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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202637 issues · 106 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on accredible.com, 13 of them high impact, across 106 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
9.0 s2.1 sApr 25Oct 102.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 25, 20265.7 s
May 2, 20265.9 s
May 9, 20266.0 s
May 16, 20266.0 s
May 23, 20266.3 s
May 30, 20266.5 s
Jun 6, 20266.8 s
Jun 13, 20267.5 s
Jun 20, 20267.7 s
Jun 27, 20268.0 s
Jul 4, 20268.2 s
Jul 11, 20268.0 s
Jul 18, 20267.7 s
Jul 25, 20267.4 s
Aug 1, 20266.6 s
Aug 8, 20265.1 s
Aug 15, 20263.8 s
Aug 22, 20264.0 s
Aug 29, 20263.9 s
Sep 5, 20264.0 s
Sep 12, 20263.9 s
Sep 19, 20263.4 s
Sep 26, 20263.3 s
Oct 3, 20263.1 s
Oct 10, 20262.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
408 ms253 msApr 25Oct 10329 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 25, 2026287 ms
May 2, 2026290 ms
May 9, 2026296 ms
May 16, 2026315 ms
May 23, 2026339 ms
May 30, 2026356 ms
Jun 6, 2026374 ms
Jun 13, 2026388 ms
Jun 20, 2026381 ms
Jun 27, 2026390 ms
Jul 4, 2026378 ms
Jul 11, 2026361 ms
Jul 18, 2026358 ms
Jul 25, 2026336 ms
Aug 1, 2026318 ms
Aug 8, 2026287 ms
Aug 15, 2026271 ms
Aug 22, 2026281 ms
Aug 29, 2026287 ms
Sep 5, 2026304 ms
Sep 12, 2026321 ms
Sep 19, 2026325 ms
Sep 26, 2026329 ms
Oct 3, 2026328 ms
Oct 10, 2026329 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

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Speed

11 to fix31
  • Render-blocking requests

    4.7 s

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.7 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 31

    31/100

    Your mobile performance score is 31 (desktop: 51). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 6.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 6.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Wistia and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 2.6 MB and 3.0 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    300 ms · 1.0 MB

    About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • website-files.com adds 972 ms

    972 ms

    website-files.com costs a phone 972 ms of main-thread work and 997 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.

  • Wistia adds 744 ms

    744 ms

    Wistia costs a phone 744 ms of main-thread work and 433 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.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 566 ms

    566 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 566 ms of main-thread work and 553 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    501 KiB

    46 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (501 KiB).

  • Facebook adds 287 ms

    287 ms

    Facebook costs a phone 287 ms of main-thread work and 220 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.

  • 1,819 HTML elements

    The page has 1,819 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 231 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 45 KiB

    About 45 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    148 KiB

    9 images could be 148 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    55 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 55 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    38 KiB

    38 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • 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: 8 ms

    8 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

10 to fix33
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Time to Interactive: 26.1 s

    26.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 26.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 7.2 s

    7.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 7.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.0 s

    9.0 s

    Your largest element takes 9.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Recognize, engage, and advance your learners”.

  • Speed Index: 11.6 s

    11.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.3 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.8 s

    2.8 s

    Real visitors wait 2.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 291 ms

    291 ms

    Real visitors wait 291 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 26 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 14% slower for real visitors

    +14%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 287 ms to 329 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

4 checks passed
  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user TTFB: 597 ms

    597 ms

    Real visitors wait 597 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 48% faster for real visitors

    -48%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.7 s to 2.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix81
  • Page weight: 3.4 MB in 187 requests

    3.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 187 requests on a phone: scripts 2.1 MB (81), fonts 697 KiB (12) and images 371 KiB (39). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    661b0755122a164fb64071dd_Logo.webp is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.97 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.97 g of CO₂e: 116.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 9594
  • 2 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (31 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 31 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h3 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 83 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 41 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 4 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10083
  • robots.txt blocks all crawlers

    Your robots.txt disallows the whole site for every crawler, so search engines are told to stay out.

  • 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 (167 characters)

    Your meta description is 167 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 119 internal links, 18 external

    The homepage links to 119 pages on accredible.com and 18 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Recognize, engage, and advance your learners”.

  • Title: 53 characters

    Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “Accredible | Digital Badging and Certificate Platform”.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: WebPage.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • XML sitemap found

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

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

  • Opted out of AI training for 1 crawler

    robots.txt blocks CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

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 (1,608 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (2 KiB, 1 link), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 48 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 9270
  • 3 broken images

    3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/fe44cbfd4e975a8036f5e806623033cf.jpg?image_crop_resized=640x360.

  • 6 small tap targets

    6 of 19 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • 10 distorted images

    10 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • No clickjacking protection

    Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://help.accredible.com/.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (accredible.com).

  • Valid certificate (49 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for accredible.com and is valid for another 49 days.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://accredible.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 53 links work

    All 53 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 13 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    accredible.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

3 checks passed
  • Domain is 13 years old

    13 years

    accredible.com was registered in Jan 2013 through NameCheap, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only pki.goog, sectigo.com, letsencrypt.org and amazon.com to issue certificates for accredible.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • Registered until Jan 2027

    accredible.com is registered until Jan 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • 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 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 718 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 718 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Book a demo” and “Watch demo Watch time: 2min”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Get a Demo” and “Book a demo”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (3 fields at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 14 customer or partner logos, 3 trust badges and “2,300 + Customers”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Hotjar and HubSpot.

Email authentication

85
  • Email authentication score: 85/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:mai…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 11 trackers load before any consent

    11

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 6 mores (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 30 cookies set on arrival

    30

    Opening the homepage sets 30 cookies (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.

  • 67 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 67 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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