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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202638 issues · 103 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on acdlabs.com, 13 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
4.4 s3.5 sMay 9Oct 243.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20264.1 s
May 16, 20264.0 s
May 23, 20264.0 s
May 30, 20263.9 s
Jun 6, 20263.8 s
Jun 13, 20264.0 s
Jun 20, 20264.1 s
Jun 27, 20264.2 s
Jul 4, 20264.2 s
Jul 11, 20264.2 s
Jul 18, 20264.3 s
Jul 25, 20264.1 s
Aug 1, 20264.2 s
Aug 8, 20264.2 s
Aug 15, 20264.2 s
Aug 22, 20264.1 s
Aug 29, 20264.1 s
Sep 5, 20264.0 s
Sep 12, 20263.9 s
Sep 19, 20263.8 s
Sep 26, 20263.8 s
Oct 3, 20263.8 s
Oct 10, 20263.7 s
Oct 17, 20263.7 s
Oct 24, 20263.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
564 ms275 msMay 9Oct 24308 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026531 ms
May 16, 2026499 ms
May 23, 2026471 ms
May 30, 2026461 ms
Jun 6, 2026471 ms
Jun 13, 2026462 ms
Jun 20, 2026434 ms
Jun 27, 2026445 ms
Jul 4, 2026427 ms
Jul 11, 2026437 ms
Jul 18, 2026463 ms
Jul 25, 2026402 ms
Aug 1, 2026452 ms
Aug 8, 2026410 ms
Aug 15, 2026380 ms
Aug 22, 2026361 ms
Aug 29, 2026333 ms
Sep 5, 2026329 ms
Sep 12, 2026315 ms
Sep 19, 2026312 ms
Sep 26, 2026309 ms
Oct 3, 2026312 ms
Oct 10, 2026311 ms
Oct 17, 2026308 ms
Oct 24, 2026308 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. acdlabs.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. acdlabs.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. acdlabs.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. acdlabs.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. acdlabs.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. acdlabs.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. acdlabs.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. acdlabs.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

acdlabs.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

8 to fix53
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.5 s · 758 KiB

    About 758 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.6 s

    20 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 53

    53/100

    Your mobile performance score is 53. 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, Google CDN and Clarity and others), adding 1.5 MB and 839 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    710 ms · 173 KiB

    About 173 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 710 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    537 KiB

    8 images could be 537 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 434 ms

    434 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 434 ms of main-thread work and 545 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 CDN adds 291 ms

    291 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 291 ms of main-thread work and 741 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.

  • Font display

    200 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).

  • Minify JavaScript

    168 KiB

    168 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 12 long tasks on the main thread

    12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 122 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    41 KiB

    8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (41 KiB).

  • Minify CSS

    17 KiB

    17 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 15 ms

    15 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 15 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

12 to fix0
  • 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.

  • Real-user FCP: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 3.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 7.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 18.2 s

    18.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    Your largest element takes 7.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “This web site is being migrated and pages will be redirecte…”.

  • Speed Index: 9.9 s

    9.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 9.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Real visitors wait 3.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 378 ms

    378 ms

    Real visitors wait 378 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.11

    0.11

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.11 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors wait 1.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 226 ms

    226 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 226 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 6 images without width and height

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

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  • Tap response (INP) got 40% faster for real visitors

    -40%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 531 ms to 308 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 10% faster for real visitors

    -10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.1 s to 3.6 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

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 6.6 MB in 103 requests

    6.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 6.6 MB in 103 requests on a phone: media 2.5 MB (2), images 1.6 MB (24) and scripts 1.6 MB (36). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.86 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.86 g of CO₂e: 223.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 9191
  • 1 button without a name

    1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • <svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text (9 elements)

    <svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 6 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 5 images without alt text

    5 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • 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.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h4, h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10097
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 178 internal links, 11 external

    The homepage links to 178 pages on acdlabs.com and 11 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 143 characters

    Your meta description is 143 characters: “Your Partner in Chemistry Software for Analytical and Chemical Knowledge Management, Chemical Nomenclature, and In-Sili…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “ACD/Labs is now part of Revvity Signals This web site is being migrated and pages will be redirected in the coming mont…”.

  • Title: 48 characters

    Your title is a healthy 48 characters: “ACD/Labs | Software for R&D | Chemistry Software”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.acdlabs.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

  • XML sitemap found

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

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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.

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  • 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.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,553 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /solutions and /technical-support have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 119 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    8 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • 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.

  • 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 8 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 6 small tap targets

    6 of 13 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

3 to fix81
  • http:// does not redirect

    http://acdlabs.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.

  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • No Content-Security-Policy

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

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (109 days left)

    The certificate from Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 verifies for acdlabs.com and is valid for another 109 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

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

  • All 50 links work

    All 50 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 10 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    acdlabs.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

  • DNSSEC is off

    acdlabs.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.

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  • Domain is 30 years old

    30 years

    acdlabs.com was registered in Dec 1995 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Dec 2033

    acdlabs.com is registered until Dec 2033.

Content and conversion

3 to fix81
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 13 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 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 1,006 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,006 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact Us”.

  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “IUPAC Blue Book”, “Contact Us” and “Register”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Email authentication

95
  • Email authentication score: 95/100

    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.

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  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject 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.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.atlassian.net include:mail1.wpengine.com include:auth.msgapp.com…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Microsoft Clarity (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.

  • 27 cookies set on arrival

    27

    Opening the homepage sets 27 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.

  • 25 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.4.
  • 1 plugin is behind its latest release.venobox-lightbox 1.9.3 → 2.0.8

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
WooCommerce
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Employees
185
Founded
1994
Headquarters
Toronto

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