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axmen.com website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
84B- #13,958 of 80,487 reviewed websitesbeats 78%
- #8,083 of 39,577 online storesbeats 74%
- #22 of 934 Squarespace websitesbeats 96%
Closest competitors among online stores
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
axmen.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 81
81/100Your 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 KiBAbout 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 msSquarespace 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 KiB8 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 KiBAbout 337 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
squarespace-cdn.com adds 0 ms
0 mssquarespace-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 KiBPolyfills 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 msYour server sent the HTML in 30 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 9.9 s
9.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 9.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.6 s
6.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.9 s
2.9 sThe 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 sYour 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 msScripts 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
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit
0.56 gBy 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 MBYour 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
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
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
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 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
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
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 yearsaxmen.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
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
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
3Opening 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.
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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
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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