actblue.com website review

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Unpkg and others), adding 1.5 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

About 862 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 81. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 850 ms.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 591 ms of main-thread work and 524 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.

15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (451 KiB).

A phone's processor spends 3.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 266 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Unpkg costs a phone 167 ms of main-thread work and 501 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.

1 image could be 194 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

About 17 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 120 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 49 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 16.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 771 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 111 ms to 126 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.7 MB in 117 requests on a phone: scripts 1.7 MB (52), images 784 KiB (13) and fonts 113 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images (87 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.76 g of CO₂e: 91.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Your title is 98 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “ActBlue: Elevate Your Fundraising - Create Campaigns for Political Offices, Charities & N…”.

The homepage links to 64 pages on actblue.com and 22 external pages.

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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 22 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=97176696&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=6ef9d33f-d888-46c3-aaeb-6a9f65ec8342&bo=1&sid=cfa6cce0d7ac11f1b967bb7f71a5566f&vid=cfa6f300d7ac11f1bd42418941a87719&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

7 of 13 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://secure.actblue.com/signin.

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.

actblue.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.

Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 445 words of visible text.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 4 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.

Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 33 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.