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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 19 October 202642 issues · 90 checks

This review found 42 issues worth fixing on acilearning.com, 18 of them high impact, across 90 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
2.6 s1.9 sApr 25Oct 102.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 25, 20262.4 s
May 2, 20262.5 s
May 9, 20262.4 s
May 16, 20262.4 s
May 23, 20262.4 s
May 30, 20262.3 s
Jun 6, 20262.2 s
Jun 13, 20262.2 s
Jun 20, 20262.1 s
Jun 27, 20262.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.0 s
Jul 11, 20262.0 s
Jul 18, 20262.1 s
Jul 25, 20262.1 s
Aug 1, 20262.1 s
Aug 8, 20262.1 s
Aug 15, 20262.1 s
Aug 22, 20262.1 s
Aug 29, 20262.1 s
Sep 5, 20262.3 s
Sep 12, 20262.3 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.4 s
Oct 3, 20262.4 s
Oct 10, 20262.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
245 ms134 msApr 25Oct 10204 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 25, 2026222 ms
May 2, 2026232 ms
May 9, 2026217 ms
May 16, 2026204 ms
May 23, 2026205 ms
May 30, 2026184 ms
Jun 6, 2026176 ms
Jun 13, 2026169 ms
Jun 20, 2026147 ms
Jun 27, 2026155 ms
Jul 4, 2026154 ms
Jul 11, 2026155 ms
Jul 18, 2026156 ms
Jul 25, 2026155 ms
Aug 1, 2026156 ms
Aug 8, 2026152 ms
Aug 15, 2026175 ms
Aug 22, 2026175 ms
Aug 29, 2026170 ms
Sep 5, 2026172 ms
Sep 12, 2026177 ms
Sep 19, 2026180 ms
Sep 26, 2026195 ms
Oct 3, 2026220 ms
Oct 10, 2026204 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 acilearning.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

12 to fix32
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    5.7 s · 1.3 MB

    46 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.3 MB).

  • Improve image delivery

    4.0 s · 715 KiB

    4 images could be 715 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.9 s · 850 KiB

    About 850 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 32

    32/100

    Your mobile performance score is 32 (desktop: 61). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 5.8 s

    A phone's processor spends 5.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.3 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 (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Intercom and others), adding 1.4 MB and 2.0 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 785 ms

    785 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 785 ms of main-thread work and 531 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

    465 KiB

    About 465 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Facebook adds 423 ms

    423 ms

    Facebook costs a phone 423 ms of main-thread work and 251 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    300 ms · 20 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 20 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 290 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Intercom adds 256 ms

    256 ms

    Intercom costs a phone 256 ms of main-thread work and 290 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.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 61 but mobile only 32. 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.

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  • Server response: 111 ms

    111 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 111 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 18.2 s

    18.2 s

    Your largest element takes 18.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Turn learning into career-ready IT skills”.

  • Time to Interactive: 24.3 s

    24.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 24.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.7 s

    4.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.8 s

    6.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 24 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 222 ms to 204 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.4 s to 2.5 s 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: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    Real visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 185 ms

    185 ms

    Real visitors wait 185 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • 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 FCP: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

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

  • Real-user TTFB: 669 ms

    669 ms

    Real visitors wait 669 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

4 to fix58
  • Page weight: 3.4 MB in 128 requests

    3.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 128 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (46), images 824 KiB (28) and HTML 499 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (736 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.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (500 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 2 images far larger than shown

    86 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example end_user_aci_learning_training_cf2af5500b.png at 1,023 px wide, shown at 318 px. Resized copies would save about 86 KiB.

  • About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.96 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.96 g of CO₂e: 115.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9294
  • Hidden but focusable

    11 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (15 elements).

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  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 4 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 10064
  • No page title

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

  • No H1 headline

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

  • 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.

  • Only 0 internal links

    The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

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  • Meta description: 160 characters

    Your meta description is 160 characters: “Get hands-on cybersecurity training and IT courses built for real results. Train your team or learn on your own to buil…”.

  • 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.acilearning.com/sitemap-index.xml.

AI search readiness

2 to fix63
  • Most text only appears after JavaScript runs

    0%

    A phone browser shows 861 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 0. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.

  • 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.

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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.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (5 KiB, 0 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 9671
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=343131512&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=cd4991dd-25eb-4c02-9f01-72b4a8d2766c&bo=1&sid=a1da9960cb7b11f198015fe87ca4ab6c&vid=a1dadd90cb7b11f1a45db3e46475db6f&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=9.

  • 3 small tap targets

    3 of 14 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 “Error: <svg> attribute height: Expected length, "auto".”.

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  • 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 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 (acilearning.com).

  • Valid certificate (62 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for acilearning.com and is valid for another 62 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

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

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    acilearning.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 6 years old

    6 years

    acilearning.com was registered in Jan 2020 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

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

  • Registered until Jan 2029

    acilearning.com is registered until Jan 2029.

Content and conversion

4 to fix40
  • No calls to action

    We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

  • No social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • 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 861 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 861 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: “Start Today”.

Email authentication

90
  • Email authentication score: 90/100

    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: quarantine

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

  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:_spf1.acilearning.com include:_spf2.acilearning.com include:_spf3.acilearning.com include:mail.zendesk.c…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “k2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 10 trackers load before any consent

    10

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 5 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 16 cookies set on arrival

    16

    Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 49 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 49 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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  • Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner

    A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
Gatsby
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Netlify

Hiring

Hiring
6 open roles
Teams
Tech Academy Admissions (2), CorpGov Sales (1), Sales (1), Success - Career Mentors (1)
Job board
greenhouse

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