whelen.com website review

13 images could be 1.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.1 s.

Your mobile performance score is 76. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 239 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and Hubspot and others), adding 1.3 MB and 342 ms of main-thread time.

About 48 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (304 KiB).

The page has 1,900 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 130 ms of main-thread work and 298 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.

site.com costs a phone 8 ms of main-thread work and 611 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.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 90 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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 5.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Want the latest updates and exclusive behind the scenes con…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors wait 845 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 71 ms to 79 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 91 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (37), images 1.1 MB (23) and stylesheets 156 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

7 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 90 at 390 px wide, shown at 90 px. Resized copies would save about 275 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.74 g of CO₂e: 88.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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.

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

Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

The homepage links to 276 pages on whelen.com and 25 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://www.whelen.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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 116 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

13 of 32 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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: 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.

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 330 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Clarity (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 8 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 21 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.