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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202629 issues · 61 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on whobal.com, 10 of them high impact, across 61 checks. The most urgent: main-thread work: 39.0 s. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of whobal.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. whobal.com at 4.4 s4.4 s
  2. whobal.com at 8.7 s8.7 s
  3. whobal.com at 13.1 s13.1 s
  4. whobal.com at 17.5 s17.5 s
  5. whobal.com at 21.8 s21.8 s
  6. whobal.com at 26.2 s26.2 s
  7. whobal.com at 30.6 s30.6 s
  8. whobal.com at 34.9 s34.9 s

Speed

4 to fix66
  • Main-thread work: 39.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 39.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 274 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Improve image delivery

    4.4 MB

    7 images could be 4.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Mobile performance score: 66

    66/100

    Your mobile performance score is 66. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 768 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Render-blocking requests

    150 ms

    1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    22 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 22 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Cloudflare, dev0studio.com and producthunt.com), adding 15 KiB and 12 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    5 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (5 KiB).

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Minify JavaScript

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • Total Blocking Time: 30.4 s

    30.4 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 30.4 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Time to Interactive: 40.3 s

    40.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 40.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.3 s

    5.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 7 images without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

3 checks passed
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • First Contentful Paint: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 0.8 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Your largest element renders in 0.8 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “I built this little tool to create copyright free gradients…”.

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 10.0 MB in 26 requests

    10.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 10.0 MB in 26 requests on a phone: media 5.2 MB (1), images 4.6 MB (9) and scripts 156 KiB (11). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 6 images over 500 KB

    6 images weigh 4.6 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 6 images far larger than shown

    3.6 MB

    6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 219b842f-511d-4c9a-9366-a28799fb99ee.png at 1,920 px wide, shown at 300 px. Resized copies would save about 3.6 MB.

  • 6 images in older formats

    6 images (4.6 MB) 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.

  • 4 images below the first screen load straight away

    4 images further down the page (2.8 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 2.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.85 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.85 g of CO₂e: 341.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 7990
  • 4 buttons without a name

    4 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 8 tap targets too small

    8 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (4 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 5 form fields without a label

    5 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 9 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 36 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 36 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 10077
  • Title is long (72 characters)

    Your title is 72 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Beautiful Backgrounds for Websites and Applications | Gradient Generator”.

  • No structured data

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

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Meta description is long (231 characters)

    Your meta description is 231 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 7 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 7 pages on whobal.com and 4 external pages.

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  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Generate Custom Gradients in Seconds”.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://whobal.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • No Organization structured data

    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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://whobal.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.

1 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    13 of 15 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • No social proof

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

  • No direct contact details

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

  • Only about 50 words

    The homepage has only about 50 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • No risk reducer

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

3 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Subscribe for Video Export”.

  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Subscribe for Video Export”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Cloudflare Web Analytics.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    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.

  • 3 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

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CMS
Webflow
Framework
Next.js
Hosting
Cloudflare

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