wendiloulee.com website review

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

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

2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (78 KiB).

5 images could be 159 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

wp.com costs a phone 1 ms of main-thread work and 314 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 55 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

About 53 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Facebook, WordPress and WordPress Site Stats and others), adding 596 KiB and 57 ms of main-thread time.

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.

Your largest element takes 5.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 5.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example gracewhouse_fp.jpg at 1,200 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 4 KiB.

1 image (84 KiB) is 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 0.25 g of CO₂e: 30.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 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.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Your meta description is 278 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 12 pages on wendiloulee.com and 9 external pages.

There is no https://wendiloulee.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.

Your homepage links to https://wendiloulee.com/prairie-devotional, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

https://wendiloulee.com/upcoming-events, https://wendiloulee.com/media-kit, https://wendiloulee.com/little-blessings-on-the-prairie and https://wendiloulee.com/lets-connect took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 9 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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

Social proof on the homepage: 5 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

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 553 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Meta Pixel (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.

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