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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202627 issues · 96 checks

This review found 27 issues worth fixing on ciinc.com, 6 of them high impact, across 96 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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

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Speed

6 to fix67
  • Improve image delivery

    1.4 s · 449 KiB

    12 images could be 449 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.8 s

    22 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 67

    67/100

    Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    750 ms · 150 KiB

    About 150 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    500 ms · 62 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (62 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 62 KiB

    About 62 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.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, juvoleads.com and cleantalk.org and others), adding 414 KiB and 139 ms of main-thread time.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 8 KiB

    8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 76 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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: 0.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 343 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 34 ms

    34 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 34 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.5 s

    9.5 s

    Your largest element takes 9.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like c…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.5 s

    9.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.2 s

    5.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 3 images without width and height

    3 images 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).

  • Total Blocking Time: 26 ms

    26 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 26 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix81
  • Page weight: 2.4 MB in 91 requests

    2.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 91 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (24), scripts 428 KiB (30) and fonts 394 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    cii-hero-team-new.png is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (370 KiB) are 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 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.67 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.67 g of CO₂e: 80.3 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 are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9294
  • 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.

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (11 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 11 elements on the page fail 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 → h6, h2 → h6 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 38 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 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 4 failed. 6 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 9298
  • 3 links with vague text

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

  • 52 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 52 pages on ciinc.com and 7 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 141 characters

    Your meta description is 141 characters: “Raleigh's longest-running MSP since 1981. Cii Technology provides managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services across …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “IT Support in Raleigh”.

  • Title: 53 characters

    Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “IT Services Raleigh, NC | Cii Technology - Since 1981”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://cii.cloud/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, ImageObject, LocalBusiness and Organization.

  • 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://cii.cloud/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: 5 of 6 facts

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,785 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 1 page without a meta description

    /azure-virtual-desktop has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /managed-it-services-raleigh-nc, whose canonical is /managed-it-services. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 5 pages slow to respond

    /cyber-liability-insurance-services-raleigh, /backup-disaster-recovery-raleigh, /cloud-solutions, /managed-cloud-services-raleigh and /aec took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 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.

  • 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 to fixGoogle 9287
  • 10 small tap targets

    10 of 19 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • 2 low-resolution images

    2 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

3 to fix79
  • http:// does not redirect

    http://ciinc.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.

  • 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://ciinc.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 (cii.cloud).

  • Valid certificate (77 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR1 verifies for ciinc.com and is valid for another 77 days.

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 35 links work

    All 35 links checked from your homepage (28 internal, 7 external) answered without errors; 3 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    cii.cloud 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

    cii.cloud'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 7 years old

    7 years

    cii.cloud was registered in Aug 2019 through GoDaddy. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Aug 2027

    cii.cloud is registered until Aug 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 1,263 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,263 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: “SCHEDULE YOUR APPOINTMENT”.

  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Schedule Your Appointment”, “GET IN TOUCH” and “LEARN MORE”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (7 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block, 1 customer or partner logo, a star rating and 4 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 8 phone links and 1 email link.

  • Opening hours shown

    Your opening hours are on the homepage.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • LocalBusiness structured data

    Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • 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: 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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  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine 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 ip4:173.46.152.128/25 ip4:199.244.76.0/24 include:_spf.smtp.com a:dispatch-us.ppe-hosted.com include:spf.protec…”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

  • 13 cookies set on arrival

    13

    Opening the homepage sets 13 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.

  • 8 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 8 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 7.1.4
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
AWS

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