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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202640 issues · 88 checks

This review found 40 issues worth fixing on activepower.com, 12 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Full-page screenshot of activepower.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

10 to fix43
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    6.0 s · 841 KiB

    About 841 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.5 s

    14 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.5 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 43

    43/100

    Your mobile performance score is 43. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.5 MB and 822 ms of main-thread time.

  • Google CDN adds 538 ms

    538 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 538 ms of main-thread work and 736 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    500 ms · 48 KiB

    5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (48 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    320 ms · 69 KiB

    About 69 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 320 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 3.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 1,558 HTML elements

    The page has 1,558 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Vimeo adds 51 ms

    51 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 51 ms of main-thread work and 544 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.

  • 14 long tasks on the main thread

    14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 189 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 22 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 22 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 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: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix50
  • First Contentful Paint: 7.6 s

    7.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 7.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 14.4 s

    14.4 s

    Your largest element takes 14.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site yo…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 14.4 s

    14.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 14.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 7.6 s

    7.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 599 ms

    599 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 599 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 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.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix67
  • Page weight: 2.2 MB in 48 requests

    2.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 48 requests on a phone: scripts 1.6 MB (21), other files 359 KiB (12) and fonts 102 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.63 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.63 g of CO₂e: 75.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8891
  • 1 button without a name

    1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 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.

  • 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.

  • 5 links without text

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

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 6 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 36 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 36 passed and 7 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 8569
  • 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 (19 characters)

    Your title is only 19 characters: “Home - Active Power”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 3 links with vague text

    3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 222 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 222 pages on activepower.com and 13 external pages.

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  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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.activepower.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing 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.

  • 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.

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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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,061 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 12 pages without a meta description

    /languages, /about, /sustainability, /blogs, /events and /leadership and 6 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 47 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.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 3383
  • 3 small tap targets

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

  • 2 third-party cookies

    2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

  • Does not redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS

    Does not redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix50
  • No HTTPS

    Your homepage is served without HTTPS, so browsers mark it “Not secure” and some refuse forms on it.

  • http:// does not redirect

    http://activepower.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

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  • All 45 links work

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

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    activepower.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

    activepower.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 30 years old

    30 years

    activepower.com was registered in Aug 1996 through EPAG Domainservices GmbH. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Aug 2027

    activepower.com is registered until Aug 2027.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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.

  • About 750 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 750 words of visible text.

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  • 20 calls to action

    The homepage has 20 calls to action, for example “Buy American Act (BAA)”, “Contact” and “Contact us”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

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

Email authentication

100
  • Email authentication score: 100/100

    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: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject 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 mx ip4:50.108.206.185 ip4:24.227.213.229 ip4:209.141.106.54 ip4:139.29.127.29 ip4:194.180.114.215 ip4:192.254.11…”.

  • DKIM signing found

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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.

  • 9 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Employees
86
Founded
1992
Headquarters
Austin

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