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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202631 issues · 77 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on acscout.com, 9 of them high impact, across 77 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
78C- #55,488 of 109,249 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #36,283 of 61,832 online storesbeats 36%
- #279 of 749 BigCommerce storesbeats 57%
Closest competitors among BigCommerce stores
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.0 s13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.
Mobile performance score: 88
88/100Your mobile performance score is 88. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
250 ms · 47 KiB26 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (47 KiB).
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (Bigcommerce and Google Fonts), adding 295 KiB and 98 ms of main-thread time.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 73 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Reduce unused JavaScript
21 KiBAbout 21 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Minify JavaScript
12 KiB12 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Reduce unused CSS
11 KiBAbout 11 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
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.
Improve image delivery
5 KiB1 image could be 5 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Minify CSS
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.3 s
A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 88 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.3 s
3.3 sYour largest element takes 3.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “ACScout”.
First Contentful Paint: 2.4 s
2.4 sThe first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
1 image without width and height
1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
4 checks passed
Speed Index: 3.4 s
3.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.4 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Time to Interactive: 3.3 s
3.3 sThe page is fully interactive after 3.3 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 23 ms
23 msScripts block the page for only 23 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.09 g of CO₂ per visit
0.09 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.09 g of CO₂e: 11.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 333 KiB in 35 requests
333 KiBYour homepage downloads 333 KiB in 35 requests on a phone: fonts 147 KiB (5), scripts 121 KiB (16) and stylesheets 48 KiB (9). That is a lean page.
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
1 button without a name
1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
4 text elements with low contrast
4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Form elements should have a visible label (1 element)
Form elements should have a visible label: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (11 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 11 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.
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.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
20 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 28 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 20 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 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.
Title is short (7 characters)
Your title is only 7 characters: “ACScout”. 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 social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://acscout.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
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.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
38 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 38 pages on acscout.com and 3 external pages.
2 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.acscout.com/.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
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 https://acscout.com/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.
1 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.
Other pages
6 pages share 3 titles
https://acscout.com/acscout-net and https://acscout.com/acscout-net-1 all use the title “ACScout-NET - ACScout”, and 2 other titles repeat too. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
10 pages without a meta description
https://acscout.com/acscout, https://acscout.com/acscout-net, https://acscout.com/acscout-netbb, https://acscout.com/acscout-v3, https://acscout.com/about-us and https://acscout.com/testimonials and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
4 pages share a meta description
https://acscout.com/acscout-netbb-1, https://acscout.com/acscout-net-1, https://acscout.com/acscout-v3-1 and https://acscout.com/acscout-netbb-sold-out use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 link to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://acscout.com/acscout-netbb-1, whose canonical is https://acscout.com/acscout-netbb-sold-out. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
6 pages with very little text
https://acscout.com/acscout, https://acscout.com/acscout-net, https://acscout.com/acscout-netbb, https://acscout.com/acscout-v3, https://acscout.com/about-us and https://acscout.com/users-manuals have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 17 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
No mobile viewport
No viewport meta tag, so phones render the desktop layout zoomed out.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
15 of 17 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Content and conversion
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 direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
Only about 36 words
The homepage has only about 36 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Call us on (740)-362-8555” and “Shop by Category”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
11 cookies set on arrival
11Opening the homepage sets 11 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.
6 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at acscout.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- BigCommerce
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Bigcommerce
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