upshift.work website review

About 989 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.4 s faster on a phone.

18 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.5 s.

Your mobile performance score is 35. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 4.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and heatmap.com and others), adding 1.3 MB and 1.3 s of main-thread time.

13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 1.4 s. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 866 ms of main-thread work and 708 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.

About 129 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

23 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (460 KiB).

136 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Polyfills for old browsers add 56 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

3 images could be 54 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

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.

Your largest element takes 10.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Upshift app showing available shifts”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 19.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors wait 210 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.8 s to 3.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.5 MB in 114 requests on a phone: scripts 2.0 MB (50), fonts 187 KiB (5) and stylesheets 166 KiB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images (92 KiB) 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 0.72 g of CO₂e: 86.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your title is 77 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “We Make Work Better- for People and Businesses | Staffing Redefined | Upshift”.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to only 4 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

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.

There is no https://upshift.work/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://upshift.work/for-people has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 2 pages linked from your homepage 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=343036388&Ver=2&mid=a650bbf8-52dd-4c36-963d-59805a923bd4&bo=1&sid=46569390d52d11f1b9aadd15b0ef1329&vid=4656c050d52d11f1a7e7739eb2950fb3&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&l.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

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.

The homepage has only about 58 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 24 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 49 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.