astralpipes.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 82. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 154 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (106 KiB).

About 36 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

About 18 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

1 image could be 7 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

1 third-party service load with your homepage (Google Fonts), adding 42 KiB and 0 ms of main-thread time.

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.

The layout shifts by 0.255 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.20 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Real visitors wait 1.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 146 ms to 146 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.13 g of CO₂e: 16.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

12 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 25 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

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

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

The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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

The homepage links to 202 pages on astralpipes.com and 15 external pages.

/plumbing-pipes-fittings/hytherm-ppr and /sewerage-drainage-pipes-fittings/stp-pro have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 83 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

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

astralpipes.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

The homepage carries about 649 words of visible text.

astralpipes.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.