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alienmilling.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202638 issues · 106 checks
This review found 38 issues worth fixing on alienmilling.com, 11 of them high impact, across 106 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
66D- #74,519 of 81,761 reviewed websitesbeats 7%
- #38,702 of 40,557 online storesbeats 4%
- #34,664 of 35,937 Shopify storesbeats 3%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 94 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 89 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 90 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
alienmilling.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.1 s · 414 KiBAbout 414 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
1.6 s · 473 KiB8 images could be 473 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.4 s14 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 55
55/100Your mobile performance score is 55. 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 (ZenDesk, Shopify and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 1.2 MB and 603 ms of main-thread time.
ZenDesk adds 204 ms
204 msZenDesk costs a phone 204 ms of main-thread work and 395 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.
Main-thread work: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 923 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
1,854 HTML elements
The page has 1,854 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
200 ms · 84 KiB28 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (84 KiB).
4 long tasks on the main thread
4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 159 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
90 ms · 46 KiBAbout 46 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 90 ms faster on a phone.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
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.
Minify JavaScript
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
1 checks passed
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 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.
Largest Contentful Paint: 14.7 s
14.7 sYour largest element takes 14.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Alien Zirconia Year End Promo”.
Time to Interactive: 15.6 s
15.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 2.7 s
2.7 sReal visitors wait 2.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.12
0.12For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 904 ms
904 msReal visitors wait 904 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Speed Index: 5.3 s
5.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.211
0.211The layout shifts by 0.211 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s
2.5 sThe first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
26 images without width and height
26 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 94 ms to 90 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
2 checks passed
Real-user FCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 164 ms
164 msScripts block the page for only 164 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.8 MB in 175 requests
2.8 MBYour homepage downloads 2.8 MB in 175 requests on a phone: scripts 1.3 MB (104), images 733 KiB (22) and other files 474 KiB (24). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
4 images far larger than shown
313 KiB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example slide_2.jpg at 1,823 px wide, shown at 360 px. Resized copies would save about 313 KiB.
About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.80 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.80 g of CO₂e: 96.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
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.
Accessibility
Hidden but focusable
2 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
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.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (3 elements)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, 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 22 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (70 characters)
Your title is 70 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Alien Milling Technologies - Online Dental Milling Center and Services”.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
Meta description is long (172 characters)
Your meta description is 172 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
211 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 211 pages on alienmilling.com and 8 external pages.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.alienmilling.com/.
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.alienmilling.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.
3 checks passed
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 (752 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
3 pages without a meta description
/pages/trade-shows, /pages/customer-reviews and /apps/help-center have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
/pages/how-to-send-a-case has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 87 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 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.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
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
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=5117309&Ver=2&mid=adbee97b-6718-405b-9200-eb0ce893bb7f&bo=1&sid=fb22dea0db7811f196efdfe13d564aa5&vid=fb22ea40db7811f1a8e959971e66ae66&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg=.
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
23 of 25 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
3 broken links to your own pages
3 links from your homepage to your own site are broken, for example https://www.alienmilling.com/collections (network).
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://dlat.wildapricot.org/ (404).
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
2 links through redirect chains
2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://instagram.com/alien_milling.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (alienmilling.com).
Valid certificate (46 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for alienmilling.com and is valid for another 46 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.
http:// redirects to https
http://alienmilling.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.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
alienmilling.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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 11 years old
11 yearsalienmilling.com was registered in Jul 2015 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only ssl.com, digicert.com, globalsign.com and letsencrypt.org to issue certificates for alienmilling.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Jul 2027
alienmilling.com is registered until Jul 2027.
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.
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: 17 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 328 words of copy
The homepage carries about 328 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
6 checks passed
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “| Sign up!”, “Contact Us” and “Shop by Brand + -”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Meta Pixel.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
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.
3 checks passed
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.google.com include:shops.shopify.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mail.zendesk.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google” and “k2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads (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.
13 cookies set on arrival
13Opening the homepage sets 13 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.
33 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 33 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.
Apps your storefront loads
Pagefly Ai Page Builder · File Uploads By Uploadkit · shopapps.site · eventscalendar.co · stamped.io · okasconcepts.com · getuploadkit.com · chimpstatic.com
Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info
Upkeep, stack and company
- It loads jQuery 1.11.0, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).
Stack
- Framework
- Vue.js
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Employees
- 32
- Headquarters
- Glendora
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 38 issues on alienmilling.com, including 18 speed issues, 4 SEO issues and 3 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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