aces.edu website review

About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.0 s faster on a phone.

18 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 5.8 s.

About 869 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.3 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 13. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 5.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and The Trade Desk and others), adding 1.3 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 955 ms of main-thread work and 898 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.

Facebook costs a phone 368 ms of main-thread work and 296 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.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (317 KiB).

18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 269 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

6 images could be 58 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Polyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

9 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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 visitors wait 4.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 2.9 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 28.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

Visually, the page fills in at 16.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 33.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 6.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The layout shifts by 0.423 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.22 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.9 s to 3.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 102 ms to 119 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.6 MB in 149 requests on a phone: images 3.1 MB (47), scripts 2.5 MB (34) and stylesheets 942 KiB (21). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.88 g of CO₂e: 225.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

Elements with role="dialog" or role="alertdialog" do not have accessible names. (1 element).

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

Headings skip levels (h3 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is 208 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

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

The homepage links to 83 pages on aces.edu and 15 external pages.

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.

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.

/calendar, /discover, /blog/category/alabama-ready, /blog/category/4h, /blog/category/farming and /blog/category/fish-water and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/blog/category/alabama-ready, /blog/category/4h, /blog/category/farming, /blog/category/fish-water, /blog/category/lawn-garden and /blog/category/counties have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/blog/category/farming took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 45 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 ()”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

aces.edu 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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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.

The homepage has only about 5 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be aces.edu is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

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.

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.