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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 24 October 202634 issues · 102 checks

This review found 34 issues worth fixing on appzen.com, 8 of them high impact, across 102 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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 s1.7 sMay 2Oct 172.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20262.5 s
May 9, 20262.4 s
May 16, 20262.3 s
May 23, 20262.2 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20261.9 s
Jun 13, 20261.8 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.8 s
Jul 4, 20261.8 s
Jul 11, 20261.9 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.9 s
Aug 15, 20261.9 s
Aug 22, 20261.9 s
Aug 29, 20261.9 s
Sep 5, 20261.9 s
Sep 12, 20261.9 s
Sep 19, 20261.9 s
Sep 26, 20262.0 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20262.1 s
Oct 17, 20262.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
216 ms128 msMay 2Oct 17199 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 2026139 ms
May 9, 2026138 ms
May 16, 2026140 ms
May 23, 2026139 ms
May 30, 2026144 ms
Jun 6, 2026143 ms
Jun 13, 2026144 ms
Jun 20, 2026144 ms
Jun 27, 2026145 ms
Jul 4, 2026152 ms
Jul 11, 2026157 ms
Jul 18, 2026164 ms
Jul 25, 2026177 ms
Aug 1, 2026182 ms
Aug 8, 2026191 ms
Aug 15, 2026198 ms
Aug 22, 2026198 ms
Aug 29, 2026206 ms
Sep 5, 2026200 ms
Sep 12, 2026197 ms
Sep 19, 2026192 ms
Sep 26, 2026186 ms
Oct 3, 2026195 ms
Oct 10, 2026202 ms
Oct 17, 2026199 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 appzen.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. appzen.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. appzen.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. appzen.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  4. appzen.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  5. appzen.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  6. appzen.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  7. appzen.com at 4.0 s4.0 s
  8. appzen.com at 4.6 s4.6 s

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

Speed

9 to fix89
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.2 s

    23 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 89

    89/100

    Your mobile performance score is 89 (desktop: 95). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and hubspotusercontent-na1.net and others), adding 1.0 MB and 852 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 600 KiB

    100 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (600 KiB).

  • Google Tag Manager adds 505 ms

    505 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 505 ms of main-thread work and 683 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 JavaScript

    405 KiB

    About 405 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Hubspot adds 253 ms

    253 ms

    Hubspot costs a phone 253 ms of main-thread work and 352 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 1,888 HTML elements

    The page has 1,888 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 11 long tasks on the main thread

    11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 195 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    139 KiB

    6 images could be 139 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    16 KiB

    About 16 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    13 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 13 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.

  • 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: 8 ms

    8 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix33
  • 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.

  • Time to Interactive: 12.4 s

    12.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 12.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user INP: 208 ms

    208 ms

    Real visitors wait 208 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.18

    0.18

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.18 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 45% slower for real visitors

    +45%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 139 ms to 199 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user FCP: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 324 ms

    324 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 324 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 19 images without width and height

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

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    Real visitors wait 2.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 14% faster for real visitors

    -14%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Your largest element renders in 2.4 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Agents that don't just detect. They act.”.

  • Speed Index: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.2 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.5 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.049

    0.049

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.049, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix75
  • Page weight: 3.9 MB in 135 requests

    3.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.9 MB in 135 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (66), media 1.2 MB (1) and scripts 1.1 MB (23). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    21 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Rectangle 11.png at 390 px wide, shown at 100 px. Resized copies would save about 21 KiB.

  • About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.11 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.11 g of CO₂e: 133.0 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.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8490
  • 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.

  • 6 text elements with low contrast

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

  • ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (4 elements)

    ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • ARIA toggle fields must have an accessible name (2 elements)

    ARIA toggle fields must have an accessible name: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (2 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 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.

  • 30 links without text

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

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h6 and h3 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 69 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 54 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 62 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 54 passed and 8 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 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, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 211 internal links, 15 external

    The homepage links to 211 pages on appzen.com and 15 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 150 characters

    Your meta description is 150 characters: “AppZen builds AI Agents for accounts payable and expense management. Purpose-built for finance, trained on $50B+ in ent…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Agentic AI for AP and Expense Management”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Agentic AI for Accounts Payable and Expense Management | AppZen”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.appzen.com/.

  • 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.appzen.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

2 to fix70
  • 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.

  • Parts of the site are closed to 1 AI crawler

    Your robots.txt lets Perplexity (PerplexityBot) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.

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  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,437 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (4 KiB, 14 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without an H1

    /prebuilt-apps-library has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 78 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 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 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”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    10 of 12 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://support.appzen.com/.

  • 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”; 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 (appzen.com).

  • Valid certificate (61 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for appzen.com and is valid for another 61 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://appzen.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 50 links work

    All 50 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 10 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    appzen.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 20 years old

    20 years

    appzen.com was registered in Sep 2006 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only letsencrypt.org, pki.goog, sectigo.com and amazon.com to issue certificates for appzen.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • Registered until Sep 2027

    appzen.com is registered until Sep 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix90
  • 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 form on the homepage

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

  • 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 1,004 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,004 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: “Register now” and “Get a Demo”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Register now”, “Download Report” and “Get a Demo”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks, 7 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.

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:1zjq4kj5w.spf.checkpoint-spf.com ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “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, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Ketch) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 17 cookies set on arrival

    17

    Opening the homepage sets 17 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.

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  • Consent tool: Ketch

    A consent management tool (Ketch) loads with the page.

Upkeep, stack and company

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

Stack

CMS
HubSpot
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager

Hiring

Hiring
17 open roles
Teams
Direct Sales (6), Product Management (2), Core Engineering (1), Engineering (1)
Job board
lever

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