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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202631 issues · 93 checks

This review found 31 issues worth fixing on bfdsystems.com, 5 of them high impact, across 93 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 7.0 MB in 92 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.7 s1.5 sMay 23Oct 102.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.1 s
Jul 18, 20261.6 s
Aug 1, 20262.0 s
Aug 8, 20262.4 s
Aug 15, 20262.5 s
Aug 22, 20262.5 s
Aug 29, 20262.3 s
Sep 5, 20262.2 s
Sep 19, 20262.4 s
Oct 10, 20262.3 s

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

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Speed

8 to fix70
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    350 ms · 2.8 MB

    46 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.8 MB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.4 MB

    About 1.4 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Vimeo and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 4.0 MB and 818 ms of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 70

    70/100

    Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Google CDN adds 434 ms

    434 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 434 ms of main-thread work and 736 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    500 ms

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

  • Vimeo adds 199 ms

    199 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 199 ms of main-thread work and 2.9 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.

  • Main-thread work: 3.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 61 KiB

    About 61 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    200 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).

  • 18 long tasks on the main thread

    18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 157 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    72 KiB

    2 images could be 72 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    39 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 39 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.

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  • Server response: 55 ms

    55 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 55 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix77
  • Time to Interactive: 29.0 s

    29.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 29.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 9.5 s

    9.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 9.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 23% slower for real visitors

    +23%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    Your largest element takes 3.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Practical innovation, grounded in safety - we're redefining…”. Most of its time is element render delay (1.6 s).

  • Total Blocking Time: 373 ms

    373 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 373 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 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

2 to fix60
  • Page weight: 7.0 MB in 92 requests

    7.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 7.0 MB in 92 requests on a phone: scripts 2.4 MB (34), images 1.8 MB (18) and media 1.3 MB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    58 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example logo-yellow-web.png at 1,983 px wide, shown at 69 px. Resized copies would save about 58 KiB.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (59 KiB) is 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.

  • About 2.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.99 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.99 g of CO₂e: 238.8 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 load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

Accessibility

1 to fixGoogle 9899
  • 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 (h1 → h6, h2 → h6 and h3 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 11 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 44 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 1 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10097
  • No social preview image

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

  • 36 internal links, 12 external

    The homepage links to 36 pages on bfdsystems.com and 12 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 140 characters

    Your meta description is 140 characters: “Drone Amplified engineers specialized drone payloads for aerial ignition, avalanche control, and custom UAS integration…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Drone Systems, Amplified”.

  • Title: 62 characters

    Your title is a healthy 62 characters: “Aerial Ignition | Specialized Drone Payloads - Drone Amplified”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://droneamplified.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://droneamplified.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • 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.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (703 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    /blog has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 13 internal pages checked

    We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 13 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.

  • 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 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 5488
  • 2 third-party cookies

    2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    5 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

3 to fix75
  • 1 broken external link

    1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://drone-amplified.odoo.com/shop/ignis-ii-10269 (404).

  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • No Content-Security-Policy

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

  • HTTP/1.1 only

    The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

  • No clickjacking protection

    Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

  • 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://bfdsystems.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 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 (droneamplified.com).

  • Valid certificate (66 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for bfdsystems.com and is valid for another 66 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    droneamplified.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

    droneamplified.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 11 years old

    11 years

    droneamplified.com was registered in Jul 2015 through Launchpad.com Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jul 2032

    droneamplified.com is registered until Jul 2032.

Content and conversion

2 to fix70
  • 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.

  • 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 form on the homepage

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

  • 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 552 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 552 words of visible text.

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  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Join Our Community” and “Request A Quote”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

Email authentication

2 to fix35
  • No DMARC policy

    bfdsystems.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.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Email authentication score: 35/100

    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 include:_spf.google.com ~all”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

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

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (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.

  • 13 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 13 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
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Cloudflare

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