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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202638 issues · 98 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on blu.com, 14 of them high impact, across 98 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
1.5 s517 msMay 16Oct 311.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 2026643 ms
May 23, 2026638 ms
May 30, 2026636 ms
Jun 6, 2026682 ms
Jun 13, 2026712 ms
Jun 20, 2026743 ms
Jun 27, 2026827 ms
Jul 4, 2026826 ms
Jul 11, 2026827 ms
Jul 18, 2026811 ms
Jul 25, 2026788 ms
Aug 1, 2026779 ms
Aug 8, 2026977 ms
Aug 15, 20261.2 s
Aug 22, 20261.3 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.4 s
Sep 12, 20261.4 s
Sep 19, 20261.4 s
Sep 26, 20261.4 s
Oct 3, 20261.3 s
Oct 10, 20261.3 s
Oct 17, 20261.4 s
Oct 24, 20261.4 s
Oct 31, 20261.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
113 ms33 msMay 16Oct 3154 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026101 ms
May 23, 2026104 ms
May 30, 2026104 ms
Jun 6, 2026104 ms
Jun 13, 2026104 ms
Jun 20, 202696 ms
Jun 27, 202665 ms
Jul 4, 202659 ms
Jul 11, 202658 ms
Jul 18, 202652 ms
Jul 25, 202646 ms
Aug 1, 202652 ms
Aug 8, 202646 ms
Aug 15, 202642 ms
Aug 22, 202650 ms
Aug 29, 202649 ms
Sep 5, 202652 ms
Sep 12, 202653 ms
Sep 19, 202653 ms
Sep 26, 202653 ms
Oct 3, 202657 ms
Oct 10, 202662 ms
Oct 17, 202658 ms
Oct 24, 202656 ms
Oct 31, 202654 ms

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

9 to fix50
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    4.2 s · 791 KiB

    About 791 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.3 s · 2.1 MB

    14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.1 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    3.4 s

    9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.4 s.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Optanon and others), adding 1.7 MB and 927 ms of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 50

    50/100

    Your mobile performance score is 50. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    440 ms · 67 KiB

    About 67 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 440 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google CDN adds 391 ms

    391 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 391 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.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 361 ms

    361 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 361 ms of main-thread work and 641 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.

  • Font display

    350 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 350 ms).

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 174 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify JavaScript

    14 KiB

    14 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    9 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 9 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.

  • Minify CSS

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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  • Main-thread work: 2.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • First Contentful Paint: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 8.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Your largest element takes 8.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “As part of ITG Brands’ ongoing evolution of its next-genera…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 20.6 s

    20.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 20.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 114% slower for real visitors

    +114%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.6 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 901 ms

    901 ms

    Real visitors wait 901 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 334 ms

    334 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 334 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.

6 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 54 ms

    54 ms

    Real visitors wait 54 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: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 46% faster for real visitors

    -46%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 101 ms to 54 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 4.1 MB in 47 requests

    4.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.1 MB in 47 requests on a phone: fonts 1.9 MB (4), scripts 1.5 MB (16) and other files 554 KiB (16). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (47 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 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.17 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.17 g of CO₂e: 140.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9295
  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 1 form field without a label

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 1 image in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 27 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 28 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 27 passed and 1 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

7 to fixGoogle 9268
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • Title is short (18 characters)

    Your title is only 18 characters: “blu.com - blu Home”. 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.

  • No canonical URL

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

  • 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.

  • Only 2 internal links

    The homepage links to only 2 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

3 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Thank you for your support”.

  • 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://us.blu.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • 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.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 1 page without a meta description

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

  • 1 page without an H1

    /patents has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 internal page checked

    We fetched 1 page linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 1 page 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 1 page that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 96100
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

2 to fix86
  • 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.

  • 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://blu.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.

5 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (us.blu.com).

  • Valid certificate (76 days left)

    The certificate from DigiCert Inc · GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 verifies for blu.com and is valid for another 76 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 2 links work

    All 2 links checked from your homepage (2 internal, 0 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    blu.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

    blu.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 30 years old

    30 years

    blu.com was registered in Dec 1995 through Key-Systems GmbH. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Dec 2027

    blu.com is registered until Dec 2027.

Content and conversion

5 to fix33
  • 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.

  • No calls to action

    We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • No analytics detected

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

  • Only about 139 words

    The homepage has only about 139 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.

Email authentication

95
  • Email authentication score: 95/100

    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.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:151.106.217.39 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:spf1.imptob.com includ…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 14 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: OneTrust

    A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Hosting
Azure

Company

Headquarters
Charlotte

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