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albourne.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 30 October 202625 issues · 81 checks
This review found 25 issues worth fixing on albourne.com, 7 of them high impact, across 81 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
78CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne 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
albourne.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
2.4 s20 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.4 s.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 1.4 MB4 images could be 1.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 59
59/100Your mobile performance score is 59. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 91 KiBAbout 91 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Font display
200 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).
Reduce unused JavaScript
150 ms · 30 KiBAbout 30 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.
Minify JavaScript
25 KiB25 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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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Main-thread work: 1.2 s
A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 266 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 156 ms
156 msYour server sent the HTML in 156 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 16.3 s
16.3 sYour largest element takes 16.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “A global investment advisor specializing in the alternative…”.
Time to Interactive: 16.8 s
16.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 16.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 5.0 s
5.0 sThe first text or image appears after 5.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 7.1 s
7.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 7.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
17 images without width and height
17 images 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.
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Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.032
0.032The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.032, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.0 MB in 79 requests
4.0 MBYour homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 79 requests on a phone: images 2.5 MB (19), HTML 606 KiB (1) and fonts 487 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.14 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.14 g of CO₂e: 136.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
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.
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Every image has alt text
All 21 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
6 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 8 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 6 passed and 2 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (15 characters)
Your title is only 15 characters: “Home | Albourne”. 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 canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
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://www-us.albourne.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at www-us.albourne.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
103 internal links, 6 external
The homepage links to 103 pages on albourne.com and 6 external pages.
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Meta description: 158 characters
Your meta description is 158 characters: “Albourne’s mission: be the leading provider of research and advice on complicated assets - hedge funds, private equity,…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “A global investment advisor specializing in the alternatives industry since 1994 AT ALBOURNE WE AIM TO EMPOWER OUR CLIE…”.
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.
Other pages
3 pages without a meta description
/albourne/cookies, /albourne/albournesignin and /albourne/requestaccess have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page slow to respond
/albourne/requestaccess took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 50 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
4 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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 4 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
2 redirects before the homepage
Opening https://albourne.com goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.
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.
8 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (www-us.albourne.com).
Valid certificate (129 days left)
The certificate from SwissSign AG · SwissSign RSA TLS DV ICA 2022 - 1 verifies for albourne.com and is valid for another 129 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://albourne.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 46 links work
All 46 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 6 external) answered without errors; 33 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
4 checks passed
Domain is 29 years old
29 yearsalbourne.com was registered in Aug 1997 through INWX GmbH. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only digicert.com, swisssign.com and swisssign.net to issue certificates for albourne.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
DNSSEC is on
albourne.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.
Registered until Jul 2030
albourne.com is registered until Jul 2030.
Content and conversion
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.
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 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 2,626 words of copy
The homepage carries about 2,626 words of visible text.
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8 calls to action
The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Request Access Now”, “Contact Us” and “Request Access”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 3 customer or partner logos, 3 trust badges and “350 + Clients”.
Email authentication
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.
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: 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 include:_spf4.albourne.com include:_spf6.albourne.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads HubSpot (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.
1 cookie set on arrival
1Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (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.
1 other company contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
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- Hosting
- Frankfurt-Munich-Stuttgart-Amsterdam-London
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