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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 28 October 202631 issues · 100 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on appgate.com, 9 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
67DClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 317 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 328 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 341 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 348 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 355 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 360 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 362 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 364 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 369 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 363 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 356 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 363 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 366 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 382 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 402 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 390 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 392 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 391 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 391 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 396 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 397 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 400 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 403 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 407 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 397 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
0.6 s
1.2 s
1.8 s
2.4 s
3.0 s
3.5 s
4.1 s
4.7 s
appgate.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.6 s · 1,002 KiBAbout 1,002 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.6 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 28
28/100Your mobile performance score is 28 (desktop: 56). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Intercom, Google Tag Manager and pathfactory.com and others), adding 2.0 MB and 1.7 s of main-thread time.
Intercom adds 688 ms
688 msIntercom costs a phone 688 ms of main-thread work and 952 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 Tag Manager adds 622 ms
622 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 622 ms of main-thread work and 539 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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
400 ms · 257 KiB17 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (257 KiB).
Main-thread work: 3.5 s
A phone's processor spends 3.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
14 long tasks on the main thread
14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 309 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
pathfactory.com adds 200 ms
200 mspathfactory.com costs a phone 200 ms of main-thread work and 314 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
150 ms · 34 KiBAbout 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 28 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 28 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
14 KiB1 image could be 14 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 56 but mobile only 28. 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 59 ms
59 msYour server sent the HTML in 59 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: 15.0 s
15.0 sYour largest element takes 15.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 18.7 s
18.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 18.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 10.1 s
10.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 10.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 4.7 s
4.7 sThe first text or image appears after 4.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.1 s
1.1 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
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: 0.16
0.16For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.16 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Tap response (INP) got 25% slower for real visitors
+25%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 317 ms to 397 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 2.4 s
2.4 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.161
0.161The layout shifts by 0.161 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Largest content (LCP) got 18% slower for real visitors
+18%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.1 s to 3.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.3 MB in 75 requests
2.3 MBYour homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 75 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (23), images 199 KiB (21) and fonts 98 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.66 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.66 g of CO₂e: 79.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 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.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 70 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
2 links crawlers can't follow
2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
178 internal links, 10 external
The homepage links to 178 pages on appgate.com and 10 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 156 characters
Your meta description is 156 characters: “AppGate ZTNA is the direct-routed Zero Trust Network Access platform for enterprise IT, OT and AI. Cloak infrastructure…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “The ZTNA Platform For Enterprise IT, OT and AI”.
Title: 51 characters
Your title is a healthy 51 characters: “Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Platform | AppGate”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.appgate.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
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.appgate.com/sitemaps-3-sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,529 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (14 KiB, 60 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without an H1
/resources/tei-appgate-ztna/index-html has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
/resources/tei-appgate-ztna/index-html has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 59 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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=20263671&Ver=2&mid=b0d4d176-9590-401b-8dd0-6301efc4b9a9&bo=1&sid=17734090d2b711f1b8e6d9d1b8f72004&vid=17736f10d2b711f1aae7717ef31432b1&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg.
5 distorted images
5 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
59 of 62 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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 (appgate.com).
Valid certificate (154 days left)
The certificate from DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 verifies for appgate.com and is valid for another 154 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://appgate.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 47 links work
All 47 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 7 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
Domain expires in 71 days
appgate.com is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.
DNSSEC is off
appgate.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 27 years old
27 yearsappgate.com was registered in Jun 1999 through Abion AB. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only pki.goog and digicert.com to issue certificates for appgate.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Content and conversion
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.
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 opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 889 words of copy
The homepage carries about 889 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Book a Demo” and “Schedule a Demo”.
12 calls to action
The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Download Now” and “Book a Demo”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 10 testimonial or review blocks and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 100/100
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: 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 include:l45s1xxvy5.powerspf.com -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “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, LinkedIn Insight and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) 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).
25 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Tailwind CSS
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- AWS
Company
- Employees
- 115
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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