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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202639 issues · 102 checks
This review found 39 issues worth fixing on aps4u.com, 16 of them high impact, across 102 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
70CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 71 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 70 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 70 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 70 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 73 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 80 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
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
4.3 s · 695 KiBAbout 695 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.3 s faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
1.8 s · 801 KiB10 images could be 801 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.5 s17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.5 s.
Mobile performance score: 39
39/100Your mobile performance score is 39. 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 (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Clarity and others), adding 1.5 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
900 ms · 132 KiBAbout 132 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.
Google CDN adds 639 ms
639 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 639 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 292 ms
292 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 292 ms of main-thread work and 335 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: 3.1 s
A phone's processor spends 3.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
11 long tasks on the main thread
11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 238 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
200 ms · 32 KiB4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (32 KiB).
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
Legacy JavaScript
23 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 23 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 32 ms
32 msYour server sent the HTML in 32 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: 25.3 s
25.3 sYour largest element takes 25.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 26.7 s
26.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 26.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 7.2 s
7.2 sThe first text or image appears after 7.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 11.5 s
11.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 11.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 692 ms
692 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 692 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.19
0.19For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.19 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 983 ms
983 msReal visitors wait 983 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
4 images without width and height
4 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) got 13% slower for real visitors
+13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 71 ms to 80 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
4 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.2 s
2.2 sReal visitors wait 2.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 28% faster for real visitors
-28%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.9 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.2 MB in 116 requests
5.2 MBYour homepage downloads 5.2 MB in 116 requests on a phone: images 1.8 MB (25), scripts 1.7 MB (46) and fonts 959 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
4 images far larger than shown
432 KiB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example bnn-default.webp at 1,920 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 432 KiB.
7 images below the first screen load straight away
7 images further down the page (679 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
6 images in older formats
6 images (573 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit
1.46 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.46 g of CO₂e: 175.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
ARIA toggle fields must have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA toggle fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (23 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 23 elements on the page fail 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.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 17 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (75 characters)
Your title is 75 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Home & Business Security Systems in Virginia & NC | Johns Brothers Security”.
Meta description is long (190 characters)
Your meta description is 190 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
Structured data has 2 problems
Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, LocalBusiness, Organization and Service) but with 2 problems, for example “Service: no offers (price) block”.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
58 internal links, 16 external
The homepage links to 58 pages on aps4u.com and 16 external pages.
4 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Residential & Commercial Security and Automation Has Never Been So Easy.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://johnsbrotherssecurity.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://johnsbrotherssecurity.com/sitemap_index.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: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, description and contact details; sameAs (social profiles) would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (766 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (3 KiB, 28 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
3 pages without a meta description
/locations, /security-system/premium-package and /security-system/smart-package 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 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
12 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
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 12 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=259123241&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=119bb694-dc4a-4e8e-af7f-2e3245577cd0&bo=1&sid=1f3c0380da2611f197ba6d94b511ae01&vid=1f3c00a0da2611f19195b9021bed4327&vids=1&msclkid=N>m_.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
No clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
No X-Content-Type-Options
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (johnsbrotherssecurity.com).
Valid certificate (52 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for aps4u.com and is valid for another 52 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://aps4u.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 38 links work
All 38 links checked from your homepage (27 internal, 11 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
johnsbrotherssecurity.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
johnsbrotherssecurity.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 25 years old
25 yearsjohnsbrotherssecurity.com was registered in Dec 2000 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Sep 2033
johnsbrotherssecurity.com is registered until Sep 2033.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
A 14-field form
Your longest form asks for 14 fields (8 required). Every extra field lowers completion.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 687 words of copy
The homepage carries about 687 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Join Our Team”, “Contact” and “[email protected]”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 9 phone links and 3 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Email authentication
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.
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.
2 checks passed
DMARC policy: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject 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 a mx include:spf-c.mailbaby.net ~all”.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Ads and Microsoft Clarity (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
10Opening 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.
21 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 21 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
- CMS
- WordPress 7.1.4
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- WordPress.com
Company
- Employees
- 17
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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