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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202636 issues · 103 checks

This review found 36 issues worth fixing on ballseed.com, 12 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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 ballseed.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

11 to fix43
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    5.8 s · 1.0 MB

    15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.0 MB).

  • Minify JavaScript

    2.6 s · 417 KiB

    417 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.2 s · 402 KiB

    About 402 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.0 s

    8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.0 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 43

    43/100

    Your mobile performance score is 43 (desktop: 68). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and bc0a.com and others), adding 2.3 MB and 791 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 61 KiB

    About 61 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 304 ms

    304 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 304 ms of main-thread work and 291 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 268 ms

    268 ms

    Facebook costs a phone 268 ms of main-thread work and 216 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.

  • ctfassets.net adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    ctfassets.net costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 1.4 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.

  • bc0a.com adds 87 ms

    87 ms

    bc0a.com costs a phone 87 ms of main-thread work and 294 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.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 239 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 17 KiB

    17 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Improve image delivery

    83 KiB

    6 images could be 83 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    12 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 68 but mobile only 43. 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.8 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 884 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 36 ms

    36 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 36 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

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  • Largest Contentful Paint: 18.6 s

    18.6 s

    Your largest element takes 18.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Ball Seed is Your Partner”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 7.2 s

    7.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 7.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 18.8 s

    18.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 9.7 s

    9.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 9.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 523 ms

    523 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 523 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 10 images without width and height

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

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  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 91 ms

    91 ms

    Real visitors wait 91 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 605 ms

    605 ms

    Real visitors wait 605 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.009

    0.009

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.009, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 3.2 MB in 61 requests

    3.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.2 MB in 61 requests on a phone: images 1.7 MB (26), scripts 1.3 MB (10) and stylesheets 106 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (118 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.92 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.92 g of CO₂e: 110.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • 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

6 to fixGoogle 8792
  • 4 text elements with low contrast

    4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Links must have discernible text (1 element)

    Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 8 images without alt text

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

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).

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  • 48 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 6 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

8 to fixGoogle 8267
  • Title is short (16 characters)

    Your title is only 16 characters: “Home | Ball Seed”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 33 links with vague text

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

  • 5 H1 headlines

    There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Ball Seed is Your Partner”, “Here to Support You Every Step of the Way” and “Access Product Info to Grow Successfully this Sea…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Meta description is long (176 characters)

    Your meta description is 176 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No robots.txt

    There is no robots.txt at ballseed.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 88 internal links, 62 external

    The homepage links to 88 pages on ballseed.com and 62 external pages.

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  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://ballseed.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

    There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,539 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 50 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 7 small tap targets

    7 of 30 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 30 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (95 days left)

    The certificate from Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 verifies for ballseed.com and is valid for another 95 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.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 60 links work

    All 60 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 20 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    ballseed.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

    ballseed.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 30 years old

    30 years

    ballseed.com was registered in Apr 1996 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Apr 2027

    ballseed.com is registered until Apr 2027.

Content and conversion

100
  • 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 790 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 790 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn More”.

  • 51 calls to action

    The homepage has 51 calls to action, for example “Catalog Order Form”, “Learn More” and “Order”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 customer or partner logos and 2 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 0 email links.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be ballseed.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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 with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 ip4:20.25.220.160 ip4:20.25.218.151 ip4:20.118.98.28 ip4:20.118.98.91 ip4:20.225.68.103 ip4:20.114.78.231 ip4:86…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta 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.

  • 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.

  • 17 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 17 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

CMS
Webflow
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager

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