A website check, before and after

This is the page where buyers go to hear your work, so it's the one that most needs to be quick. I ran Google's PageSpeed test (it simulates a mid-range phone on mobile data) twice on each page.

Why it's so heavy: the Portfolio page has 10 Facebook reel players, 5 YouTube players and several Squarespace videos on it. They all load as soon as the page opens, whether anyone presses play or not. The Facebook players alone pull down over 6 MB of video.

Check it yourself: go to pagespeed.web.dev and enter jamesbeltsvo.com.au/portfolio. Scores change a little each time you run it.

In the same test, the home page took 12 to 17 seconds before the main content showed. A few things add up:

• The contact form loads Google's spam check (reCAPTCHA) as soon as the page opens, which is a big chunk of code most visitors never use.
• The "Brands I've worked with" carousel holds over 40 logo images.
• Some photos are uploaded much bigger than they're shown. Google estimates about 425 KB could be saved on images alone.

You have a Google Maps listing ("James Belts Voiceovers") with your website, phone number and hours, and both reviews are five stars with your replies underneath. I searched Google Maps the way a client would, and this is where you came up:

• The category is "Artist". That's the general category Google uses for painters, musicians and the like. Google leans heavily on the category to decide which searches a listing appears in, which is the likely reason "voice actor" searches skip you.
• Two reviews, the newest five months old. Abe's Audio has 108. Your website shows five more five-star testimonials (Karen, Tony, Jose, Leanne and Mustard) that aren't on Google, where buyers can see they're real.
• One of your three photos is the old red-and-black "James BELTS" logo, which no longer matches your website (see point 14).
• A small one: your reply to Massud's review says "a pleasure to meet your breif".

Searched on Google Maps on 21 October 2026, with the map centred on Hobart (and on Tasmania for the Tasmania search). Results move around a little depending on where the person searching is.

This is the blue headline Google shows for your home page. Right now it reads:

That's 165 characters with your name run together twice ("voiceoversJames"). Google only shows about the first 60, so most of it gets cut off.

Portfolio, Pricing and "How does it work?" have no description, so Google makes one up from whatever text it finds on the page. Only the home page has one.

• "Hobart" appears only once on the whole site, inside the How it works page ("We can even meet in Hobart"). Your footer just says "Australia", and Tasmania isn't mentioned anywhere.
• Squarespace adds a hidden "business card" to each page so Google can read your details. On your site it's blank: no business name, address, area or hours.

The five-step process appears both on the home page and on its own page. Google usually only shows one version of repeated text. The two copies also don't match: step 1 is "Quick chat" on one page and "Scope your project or consultation" on the other. That page also has no main heading, which is the first thing Google reads to understand what a page is about.

Most images on your home and Portfolio pages have no alt text (the short description Google Images and screen readers use). The ones that do just use the file name, like resstown studios.png or mf logo.png. Google also lists every Portfolio video under the same title, "Voiceover Demos & Projects".

At the bottom of your "How does it work?" page, the What are your rates? button goes to /about-6-1, a page that doesn't exist. Visitors who click it land on Squarespace's default pink "We couldn't find the page" screen. Someone asking about price is close to booking, so this is the worst place to lose them.

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Your client list is one of your best selling points, and those clients might look at it themselves. A few names are misspelled or don't match between pages:

"Brands I've worked with" has over 40 names, but on a phone it's a carousel that shows one logo at a time with arrow buttons. Nobody will tap through 40 slides, so most visitors only ever see The Voice Realm.

Your Pricing page says your voiceover is "yours to use on social media" and also "No usage limits". A buyer planning a TV or radio ad could read that two ways: does "no limits" include broadcast, or is it social media only? That's the kind of gap that leads to a back-and-forth before booking, or a disagreement after.

The page is also called "Voiceover Pricing" but has no figures on it. Many buyers compare a few voice actors before getting in touch, and some will skip a page with nothing to compare.

• Your phone number in the footer is plain text, not a tap-to-call link, so on many phones tapping it does nothing. There's no email address anywhere on the site, so the form is the only way to get in touch in writing.
• The form asks for a first name, email and "Your text". It doesn't ask for a phone number, deadline or a way to attach a script, so you'll often need a second round of emails before you can quote.
• The form has a "Sign up for news and updates" box, but there's no privacy policy on the site saying what happens to people's details.

When someone shares your website on Facebook, Messenger, LinkedIn or in a text, the preview uses a small (432 × 432 px) red-and-black "James BELTS" logo that doesn't appear anywhere on your current black-and-white site. The Pricing and How it works pages have no share image at all. The little icon in the browser tab is still Squarespace's default one.