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accela.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202625 issues · 81 checks
This review found 25 issues worth fixing on accela.com, 6 of them high impact, across 81 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
88BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 97 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 100 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 106 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 110 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 97 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Render-blocking requests
2.9 s11 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.9 s.
Mobile performance score: 63
63/100Your mobile performance score is 63 (desktop: 81). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and claydar.com and others), adding 754 KiB and 768 ms of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 230 KiB6 images could be 230 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
150 ms · 300 KiBAbout 300 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 385 ms
385 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 385 ms of main-thread work and 536 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.
Main-thread work: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 13 KiBAbout 13 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
6 long tasks on the main thread
6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 149 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
131 KiB15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (131 KiB).
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Legacy JavaScript
11 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
1 checks passed
Server response: 12 ms
12 msYour server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 15.5 s
15.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.5 s
5.5 sYour largest element takes 5.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “The downtown skyline of Los Angeles”.
First Contentful Paint: 3.9 s
3.9 sThe first text or image appears after 3.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 4.6 s
4.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.136
0.136The layout shifts by 0.136 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 97 ms to 97 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 13% slower for real visitors
+13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 89 ms
89 msReal visitors wait 89 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.10
0.10For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.10 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 625 ms
625 msReal visitors wait 625 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 135 ms
135 msScripts block the page for only 135 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
7 images below the first screen load straight away
7 images further down the page (492 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
1 image in older formats
1 image (45 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.
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.54 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.54 g of CO₂e: 64.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Page weight: 1.9 MB in 124 requests
1.9 MBYour homepage downloads 1.9 MB in 124 requests on a phone: scripts 898 KiB (30), images 653 KiB (41) and fonts 242 KiB (4). That is a lean page.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 28 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
9 links with vague text
9 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
107 internal links, 6 external
The homepage links to 107 pages on accela.com and 6 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 121 characters
Your meta description is 121 characters: “Accela provides cloud-based solutions to enhance government operations, boost efficiency, and improve citizen engagemen…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Modern government, accelerated”.
Title: 41 characters
Your title is a healthy 41 characters: “Government Software and Services - Accela”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.accela.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.accela.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), 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.
3 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (825 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (9 KiB, 57 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
5 pages without a meta description
/roi-calculator, /novotx-elements, /epermithub, /solutions/occupational-licensing and /solutions/short-term-rental have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
/roi-calculator has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 48 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 broken images
2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=97269983&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=10fa3d93-e7e4-41c1-b0b5-4d375b7ac067&bo=1&sid=11c4bd60cc4611f18b2c79621fc5b1a4&vid=11c4fdb0cc4611f1a4c88b71e409cf3e&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
11 of 13 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 39 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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.
About 854 words of copy
The homepage carries about 854 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “REQUEST A DEMO” and “LEARN MORE”.
19 calls to action
The homepage has 19 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Request a demo” and “Service Request Management”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and LinkedIn Insight.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (TrustArc) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
20 cookies set on arrival
20Opening the homepage sets 20 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
40 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 40 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: TrustArc
A consent management tool (TrustArc) loads with the page.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at accela.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
Hiring
- Hiring
- 11 open roles
- Teams
- Product (3), Engineering (2), Legal (2), Professional Services (2)
- Job board
- greenhouse
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 25 issues on accela.com, including 12 speed issues, 1 SEO issue and 4 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
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