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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202630 issues · 91 checks

This review found 30 issues worth fixing on axmen.com, 6 of them high impact, across 91 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

Full-page screenshot of axmen.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. axmen.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. axmen.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. axmen.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. axmen.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. axmen.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. axmen.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. axmen.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. axmen.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

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

Speed

9 to fix81
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.1 s

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 81

    81/100

    Your mobile performance score is 81. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, sqspcdn.com and squarespace-cdn.com), adding 1.9 MB and 746 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    750 ms · 132 KiB

    About 132 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Squarespace adds 724 ms

    724 ms

    Squarespace costs a phone 724 ms of main-thread work and 926 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    465 KiB

    8 images could be 465 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 342 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    337 KiB

    About 337 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • squarespace-cdn.com adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    squarespace-cdn.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 990 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    94 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 94 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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  • Main-thread work: 1.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 636 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 30 ms

    30 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 30 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix90
  • Time to Interactive: 9.9 s

    9.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.6 s

    6.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.9 s

    2.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.9 s

    2.9 s

    Your largest element takes 2.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “What is the Axmen? WE ARE MORE THAN JUST A STORE We are the…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.3 s).

  • Total Blocking Time: 209 ms

    209 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 209 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.56 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.56 g of CO₂e: 67.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 2.0 MB in 65 requests

    2.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.0 MB in 65 requests on a phone: scripts 845 KiB (35), images 765 KiB (14) and fonts 225 KiB (6). That is a lean page.

  • 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.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

1 to fixGoogle 9598
  • Links must have discernible text (8 elements)

    Links must have discernible text: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 15 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 41 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 9277
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Title is short (5 characters)

    Your title is only 5 characters: “Axmen”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: image is not an absolute URL ("//images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6966c1e477ecaf193bd…”.

  • 3 links with vague text

    3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 30 internal links, 10 external

    The homepage links to 30 pages on axmen.com and 10 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 135 characters

    Your meta description is 135 characters: “Axmen in Missoula, MT — hot tubs, wood & gas stoves, pellet stoves, generators. Family-owned since 1973. Expert install…”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • 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.axmen.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (351 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /home-fire-defense and /showroom have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 pages without an H1

    /heating and /generators have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 3 pages with very little text

    /heating, /generators and /contact have 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.

  • 7 internal pages checked

    We fetched 7 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 7 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.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10092
  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/versioned-site-css/6966c1e477ecaf193bd8a94f/14/5c5a…”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 180 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (axmen.com).

  • Valid certificate (57 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for axmen.com and is valid for another 57 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://axmen.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 18 links work

    All 18 links checked from your homepage (9 internal, 9 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    axmen.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

    axmen.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 27 years old

    27 years

    axmen.com was registered in Feb 1999 through Bluehost Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Feb 2027

    axmen.com is registered until Feb 2027.

Content and conversion

4 to fix58
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 315 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 315 words of visible text.

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  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Learn more” and “Click Here to Apply”.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Email authentication

1 to fix70
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be axmen.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • Email authentication score: 70/100

    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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  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:50.87.222.126 +ip4:69.89.31.149 +ip4:104.145.231.163 +ip4:23.227.173.70 include:_spf.google.com mx:t…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “default”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 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.

  • 5 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
Squarespace
Hosting
Squarespace

Company

Headquarters
Missoula

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