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acibrands.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202647 issues · 105 checks
This review found 47 issues worth fixing on acibrands.com, 14 of them high impact, across 105 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
75CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 925 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 925 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 886 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 853 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.2 s |
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
4.8 s3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.8 s.
Improve image delivery
1.6 s · 922 KiB46 images could be 922 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.
Minify JavaScript
1.4 s · 262 KiB262 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.1 s · 315 KiBAbout 315 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 44
44/100Your mobile performance score is 44 (desktop: 73). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Accessibe Accessibility Overlay and cloudfront.net and others), adding 3.6 MB and 783 ms of main-thread time.
website-files.com adds 294 ms
294 mswebsite-files.com costs a phone 294 ms of main-thread work and 2.9 MB 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.
9 long tasks on the main thread
9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 323 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Accessibe Accessibility Overlay adds 273 ms
273 msAccessibe Accessibility Overlay costs a phone 273 ms of main-thread work and 242 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: 2.4 s
A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 831 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Reduce unused CSS
20 KiBAbout 20 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 73 but mobile only 44. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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.
Minify CSS
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 14.3 s
14.3 sYour largest element takes 14.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “1 of 6”.
First Contentful Paint: 5.4 s
5.4 sThe first text or image appears after 5.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 15.2 s
15.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 7.0 s
7.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 7.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 29% slower for real visitors
+29%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.9 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Total Blocking Time: 594 ms
594 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 594 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
30 images without width and height
30 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
6 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: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 670 ms
670 msReal visitors wait 670 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.8 MB in 171 requests
3.8 MBYour homepage downloads 3.8 MB in 171 requests on a phone: images 2.2 MB (141), scripts 1.0 MB (12) and fonts 521 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
10 images in older formats
10 images (750 KiB) are 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.
6 images below the first screen load straight away
6 images further down the page (511 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
5 images far larger than shown
151 KiB5 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 65c1477e701e0b0a5b755256_SPORTCRAFT_LOGO.png at 550 px wide, shown at 144 px. Resized copies would save about 151 KiB.
About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.06 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.06 g of CO₂e: 127.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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.
<html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)
<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 tap target too small
1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (28 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 28 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
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.
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.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
No page language
The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 195 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
33 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 41 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 33 passed and 8 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Title is short (15 characters)
Your title is only 15 characters: “ACI Brands Inc.”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
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 (382 characters)
Your meta description is 382 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
4 links with vague text
4 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
23 internal links, 42 external
The homepage links to 23 pages on acibrands.com and 42 external pages.
3 checks passed
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.acibrands.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
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.
2 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 (485 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 linked page hidden from search
/why-aci-brands is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
2 pages without a meta description
/terms-and-conditions and /privacy-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
5 pages without an H1
/fashion-division-02, /beauty-division-02, /sporting-goods-division-02, /about-us and /contact-us have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
9 internal pages checked
We fetched 9 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 9 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.
Every page has a title
All 9 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
16 small tap targets
16 of 43 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
Scrolls sideways on phones
On a 390 px-wide phone the page scrolls sideways, a sign that something is wider than the screen.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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.
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 (acibrands.com).
Valid certificate (83 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for acibrands.com and is valid for another 83 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://acibrands.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 30 links work
All 30 links checked from your homepage (10 internal, 20 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
acibrands.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
acibrands.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 18 years old
18 yearsacibrands.com was registered in Mar 2008 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Mar 2027
acibrands.com is registered until Mar 2027.
Content and conversion
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.
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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 428 words of copy
The homepage carries about 428 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “CONTACT US”, “Learn more” and “GET IN TOUCH”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 174 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be acibrands.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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.
2 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 a:dispatch-us.ppe-hosted.com ip4:24.137.220.186 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.psm.knowbe4.com …”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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.
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 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.
12 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2025.
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