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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.

  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
3.8 s3.0 sMay 9Oct 243.7 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20263.1 s
May 16, 20263.1 s
May 23, 20263.2 s
May 30, 20263.3 s
Jun 6, 20263.4 s
Jun 13, 20263.5 s
Jun 20, 20263.6 s
Jun 27, 20263.6 s
Jul 4, 20263.6 s
Jul 11, 20263.6 s
Jul 18, 20263.6 s
Jul 25, 20263.6 s
Aug 1, 20263.6 s
Aug 8, 20263.6 s
Aug 15, 20263.6 s
Aug 22, 20263.5 s
Aug 29, 20263.5 s
Sep 5, 20263.5 s
Sep 12, 20263.4 s
Sep 19, 20263.5 s
Sep 26, 20263.5 s
Oct 3, 20263.5 s
Oct 10, 20263.6 s
Oct 17, 20263.7 s
Oct 24, 20263.7 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
421 ms304 msMay 9Oct 24397 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026317 ms
May 16, 2026328 ms
May 23, 2026341 ms
May 30, 2026348 ms
Jun 6, 2026355 ms
Jun 13, 2026360 ms
Jun 20, 2026362 ms
Jun 27, 2026364 ms
Jul 4, 2026369 ms
Jul 11, 2026363 ms
Jul 18, 2026356 ms
Jul 25, 2026363 ms
Aug 1, 2026366 ms
Aug 8, 2026382 ms
Aug 15, 2026402 ms
Aug 22, 2026390 ms
Aug 29, 2026392 ms
Sep 5, 2026391 ms
Sep 12, 2026391 ms
Sep 19, 2026396 ms
Sep 26, 2026397 ms
Oct 3, 2026400 ms
Oct 10, 2026403 ms
Oct 17, 2026407 ms
Oct 24, 2026397 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 appgate.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. appgate.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. appgate.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  3. appgate.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  4. appgate.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  5. appgate.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  6. appgate.com at 3.5 s3.5 s
  7. appgate.com at 4.1 s4.1 s
  8. appgate.com at 4.7 s4.7 s

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

Speed

9 to fix28
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.6 s · 1,002 KiB

    About 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

    28/100

    Your 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 ms

    Intercom 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 ms

    Google 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 KiB

    17 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 ms

    pathfactory.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 KiB

    About 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 KiB

    Polyfills 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 KiB

    1 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.

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  • Server response: 59 ms

    59 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 59 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

12 to fix0
  • 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 s

    Your 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 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.1 s

    10.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.7 s

    4.7 s

    The 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 s

    Scripts 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 s

    Real visitors wait 2.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.16

    0.16

    For 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 s

    Real 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 s

    Real visitors wait 1.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.161

    0.161

    The 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

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.3 MB in 75 requests

    2.3 MB

    Your 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 g

    By 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.

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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

2 to fixGoogle 10098
  • 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.

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  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 9298
  • 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.

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  • 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

100
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  • 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 to fix95
  • 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.

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  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9282
  • 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.

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  • 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

100
  • 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 (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

1 to fix
  • 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.

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  • Domain is 27 years old

    27 years

    appgate.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

2 to fix88
  • 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.

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  • 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

100
  • 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.

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  • 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

    6

    Before 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

    16

    Opening 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.

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  • 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

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