astound.com website review

Not measured in this review.

• Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

  Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

• Real-user LCP: 2.5 s

  2.5 s

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

• Real-user INP: 319 ms

  319 ms

  Real visitors wait 319 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

• Tap response (INP) got 24% slower for real visitors

  +24%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 258 ms to 319 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Real-user FCP: 2.3 s

  2.3 s

  Real visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

• Real-user TTFB: 1.4 s

  1.4 s

  Real visitors wait 1.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

• Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

  -9%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Page weight: 5.7 MB

  5.7 MB

  Your homepage downloads 5.7 MB on a phone, 636 KiB of it images (11%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• 3 images in older formats

  3 images (161 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.

  Elements (3)

• 5 images below the first screen load straight away

  5 images further down the page (138 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  Elements (5)

• About 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit

  1.62 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.62 g of CO₂e: 194.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• Images must have alternative text (1 element)

  Images must have alternative text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  Elements (1)

• All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

  All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  Elements (2)

• Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

  Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  Elements (1)

• 61 form fields without a label

  61 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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• Structured data has 1 problem

  Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Corporation, WebPage and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Corporation: missing name”.

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• No social preview image

  No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

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• 250 internal links, 36 external

  The homepage links to 250 pages on astound.com and 36 external pages.

• Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

  Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, logo and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

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• 1 page slow to respond

  /texas/temple/internet took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 98 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 3 broken images

  3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=139000070&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=eb025255-14ea-4b16-8f97-cb25de51dce4&bo=1&sid=41a6a140d7e811f19c44efa64a6fd681&vid=41a6eea0d7e811f1bd4c19adf1a4a51c&vids=1&msclkid=N&page.

• 6 JavaScript errors while loading

  6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Loading the image 'https://servedby.flashtalking.com/spot/1/37409;152585;17741/?spotName=Site_Visits&cachebuster=739807…”.

• Short HSTS lifetime

  HSTS is set, but max-age is 185 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

• No X-Content-Type-Options

  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

• 2 redirects before the homepage

  Opening https://astound.com goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.

• No Referrer-Policy

  No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

• No security.txt

  There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to 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.

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• Thin social proof

  Social proof on the homepage: 3 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

• A 10-field form

  Your longest form asks for 10 fields (4 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

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• 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.

• About 1,446 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 1,446 words of visible text.

• 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.

• 13 trackers load before any consent

  13

  Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight and 8 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

• 47 cookies set on arrival

  47

  Opening the homepage sets 47 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

• 61 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 61 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.