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custofab.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202618 issues · 94 checks
This review found 18 issues worth fixing on custofab.com, 5 of them high impact, across 94 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 16.3 MB in 200 requests. 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 Wix websites
Compare side by sideShow as table
| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.3 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
Speed
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Wix, Usercentrics CMP and Sentry), adding 15.5 MB and 588 ms of main-thread time.
Wix adds 488 ms
488 msWix costs a phone 488 ms of main-thread work and 15.2 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.
Mobile performance score: 72
72/100Your mobile performance score is 72 (desktop: 95). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
450 ms · 279 KiBAbout 279 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Duplicated JavaScript
150 ms · 31 KiB31 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
167 KiBAbout 167 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 69 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
52 KiB3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (52 KiB).
Minify JavaScript
50 KiB50 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Improve image delivery
46 KiB4 images could be 46 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Legacy JavaScript
40 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 40 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify CSS
11 KiB11 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 16 ms
16 msYour server sent the HTML in 16 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.5 s
6.5 sYour largest element takes 6.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 8.9 s
8.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 8.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
2.7 sThe first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 3.6 s
3.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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: 0.006
0.006The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.006, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 10 ms
10 msScripts block the page for only 10 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 16.3 MB in 200 requests
16.3 MBYour homepage downloads 16.3 MB in 200 requests on a phone: media 14.1 MB (1), scripts 1.2 MB (96) and other files 608 KiB (75). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 4.6 g of CO₂ per visit
4.62 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.62 g of CO₂e: 555.0 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 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
6 tap targets too small
6 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
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 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
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Every image has alt text
All 15 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
176 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 176 pages on custofab.com and 4 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 155 characters
Your meta description is 155 characters: “Custom air cooled and shell and tube heat exchangers, ASME pressure vessels, and 24/7 field services for refining, LNG,…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Engineered Heat Transfer Solutions for Critical Industrial and Digital Infrastructure”.
Title: 48 characters
Your title is a healthy 48 characters: “Engineering Heat Transfer Solutions | Cust-O-Fab”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.custofab.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: LocalBusiness, Organization 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.custofab.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: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (883 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (3 KiB, 3 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 pages without an H1
/markets, /products, /services, /innovation, /about-us and /careers and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 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.
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.
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
9 small tap targets
9 of 31 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 “globalThis.defineStrictProperty is not a function”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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 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 (custofab.com).
Valid certificate (65 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR1 verifies for custofab.com and is valid for another 65 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://custofab.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 26 links work
All 26 links checked from your homepage (22 internal, 4 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
custofab.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
custofab.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 29 years old
29 yearscustofab.com was registered in Apr 1997 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Apr 2028
custofab.com is registered until Apr 2028.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 336 words of copy
The homepage carries about 336 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: “Request a Quote”.
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Request a Quote”.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.
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
Email authentication score: 90/100
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 with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.edgepilot.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.
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
5 cookies set on arrival
5Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
9 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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Consent tool: Usercentrics
A consent management tool (Usercentrics) loads with the page.
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- CMS
- Wix.com Website Builder
- Framework
- React
- Hosting
- Wix
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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