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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202637 issues · 106 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on appioninc.com, 13 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.

  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
2.0 s1.5 sMay 16Oct 311.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.6 s
May 23, 20261.6 s
May 30, 20261.6 s
Jun 6, 20261.6 s
Jun 13, 20261.6 s
Jun 20, 20261.6 s
Jun 27, 20261.6 s
Jul 4, 20261.6 s
Jul 11, 20261.7 s
Jul 18, 20261.6 s
Jul 25, 20261.7 s
Aug 1, 20261.8 s
Aug 8, 20261.8 s
Aug 15, 20261.8 s
Aug 22, 20261.8 s
Aug 29, 20261.7 s
Sep 5, 20261.7 s
Sep 12, 20261.7 s
Sep 19, 20261.8 s
Sep 26, 20261.9 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20261.9 s
Oct 24, 20261.8 s
Oct 31, 20261.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
90 ms70 msMay 16Oct 3179 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202678 ms
May 23, 202672 ms
May 30, 202678 ms
Jun 6, 202679 ms
Jun 13, 202679 ms
Jun 20, 202679 ms
Jun 27, 202681 ms
Jul 4, 202679 ms
Jul 11, 202679 ms
Jul 18, 202678 ms
Jul 25, 202678 ms
Aug 1, 202678 ms
Aug 8, 202679 ms
Aug 15, 202682 ms
Aug 22, 202685 ms
Aug 29, 202687 ms
Sep 5, 202688 ms
Sep 12, 202688 ms
Sep 19, 202687 ms
Sep 26, 202683 ms
Oct 3, 202685 ms
Oct 10, 202685 ms
Oct 17, 202680 ms
Oct 24, 202680 ms
Oct 31, 202679 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 appioninc.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. appioninc.com at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. appioninc.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  3. appioninc.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  4. appioninc.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  5. appioninc.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  6. appioninc.com at 4.0 s4.0 s
  7. appioninc.com at 4.7 s4.7 s
  8. appioninc.com at 5.3 s5.3 s

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

Speed

9 to fix42
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.6 s · 503 KiB

    About 503 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.1 s

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 42

    42/100

    Your mobile performance score is 42. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Improve image delivery

    14.9 MB

    17 images could be 14.9 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (commoninja.com, Bigcommerce and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 22.3 MB and 780 ms of main-thread time.

  • commoninja.com adds 478 ms

    478 ms

    commoninja.com costs a phone 478 ms of main-thread work and 15.8 MB 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

    750 ms · 165 KiB

    11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (165 KiB).

  • Bigcommerce adds 182 ms

    182 ms

    Bigcommerce costs a phone 182 ms of main-thread work and 6.1 MB 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

    320 ms · 52 KiB

    About 52 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 320 ms faster on a phone.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 160 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    15 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 15 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    5 KiB

    5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 857 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 22.9 s

    22.9 s

    Your largest element takes 22.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “EEV Universal Magnet Kit Designed to Fit All Common Industr…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 25.1 s

    25.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 25.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.504

    0.504

    The layout shifts by 0.504 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Speed Index: 8.3 s

    8.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 215 ms

    215 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 215 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 78 ms to 79 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 13% slower for real visitors

    +13%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.8 s 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: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 103 ms

    103 ms

    Real visitors wait 103 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: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 449 ms

    449 ms

    Real visitors wait 449 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 22.4 MB in 122 requests

    22.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 22.4 MB in 122 requests on a phone: images 20.9 MB (40), scripts 1.3 MB (46) and fonts 84 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 6.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    6.35 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 6.35 g of CO₂e: 762.1 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

7 to fixGoogle 7890
  • 9 tap targets too small

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

  • Hidden but focusable

    1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • 3 buttons without a name

    3 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (51 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 51 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

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

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 5 links without text

    5 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Headings skip levels

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

  • SVG elements with an img role do not have an accessible text alternative

    SVG elements with an img role do not have an accessible text alternative (2 elements).

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 13 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 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 10077
  • Title is short (12 characters)

    Your title is only 12 characters: “Appion Tools”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://appiontools.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 91 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 91 pages on appioninc.com and 13 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 137 characters

    Your meta description is 137 characters: “Creating great products for HVAC/R technicians while continuously striving to improve the AC/R industry through innovat…”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://appiontools.com/.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

  • 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.

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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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (472 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix78
  • 1 page points its canonical at the homepage

    /compare declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

  • 2 pages share a title

    / and /compare all use the title “Appion Tools”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 14 pages without a meta description

    /hvac-r-tools, /products/refrigerant-recovery, /products/refrigerant-recovery/recovery-machines, /products/refrigerant-recovery/valve-core-removal-tools, /products/refrigerant-recovery/core-control-tools and /products/refrigerant-recovery/recovery-hoses-and-hose-kits and 8 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 58 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.

  • 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
  • 10 small tap targets

    10 of 49 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was 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

1 to fix93
  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 0 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example http://www.geotrust.com/ssl/.

  • 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.

  • 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 (appiontools.com).

  • Valid certificate (59 days left)

    The certificate from DigiCert Inc · GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 verifies for appioninc.com and is valid for another 59 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

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

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://appioninc.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.

  • All 45 links work

    All 45 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 5 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    appiontools.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

    appiontools.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 15 years old

    15 years

    appiontools.com was registered in Apr 2011 through DomainPeople, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Apr 2027

    appiontools.com is registered until Apr 2027.

Content and conversion

2 to fix79
  • No social proof

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

  • 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 opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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 489 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 489 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: “Learn More”.

  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Register”, “Where To Buy” and “Contact”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

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.

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  • 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:amazonses.com include:_spf.bigcommerce.com ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google” and “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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.

  • 10 cookies set on arrival

    10

    Opening the homepage sets 10 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.

  • 15 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

E-commerce
BigCommerce
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Ntirety, Inc.

Hiring

Hiring
2 open roles
Job board
careers page

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