Solace has a genuinely beautiful site — one of the best-designed in healthcare. But beauty and speed are different budgets, and the measurements below show real money being left on the table. Every number here comes from Google Lighthouse 12 and direct inspection of the live page.
DalkTek is not affiliated with Solace Health. This is an unsolicited, independent audit of publicly accessible pages, published as a sample of our audit product. Happy to take it down on request — or better, fix the findings.
Google's own audit tooling, run against the live homepage. Performance is scored 0–100; Google treats under 50 as "poor."
These are the metrics Google folds into search ranking. The one that matters most, Largest Contentful Paint, is more than 10× over Google's "good" threshold.
Ordered by impact. The pattern is classic Webflow-plus-tag-manager weight: a gorgeous front, a heavy engine room.
Lighthouse measured 4,427 KiB transferred for a single homepage view — roughly 3× what a page like this needs. On a mid-range phone over LTE, that's the difference between instant and "did it freeze?"
Unused-JS analysis found ~745 KiB of dead weight shipped to every visitor, and 30 script tags (12 external vendors) on the page. Each analytics/AB-testing vendor bills its cost in milliseconds of Total Blocking Time — currently 2,310ms of frozen main thread.
Lighthouse estimates 1,070ms of savings just from deferring blocking CSS/JS. Combined with a 209 KB HTML document, first paint on mobile waits 7 seconds.
This is the single audit dragging both the SEO (92) and Accessibility (90) scores, flagged as image-alt. For a healthcare brand serving seniors — many using assistive tech — this is low-hanging fruit with real user impact.
No JSON-LD blocks found. There's no Organization, FAQ, or Service schema — which means no rich results, and weaker entity signals for queries like "patient advocate covered by insurance" that the title tag is clearly targeting.
Best-Practices (75) is dinged for third-party-cookies, errors-in-console, and browser-flagged inspector issues — noise that Chrome will treat increasingly harshly as cookie deprecation lands.
Content jumps as fonts and embeds arrive (CLS 0.134 vs the 0.10 "good" bar) — likely the custom display fonts loading without matched fallbacks.
Title tag (53 chars) and meta description (141 chars) are well-formed; exactly one H1; canonical present; robots.txt is sane and the sitemap resolves. The foundations are good — the site is just carrying too much weight.
What we'd do first if this were our project.
Preload the LCP image, serve it responsive and modern-format, and inline critical CSS. This attacks the 25.7s mobile LCP directly.
Target: LCP 25.7s → under 4sTwelve external script vendors is a committee, not a stack. Consolidate analytics, load AB-testing async after first paint, and drop anything not earning its bytes.
Target: TBT 2,310ms → under 400ms · −745 KiB dead JSMove blocking stylesheets/scripts behind the first paint; ~1.1s comes back for free.
Target: FCP 7.1s → under 2.5sSixteen images fixed in an afternoon; both the SEO and Accessibility scores move into the green.
Target: SEO 92 → 100 · A11y 90 → 96+Organization + Service + FAQPage schema across key templates to chase rich results on high-intent queries.
Target: rich-result eligibility on branded and category queriesSize-adjusted font fallbacks and reserved space for embeds to end the load-time shuffle.
Target: CLS 0.134 → under 0.05| Check | Measured | Benchmark | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse performance (mobile) | 23 / 100 | ≥ 90 | 🔴 Poor |
| Lighthouse performance (desktop) | 45 / 100 | ≥ 90 | 🔴 Poor |
| Largest Contentful Paint (mobile) | 25.7 s | ≤ 2.5 s | 🔴 10× over |
| Total Blocking Time | 2,310 ms | ≤ 200 ms | 🔴 11× over |
| Total transfer size | 4,427 KiB | ~1,500 KiB | 🔴 3× over |
| Unused JavaScript | 745 KiB | ~0 | 🔴 |
| HTML document size | 209 KB | < 100 KB | 🟠 |
| Script tags (external vendors) | 30 (12) | as few as possible | 🟠 |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | 0.134 | ≤ 0.10 | 🟠 |
| Images missing alt text | 16 / 47 | 0 | 🟠 |
| Structured data (JSON-LD) | 0 blocks | Org + Service + FAQ | 🟠 |
| Title / meta description / H1 | 53ch / 141ch / 1 | — | 🟢 Good |
| Canonical · robots.txt · sitemap | present | present | 🟢 Good |
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