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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 31 October 202642 issues · 108 checks

This review found 42 issues worth fixing on acetool.com, 15 of them high impact, across 108 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
2.9 s2.3 sMay 9Oct 242.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.7 s
May 16, 20262.8 s
May 23, 20262.8 s
May 30, 20262.8 s
Jun 6, 20262.8 s
Jun 13, 20262.7 s
Jun 20, 20262.8 s
Jun 27, 20262.8 s
Jul 4, 20262.8 s
Jul 11, 20262.8 s
Jul 18, 20262.8 s
Jul 25, 20262.8 s
Aug 1, 20262.7 s
Aug 8, 20262.7 s
Aug 15, 20262.7 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.8 s
Sep 5, 20262.7 s
Sep 12, 20262.6 s
Sep 19, 20262.5 s
Sep 26, 20262.5 s
Oct 3, 20262.4 s
Oct 10, 20262.4 s
Oct 17, 20262.4 s
Oct 24, 20262.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
167 ms135 msMay 9Oct 24153 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026139 ms
May 16, 2026146 ms
May 23, 2026146 ms
May 30, 2026149 ms
Jun 6, 2026152 ms
Jun 13, 2026150 ms
Jun 20, 2026153 ms
Jun 27, 2026149 ms
Jul 4, 2026148 ms
Jul 11, 2026149 ms
Jul 18, 2026147 ms
Jul 25, 2026153 ms
Aug 1, 2026154 ms
Aug 8, 2026154 ms
Aug 15, 2026155 ms
Aug 22, 2026154 ms
Aug 29, 2026155 ms
Sep 5, 2026160 ms
Sep 12, 2026161 ms
Sep 19, 2026163 ms
Sep 26, 2026160 ms
Oct 3, 2026154 ms
Oct 10, 2026154 ms
Oct 17, 2026153 ms
Oct 24, 2026153 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 acetool.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. acetool.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  2. acetool.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  3. acetool.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  4. acetool.com at 3.1 s3.1 s
  5. acetool.com at 3.9 s3.9 s
  6. acetool.com at 4.6 s4.6 s
  7. acetool.com at 5.4 s5.4 s
  8. acetool.com at 6.2 s6.2 s

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

Speed

8 to fix58
  • Improve image delivery

    3.5 s · 1.5 MB

    10 images could be 1.5 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.9 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    600 ms · 1.2 MB

    About 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    800 ms · 340 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (340 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 58

    58/100

    Your mobile performance score is 58. 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 (makitatools.com, Shopify and Klaviyo and others), adding 1.7 MB and 711 ms of main-thread time.

  • Main-thread work: 2.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • makitatools.com adds 149 ms

    149 ms

    makitatools.com costs a phone 149 ms of main-thread work and 519 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 51 KiB

    About 51 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.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 177 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    35 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 35 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Minify JavaScript

    17 KiB

    17 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 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: 10 ms

    10 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 12.3 s

    12.3 s

    Your largest element takes 12.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 39.7 s

    39.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 39.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 14.9 s

    14.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 14.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 18 images without width and height

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 209 ms

    209 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 209 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 139 ms to 153 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • 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: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 137 ms

    137 ms

    Real visitors wait 137 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.01

    0.01

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 559 ms

    559 ms

    Real visitors wait 559 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 14% faster for real visitors

    -14%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.007

    0.007

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.007, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix50
  • Page weight: 7.9 MB in 268 requests

    7.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 7.9 MB in 268 requests on a phone: HTML 2.8 MB (3), scripts 2.1 MB (94) and images 1.9 MB (28). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 9 images far larger than shown

    816 KiB

    9 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Husqvarna_Homepage_Banner_1.png at 1,400 px wide, shown at 350 px. Resized copies would save about 816 KiB.

  • 2 images below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (248 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (30 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 2.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.24 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.24 g of CO₂e: 269.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

10 to fixGoogle 8787
  • 3 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 3 tap targets too small

    3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation (1 element)

    Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (25 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 25 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 14 links without text

    14 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 5 form fields without a label

    5 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (8 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 44 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 39 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 39 passed and 9 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 7764
  • No page title

    Your page has no <title>, so Google has to invent the blue link in search results.

  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • 85 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 85 pages on acetool.com and 13 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization 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.acetool.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, 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 (591 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix62
  • 15 pages without a title

    /pages/contact, /customer_authentication/redirect, /pages/tool-deals, /pages/whats-new, /pages/accessories and /pages/brand-new and 9 others have no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    /customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 15 pages without a meta description

    /pages/contact, /customer_authentication/redirect, /pages/tool-deals, /pages/whats-new, /pages/accessories and /pages/brand-new and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 12 pages without an H1

    /pages/contact, /customer_authentication/redirect, /pages/tool-deals, /pages/whats-new, /pages/accessories and /pages/brand-new and 6 others have 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 49 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9291
  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

  • 8 distorted images

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

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    19 of 21 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.acetool.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en&region_country=US.

  • 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.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • 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 (acetool.com).

  • Valid certificate (32 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for acetool.com and is valid for another 32 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

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

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://acetool.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 45 links work

    All 45 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 5 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    acetool.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 26 years old

    26 years

    acetool.com was registered in Dec 1999 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

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

  • Registered until Dec 2030

    acetool.com is registered until Dec 2030.

Content and conversion

2 to fix83
  • No call to action on the first screen

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

  • 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 opening hours

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

  • About 439 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 439 words of visible text.

7 checks passed
  • 15 calls to action

    The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Give us a call! 1-877-783-8899”, “Contact Us” and “SHOP NOW”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 45 testimonial or review blocks, 1 customer or partner logo, a star rating, 2 trust badges and “100K+ Satisfied Customers”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Hotjar.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 2 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

2 to fix60
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be acetool.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Email authentication score: 60/100

    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.

1 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:edgepilot.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:spf.emailsignatures365.com include:spf.protection.outlook…”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 1 more (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.

  • 17 cookies set on arrival

    17

    Opening the homepage sets 17 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.

  • 36 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 36 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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