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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 19 October 202630 issues · 95 checks

This review found 30 issues worth fixing on edictsystems.com, 11 of them high impact, across 95 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

10 to fix48
  • Render-blocking requests

    5.5 s

    81 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 5.5 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.9 s · 504 KiB

    About 504 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.3 s · 217 KiB

    15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (217 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    1.1 s · 212 KiB

    4 images could be 212 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 48

    48/100

    Your mobile performance score is 48 (desktop: 59). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, sf14g.com and Hubspot and others), adding 1.1 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    840 ms · 178 KiB

    About 178 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 840 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 609 ms

    609 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 609 ms of main-thread work and 831 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    300 ms · 15 KiB

    15 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Main-thread work: 2.8 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 12 long tasks on the main thread

    12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 220 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 35 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 35 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • 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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  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix56
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 18.3 s

    18.3 s

    Your largest element takes 18.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “EDI SOLUTIONS & MANAGED SERVICES Our cloud-based Electronic…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 18.3 s

    18.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.0 s

    5.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.8 s

    8.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 398 ms

    398 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 398 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 6 images without width and height

    6 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).

Images and page weight

2 to fix75
  • Page weight: 2.4 MB in 230 requests

    2.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 230 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (77), images 482 KiB (21) and stylesheets 279 KiB (95). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    7 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example EdictHomeTP.jpg at 1,100 px wide, shown at 351 px. Resized copies would save about 7 KiB.

  • 5 images below the first screen load straight away

    5 images further down the page (253 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (88 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 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.68 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.68 g of CO₂e: 81.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9195
  • 18 text elements with low contrast

    18 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 3 links without text

    3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h4, h1 → h4 and h1 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (5 elements).

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 11 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 42 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9290
  • 5 H1 headlines

    There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Home”, “EDI SOLUTIONS & MANAGED SERVICES” and “WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU?”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 5 links with vague text

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

  • 80 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 80 pages on edictsystems.com and 4 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 141 characters

    Your meta description is 141 characters: “Cloud-based Electronic Data Interchange services for buyers and suppliers in a multitude of industries. Supplier EDI-en…”.

  • Title: 46 characters

    Your title is a healthy 46 characters: “Edict Systems - We do EDI so you don’t have to”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.edictsystems.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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.edictsystems.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

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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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (850 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 27 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.

  • 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 10078
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=5796398&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=a2e68812-c8bb-464c-b9ee-1dc47d8922c3&bo=1&sid=c58303d0cbbf11f19eb6892eda4915a2&vid=c58335d0cbbf11f1ab39a393bb331449&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918.

  • 4 small tap targets

    4 of 15 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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  • 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.

  • 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 (edictsystems.com).

  • Valid certificate (78 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for edictsystems.com and is valid for another 78 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://edictsystems.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 33 links work

    All 33 links checked from your homepage (29 internal, 4 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    edictsystems.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

    edictsystems.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 30 years old

    30 years

    edictsystems.com was registered in Apr 1996 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Apr 2028

    edictsystems.com is registered until Apr 2028.

Content and conversion

100
  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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 527 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 527 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: “CONTACT EDICT SYSTEMS”.

  • 19 calls to action

    The homepage has 19 calls to action, for example “WebEDI Pricing Tiers”, “WebEDI Signup” and “Contact Us”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks, 1 customer or partner logo and “5,000+ Active Customers”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.

Email authentication

100
  • Email authentication score: 100/100

    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 with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 a:mail.edictsystems.com a:mail2.edictsystems.com ip4:66.192.117.50 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:88…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “k2” and “mail”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 8 trackers load before any consent

    8

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 16 cookies set on arrival

    16

    Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 35 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 35 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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  • Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner

    A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2022.
  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.3.

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager

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