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aercmn.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202628 issues · 97 checks
This review found 28 issues worth fixing on aercmn.com, 4 of them high impact, across 97 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
87BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 112 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 111 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 106 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 110 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 111 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 135 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 133 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
aercmn.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.0 s · 1.2 MB21 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.2 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
750 ms · 429 KiBAbout 429 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 68
68/100Your mobile performance score is 68 (desktop: 67). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Google CDN and others), adding 1.0 MB and 832 ms of main-thread time.
Google Tag Manager adds 521 ms
521 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 521 ms of main-thread work and 746 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.
Facebook adds 253 ms
253 msFacebook costs a phone 253 ms of main-thread work and 280 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.
7 long tasks on the main thread
7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 198 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
100 ms · 12 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 100 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
21 KiB3 images could be 21 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Reduce unused CSS
14 KiBAbout 14 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
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Main-thread work: 1.6 s
A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 846 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
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Time to Interactive: 15.3 s
15.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.5 s
5.5 sYour largest element takes 5.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Aerial view of one of AERC Minnesota's emergency veterinary…”.
Tap response (INP) got 20% slower for real visitors
+20%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 112 ms to 133 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user TTFB: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 383 ms
383 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 383 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 3.7 s
3.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user LCP: 2.1 s
2.1 sReal visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 138 ms
138 msReal visitors wait 138 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
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: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s
1.7 sThe first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.002
0.002The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.002, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.1 MB in 49 requests
2.1 MBYour homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 49 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (14), fonts 695 KiB (8) and images 295 KiB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit
0.60 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.60 g of CO₂e: 72.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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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
All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
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.
The skip-link target should exist and be focusable (1 element)
The skip-link target should exist and be focusable: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (4 elements)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
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Every image has alt text
All 24 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
38 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: 38 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (19 characters)
Your title is only 19 characters: “Veterinarian | AERC”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (untyped) but with 1 problem, for example “ld+json block 1 is not valid JSON (Unexpected token '/', ..." // Beyond "... is not va)”.
2 links with vague text
2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
56 internal links, 18 external
The homepage links to 56 pages on aercmn.com and 18 external pages.
4 checks passed
Meta description: 156 characters
Your meta description is 156 characters: “Caring for pets in the Twin Cities since 1980, AERC provides emergency veterinary care 24/7 and specialty care by appoi…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Veterinary Care Rooted in Trust—and Right Here in the Twin Cities”.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.aercmn.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.
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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 (841 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 32 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
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.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
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
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
46 of 52 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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.
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 180 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
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.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (aercmn.com).
Valid certificate (41 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR1 verifies for aercmn.com and is valid for another 41 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
http:// redirects to https
http://aercmn.com redirects to the secure version.
All 43 links work
All 43 links checked from your homepage (33 internal, 10 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
Domain expires in 34 days
aercmn.com is registered until Nov 2026. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.
No CAA record
aercmn.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
aercmn.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 14 years old
14 yearsaercmn.com was registered in Nov 2011 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 3 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 809 words of copy
The homepage carries about 809 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: “CONTACT” and “Appointment Request”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Appointment Request” and “Shop Our Store”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 8 phone links and 1 email link.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 85/100
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 in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf.securence.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (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.
10 cookies set on arrival
10Opening the homepage sets 10 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
- It loads jQuery 3.3.1, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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