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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 24 October 202645 issues · 108 checks
This review found 45 issues worth fixing on aputure.com, 18 of them high impact, across 108 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
70C- #69,429 of 83,607 reviewed websitesbeats 14%
- #37,646 of 42,005 online storesbeats 8%
- #34,185 of 37,361 Shopify storesbeats 7%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 241 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 230 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 225 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 224 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 220 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 209 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 205 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 189 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 173 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 221 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 221 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 220 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 212 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 226 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 221 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 225 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
1.1 s
2.1 s
3.2 s
4.2 s
5.3 s
6.3 s
7.4 s
8.5 s
aputure.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Improve image delivery
3.1 s · 1.6 MB16 images could be 1.6 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
2.5 s28 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.5 s.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.8 s · 566 KiBAbout 566 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.
Shopify adds 1.6 s
1.6 sShopify costs a phone 1.6 s of main-thread work and 819 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Mobile performance score: 35
35/100Your mobile performance score is 35 (desktop: 63). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 6.5 s
A phone's processor spends 6.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Google Tag Manager and TikTok and others), adding 3.7 MB and 2.9 s of main-thread time.
Avoid multiple page redirects
766 msThe page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 766 ms. Link and advertise the final URL directly.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 489 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Google Tag Manager adds 450 ms
450 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 450 ms of main-thread work and 351 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.
TikTok adds 354 ms
354 msTikTok costs a phone 354 ms of main-thread work and 156 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.
Facebook adds 292 ms
292 msFacebook costs a phone 292 ms of main-thread work and 228 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
250 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (250 KiB).
sanity.io adds 0 ms
0 mssanity.io costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 2.0 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.
Document request latency
150 msThe HTML itself could arrive about 150 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Legacy JavaScript
39 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 39 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 63 but mobile only 35. 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: 17 ms
17 msYour server sent the HTML in 17 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: 13.5 s
13.5 sYour largest element takes 13.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “STORM CS32”.
Time to Interactive: 19.1 s
19.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 19.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 4.5 s
4.5 sThe first text or image appears after 4.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.4 s
8.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.2 s
1.2 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.2 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user LCP: 2.9 s
2.9 sReal visitors wait 2.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 345 ms
345 msReal visitors wait 345 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user FCP: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors wait 1.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
3 images without width and height
3 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 241 ms to 225 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
2 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.2 MB in 228 requests
4.2 MBYour homepage downloads 4.2 MB in 228 requests on a phone: images 2.0 MB (78), scripts 1.5 MB (85) and other files 427 KiB (33). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
cfe9027ffee324cddf945693523e856001815da9-3840x2160.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.19 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.19 g of CO₂e: 143.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
9 buttons without a name
9 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
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.
ARIA commands must have an accessible name (2 elements)
ARIA commands must have an accessible name: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
9 images without alt text
9 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
6 links without text
6 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (2 elements)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
1 checks passed
46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
13 H1 headlines
There are 13 <h1> headlines (“STORM CS32 High Output, Full Spectrum, Small Size”, “Sidus Link Pro” and “NOVA 9° 2x1 Build Your Sunbeam”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at aputure.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
5 links with vague text
5 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.
67 internal links, 18 external
The homepage links to 67 pages on aputure.com and 18 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 94 characters
Your meta description is 94 characters: “Aputure is a global leader in cutting-edge LED cinema lighting and software control solutions.”.
Title: 50 characters
Your title is a healthy 50 characters: “Aputure: LED Lighting for Film and Video | Aputure”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://aputure.com/.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://aputure.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
1 checks passed
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (765 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
/case-studies has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page with very little text
/pages/dealers 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 55 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.
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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
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”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
55 of 60 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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.
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 (aputure.com).
Valid certificate (30 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for aputure.com and is valid for another 30 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://aputure.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 58 links work
All 58 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 18 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
aputure.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
aputure.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 19 years old
19 yearsaputure.com was registered in Apr 2007 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Apr 2029
aputure.com is registered until Apr 2029.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 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 1,150 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,150 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “LEARN MORE”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Learn More”, “Shop New Arrivals” and “Shop all lights”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Email authentication
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.
3 checks passed
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.qiye.aliyun.com include:24055135.spf04.hubspotemail.net include:mail.zendesk.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “s1”, “s2” and “default”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel (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.
13 cookies set on arrival
13Opening the homepage sets 13 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.
19 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 19 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
- Framework
- React
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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