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aleran.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202639 issues · 100 checks
This review found 39 issues worth fixing on aleran.com, 14 of them high impact, across 100 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
68DClosest competitors among SaaS websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.2 s · 1.5 MBAbout 1.5 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.2 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
3.4 s · 810 KiB29 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (810 KiB).
Render-blocking requests
3.5 s6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.5 s.
Mobile performance score: 34
34/100Your mobile performance score is 34. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 4.0 s
A phone's processor spends 4.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (hsappstatic.net, Hubspot and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 3.0 MB and 1.8 s of main-thread time.
hsappstatic.net adds 576 ms
576 mshsappstatic.net costs a phone 576 ms of main-thread work and 1.7 MB 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.
Hubspot adds 444 ms
444 msHubspot costs a phone 444 ms of main-thread work and 742 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 175 KiBAbout 175 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 430 ms
430 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 430 ms of main-thread work and 339 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.
16 long tasks on the main thread
16 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 337 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
1,723 HTML elements
The page has 1,723 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Legacy JavaScript
37 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 37 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Improve image delivery
17 KiB3 images could be 17 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 37 ms
37 msYour server sent the HTML in 37 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
First Contentful Paint: 7.8 s
7.8 sThe first text or image appears after 7.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 24.7 s
24.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 24.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.8 s
7.8 sYour largest element takes 7.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Aleran sits in front of the ERP you already run. Your custo…”.
Speed Index: 11.0 s
11.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 11.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.0 s
1.0 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.0 s 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.
1 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.2 MB in 150 requests
4.2 MBYour homepage downloads 4.2 MB in 150 requests on a phone: scripts 2.6 MB (51), fonts 1.1 MB (27) and HTML 223 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.20 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.20 g of CO₂e: 143.9 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
62 text elements with low contrast
62 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (63 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 63 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.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h4, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 28 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 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 36 passed and 6 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 long (77 characters)
Your title is 77 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “ERP-Connected Commerce, CPQ and Portals for Industrial Manufacturers | Aleran”.
Meta description is long (166 characters)
Your meta description is 166 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
5 links with vague text
5 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
116 internal links, 6 external
The homepage links to 116 pages on aleran.com and 6 external pages.
6 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “The sales and commerce layer for manufacturers — connected to your ERP, run by your business team.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.aleran.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, ImageObject, Organization and Person.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
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.aleran.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
robots.txt blocks 3 AI answer engine crawlers
3 of 6Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User) and Perplexity (PerplexityBot). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles) 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.
Opted out of AI training for 5 crawlers
robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.
2 checks passed
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,657 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 53 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
/cpq-for-manufacturing and /cpq all use the title “CPQ for manufacturing”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
9 pages without a meta description
/platform-security, /catalog-embedded-buying, /customer-portals, /b2b-integrations, /sales-pim and /sales-order-management and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
9 pages without an H1
/platform-security, /catalog-embedded-buying, /customer-portals, /b2b-integrations, /sales-pim and /sales-order-management and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page slow to respond
/pricing took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 56 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
9 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 9 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 broken images
2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://pixel.visitiq.io/dot/0cf9f841-9a7a-4ad4-8784-ca3e7f0f9158?cbust=3249581344308714.5&ga_session_id=1793874448&url_path=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aleran.com%2F.
Scrolls sideways on phones
On a 390 px-wide phone the page scrolls sideways, a sign that something is wider than the screen.
1 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “(0 , C.__dangerousOptInToUnstableAPIsOnlyForCoreModules) is not a function”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No HSTS header
No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
No clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
No X-Content-Type-Options
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
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 (aleran.com).
Valid certificate (76 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for aleran.com and is valid for another 76 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://aleran.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, 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; 24 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
aleran.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
aleran.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 21 years old
21 yearsaleran.com was registered in Apr 2005 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Apr 2028
aleran.com is registered until Apr 2028.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 7 customer or partner logos. 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 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 2,457 words of copy
The homepage carries about 2,457 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “See a 3-Minute Demo”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER”, “Contact We’d love to hear from you.” and “Talk to Sales”.
1 short form
A short form (2 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Hotjar and HubSpot.
Email authentication
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: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine 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 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 1 more (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.
16 cookies set on arrival
16Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
37 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 37 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
- 1 plugin is behind its latest release.gtranslate 3.1.2 → 5.0.2
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager | Hotjar
- Hosting
- WP Engine
Hiring
- Hiring
- 2 open roles
- Job board
- careers page
- Careers page
- www.aleran.com/careers (opens in a new tab)
Company
- Headquarters
- Minneapolis
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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