verizon.com website review

A phone's processor spends 14.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 10.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Quantum Metric costs a phone 1.2 s of main-thread work and 172 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Quantum Metric, vzw.com and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 2.1 MB and 3.4 s of main-thread time.

vzw.com costs a phone 853 ms of main-thread work and 752 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 597 ms of main-thread work and 495 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.

Adobe Tag Manager costs a phone 184 ms of main-thread work and 342 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.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The first text or image appears after 6.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 196 ms to 221 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 7.3 MB in 448 requests on a phone: scripts 6.0 MB (150), stylesheets 419 KiB (55) and fonts 335 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example phnx-hp-bullseye at 996 px wide, shown at 166 px. Resized copies would save about 70 KiB.

3 images further down the page (99 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.07 g of CO₂e: 248.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

1 element has a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

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

Your title is 66 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Verizon: Wireless, Internet, TV and Phone Services | Official Site”.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

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

No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

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

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 114 pages on verizon.com and 22 external pages.

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.

/devices is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/smartphones has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/support/contact-us, /smartphones, /smartphones/certified-pre-owned, /devices, /basic-phones and /tablets and 2 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 69 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 of 21 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“The Topics API is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.”).

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'open' of object '#<Window>'”.

2 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

Large scripts ship without source maps.

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

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

The homepage carries about 303 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Pinterest Tag and 4 mores (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 36 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 24 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.