4 MBYour homepage downloads 4.4 MB in 46 requests on a phone: images 2.9 MB (11), scripts 918 KiB (16) and other files 360 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit
1.25 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.25 g of CO₂e: 150.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Links look like plain text
1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
7 links without text
7 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
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30 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 35 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 30 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Title is short (27 characters)
Your title is only 27 characters: “Home - Upscale Construction”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
41 internal links, 15 external
The homepage links to 41 pages on upscaleconstruction.com and 15 external pages.
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Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.
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://www.upscaleconstruction.com/sitemap_index.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 https://www.upscaleconstruction.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.
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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.
Other pages
14 pages without a meta description
https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/portfolio, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/approach, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/team, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/contact, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/gallery-residence and https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/hidden-garden and 8 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
9 pages with very little text
https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/gallery-residence, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/hidden-garden, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/pacific-charmer, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/penthouse-apartment, https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/bohemian-retreat and https://www.upscaleconstruction.com/project/sequoia-house and 3 others 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.
14 internal pages checked
We fetched 14 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 14 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 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 small tap targets
2 of 10 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
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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 social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
Only about 36 words
The homepage has only about 36 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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.
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2 calls to action
The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact”.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Privacy and tracking
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.
6 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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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
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at upscaleconstruction.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
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