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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 19 October 202638 issues · 109 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on alku.com, 16 of them high impact, across 109 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.6 s1.2 sApr 25Oct 102.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 25, 20261.6 s
May 2, 20261.6 s
May 9, 20261.6 s
May 16, 20261.4 s
May 23, 20261.5 s
May 30, 20261.5 s
Jun 6, 20261.5 s
Jun 13, 20261.5 s
Jun 20, 20261.4 s
Jun 27, 20261.3 s
Jul 4, 20261.4 s
Jul 11, 20261.4 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.4 s
Aug 1, 20261.4 s
Aug 8, 20261.4 s
Aug 15, 20261.5 s
Aug 22, 20261.5 s
Aug 29, 20261.6 s
Sep 5, 20261.8 s
Sep 12, 20262.1 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
96 ms77 msApr 25Oct 1094 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 25, 202683 ms
May 2, 202684 ms
May 9, 202684 ms
May 16, 202680 ms
May 23, 202684 ms
May 30, 202683 ms
Jun 6, 202680 ms
Jun 13, 202680 ms
Jun 20, 202680 ms
Jun 27, 202679 ms
Jul 4, 202679 ms
Jul 11, 202679 ms
Jul 18, 202679 ms
Jul 25, 202679 ms
Aug 1, 202679 ms
Aug 8, 202679 ms
Aug 15, 202679 ms
Aug 22, 202683 ms
Aug 29, 202687 ms
Sep 5, 202688 ms
Sep 12, 202688 ms
Sep 19, 202687 ms
Sep 26, 202687 ms
Oct 3, 202688 ms
Oct 10, 202694 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

Full-page screenshot of alku.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

13 to fix34
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.1 s · 922 KiB

    About 922 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.3 s

    12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.3 s.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.2 s · 305 KiB

    15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (305 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 34

    34/100

    Your mobile performance score is 34 (desktop: 90). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 7.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 7.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.1 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 (Google Tag Manager, Drift and Hubspot and others), adding 2.3 MB and 2.4 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 882 ms

    882 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 882 ms of main-thread work and 739 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.

  • Drift adds 648 ms

    648 ms

    Drift costs a phone 648 ms of main-thread work and 814 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    450 ms · 54 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 54 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 389 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 37 KiB

    About 37 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.

  • Hubspot adds 282 ms

    282 ms

    Hubspot costs a phone 282 ms of main-thread work and 137 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.

  • Google CDN adds 241 ms

    241 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 241 ms of main-thread work and 347 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.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 90 but mobile only 34. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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 CSS

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Minify JavaScript

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 13.8 s

    13.8 s

    Your largest element takes 13.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “At ALKU, we deliver efficient and effective solutions to me…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 21.9 s

    21.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 21.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.7 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Speed Index: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 49% slower for real visitors

    +49%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • 2 images without width and height

    2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 83 ms to 94 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 91 ms

    91 ms

    Real visitors wait 91 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 753 ms

    753 ms

    Real visitors wait 753 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 6.3 MB in 169 requests

    6.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 6.3 MB in 169 requests on a phone: media 3.6 MB (1), scripts 2.6 MB (100) and stylesheets 85 KiB (17). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.79 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.79 g of CO₂e: 215.0 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

9 to fixGoogle 7688
  • Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (1 element)

    Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 1 button without a name

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

  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

    2 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 (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.

  • Links look like plain text

    1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

  • Headings should not be empty (2 elements)

    Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 4 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 44 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 8 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9295
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 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.

  • 168 internal links, 33 external

    The homepage links to 168 pages on alku.com and 33 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 123 characters

    Your meta description is 123 characters: “We are experts in deploying niche consultants across Technologies, Healthcare IT, Life Sciences, and Government industr…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Specialized Staffing Solutions”.

  • Title: 60 characters

    Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “ALKU: Specialized Consulting Services | From Start to Finish”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.alku.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.alku.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.

2 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 (1,211 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 40 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

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 3 small tap targets

    3 of 15 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

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

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix88
  • 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 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (alku.com).

  • Valid certificate (135 days left)

    The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01 verifies for alku.com and is valid for another 135 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://alku.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 59 links work

    All 59 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 19 external) answered without errors; 13 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    alku.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

    alku.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 26 years old

    26 years

    alku.com was registered in Mar 2000 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Mar 2027

    alku.com is registered until Mar 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix83
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust 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 755 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 755 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Request Expert Support”.

  • 14 calls to action

    The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Request Contracting Support”, “Join Our Team” and “Request Expert Support”.

  • 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 and Microsoft Clarity.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

Email authentication

85
  • 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:spf1.alku.com include:spf2.alku.com include:_spf.bullhornmail.com include:22019173.spf08.hubspotemail.ne…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector2”, “k2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 2 mores (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.

  • 32 cookies set on arrival

    32

    Opening the homepage sets 32 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 43 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 43 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

  • It runs WordPress 6.8.1; the current release is 7.1.3.
  • 2 plugins are behind their latest release.contact-form-7 6.1.7 → 6.2.2 · wpo365-login 43.4 → 45.0

Stack

CMS
WordPress 6.8.1
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity

Hiring

Hiring
14 open roles
Teams
Revenue-Producing (11), Corporate Team (1), Office Operations (1), Technology (1)
Job board
greenhouse

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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