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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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
76CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 643 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 638 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 636 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 682 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 712 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 743 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 827 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 826 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 827 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 811 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 788 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 779 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 977 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 101 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 65 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 59 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 58 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 52 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 46 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 52 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 46 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 42 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 50 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 49 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 52 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 53 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 53 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 53 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 57 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 58 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 56 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 54 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
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
4.2 s · 791 KiBAbout 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 MB14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.1 MB).
Render-blocking requests
3.4 s9 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
50/100Your mobile performance score is 50. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
440 ms · 67 KiBAbout 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 msGoogle 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 msGoogle 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 msWeb 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 KiB14 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Legacy JavaScript
9 KiBPolyfills 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 KiB3 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 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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 sThe 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 sYour 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 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 20.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.0 s
8.0 sVisually, 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 msReal visitors wait 901 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 334 ms
334 msScripts 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 sReal 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 msReal visitors wait 54 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal 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
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.1 MB in 47 requests
4.1 MBYour 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 gBy 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.
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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 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
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
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
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
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
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 yearsblu.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
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
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.
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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
4Before 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
6Opening 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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