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boundaryla.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202613 issues · 82 checks
This review found 13 issues worth fixing on boundaryla.com, 3 of them high impact, across 82 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
85BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.9 s
1.3 s
1.7 s
2.2 s
2.6 s
3.1 s
3.5 s
boundaryla.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.1 s · 229 KiBAbout 229 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 72
72/100Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
350 ms1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 350 ms.
Google Tag Manager adds 244 ms
244 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 244 ms of main-thread work and 299 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.
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics), adding 300 KiB and 244 ms of main-thread time.
4 long tasks on the main thread
4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 113 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
15 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 15 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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.4 s
A phone's processor spends 1.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 533 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 8 ms
8 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.0 s
6.0 sYour largest element takes 6.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “that smashes on fools”. Most of its time is element render delay (3.5 s).
Time to Interactive: 6.0 s
6.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 6.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 4.8 s
4.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
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.
3 checks passed
Total Blocking Time: 186 ms
186 msScripts block the page for only 186 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.5 s
1.5 sThe first text or image appears after 1.5 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit
0.26 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.26 g of CO₂e: 31.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 935 KiB in 42 requests
935 KiBYour homepage downloads 935 KiB in 42 requests on a phone: scripts 618 KiB (26), fonts 162 KiB (4) and images 104 KiB (7). 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
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 27 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 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 0 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
66 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 66 pages on boundaryla.com and 8 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 140 characters
Your meta description is 140 characters: “Almost Always (formerly Boundary) is a creative agency in Los Angeles, working across brand, product, and development f…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Almost Always — a creative agency in Los Angeles”.
Title: 44 characters
Your title is a healthy 44 characters: “Creative Design Agency in LA | Almost Always”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.almostalways.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
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.almostalways.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (558 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (10 KiB, 39 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
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
2 small tap targets
2 of 6 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
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.
8 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (almostalways.com).
Valid certificate (47 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for boundaryla.com and is valid for another 47 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.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://boundaryla.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 33 links work
All 33 links checked from your homepage (26 internal, 7 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
almostalways.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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 25 years old
25 yearsalmostalways.com was registered in Aug 2001 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only sectigo.com, globalsign.com, letsencrypt.org and pki.goog to issue certificates for almostalways.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Aug 2027
almostalways.com is registered until Aug 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.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
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 opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 254 words of copy
The homepage carries about 254 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
5 calls to action
The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Talk to a co-founder”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 85/100
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: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google” and “k2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before 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.
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 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.
3 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Next.js
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Vercel
Company
- Headquarters
- El Segundo
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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