and-e.com website review

34 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (5.8 MB).

5 images could be 493 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

Your mobile performance score is 69. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 111 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 17 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Optanon costs a phone 56 ms of main-thread work and 950 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.

About 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 130 ms faster on a phone.

2 third-party services load with your homepage (Optanon and Plausible), adding 953 KiB and 59 ms of main-thread time.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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.

Your largest element takes 7.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 90 ms to 88 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.4 MB in 44 requests on a phone: media 4.9 MB (2), images 1.1 MB (15) and scripts 265 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.81 g of CO₂e: 217.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 dropdown has no label.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

6 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Your title is only 12 characters: “Home - AND-E”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is 252 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 80 pages on and-e.com and 4 external pages.

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.

/company-overview, /company-overview/our-structure, /company-overview/our-history-heritage, /company-overview/our-brands, /company-overview/driven-by-responsibility and /product-overview and 9 others have no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

/company-overview, /company-overview/our-structure, /company-overview/our-history-heritage, /company-overview/our-brands, /company-overview/driven-by-responsibility and /product-overview and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/company-overview, /company-overview/our-structure, /company-overview/our-history-heritage, /company-overview/our-brands, /company-overview/driven-by-responsibility and /product-overview and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 39 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 405 ()”.

1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://careers.and-e.uk/home (404).

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

and-e.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.

and-e.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.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 47 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.