weightmans.com website review

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 700 ms.

About 73 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 313 ms of main-thread work and 379 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.

The page has 2,463 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and cookiehub.eu and others), adding 467 KiB and 421 ms of main-thread time.

9 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 148 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 140 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

2 images could be 51 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (33 KiB).

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “We know that your business and personal interests can reach…”.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 107 ms to 114 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

city-night-7.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.39 g of CO₂e: 46.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

The homepage links to 498 pages on weightmans.com and 7 external pages.

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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 199 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'register')”.

1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://www.weightmans.com/services/commercial/ (network).

1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.oneview.weightmans.com/ (404).

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

weightmans.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

weightmans.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

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 888 words of visible text.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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 1 cookie (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 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.