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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202636 issues · 103 checks

This review found 36 issues worth fixing on engine.com, 13 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.3 s1.3 sMay 9Oct 242.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.7 s
May 16, 20262.3 s
May 23, 20262.0 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.9 s
Jun 13, 20262.0 s
Jun 20, 20262.1 s
Jun 27, 20262.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20262.0 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.9 s
Aug 15, 20261.9 s
Aug 22, 20261.6 s
Aug 29, 20261.5 s
Sep 5, 20261.6 s
Sep 12, 20261.8 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.6 s
Oct 3, 20262.9 s
Oct 10, 20263.1 s
Oct 17, 20262.8 s
Oct 24, 20262.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
258 ms153 msMay 9Oct 24243 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026172 ms
May 16, 2026173 ms
May 23, 2026168 ms
May 30, 2026165 ms
Jun 6, 2026170 ms
Jun 13, 2026173 ms
Jun 20, 2026180 ms
Jun 27, 2026180 ms
Jul 4, 2026180 ms
Jul 11, 2026178 ms
Jul 18, 2026172 ms
Jul 25, 2026175 ms
Aug 1, 2026173 ms
Aug 8, 2026173 ms
Aug 15, 2026175 ms
Aug 22, 2026176 ms
Aug 29, 2026183 ms
Sep 5, 2026192 ms
Sep 12, 2026207 ms
Sep 19, 2026227 ms
Sep 26, 2026236 ms
Oct 3, 2026241 ms
Oct 10, 2026245 ms
Oct 17, 2026246 ms
Oct 24, 2026243 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

Full-page screenshot of engine.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. engine.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. engine.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. engine.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. engine.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. engine.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. engine.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. engine.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. engine.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

engine.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

11 to fix47
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.7 s · 1.2 MB

    About 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.1 s · 691 KiB

    34 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (691 KiB).

  • reddit adds 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    reddit costs a phone 1.3 s of main-thread work and 27 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Mobile performance score: 47

    47/100

    Your mobile performance score is 47. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 6.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 6.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (reddit, Google Tag Manager and TikTok and others), adding 2.7 MB and 2.9 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 822 ms

    822 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 822 ms of main-thread work and 1.2 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    850 ms

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 850 ms.

  • Improve image delivery

    550 ms · 220 KiB

    7 images could be 220 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 550 ms faster on a phone.

  • TikTok adds 222 ms

    222 ms

    TikTok costs a phone 222 ms of main-thread work and 402 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.

  • Optanon adds 85 ms

    85 ms

    Optanon costs a phone 85 ms of main-thread work and 598 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 86 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 86 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    200 ms · 30 KiB

    About 30 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • 19 long tasks on the main thread

    19 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 196 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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  • Server response: 6 ms

    6 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 13.5 s

    13.5 s

    Your largest element takes 13.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Engine's phone app: book lodging, flights or cars, with Boo…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 28.2 s

    28.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 28.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 7.5 s

    7.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 813 ms

    813 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 813 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 42% slower for real visitors

    +42%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 172 ms to 243 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

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

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 185 ms

    185 ms

    Real visitors wait 185 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.02

    0.02

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 782 ms

    782 ms

    Real visitors wait 782 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.022

    0.022

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.022, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix60
  • Page weight: 4.0 MB in 223 requests

    4.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 223 requests on a phone: scripts 2.9 MB (87), images 709 KiB (39) and fonts 281 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    113 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Engine_Icon_Black.png at 3,760 px wide, shown at 45 px. Resized copies would save about 113 KiB.

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (390 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 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.14 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.14 g of CO₂e: 137.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9394
  • Images must have alternative text (2 elements)

    Images must have alternative text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 15 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 87 form fields without a label

    87 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 38 links without text

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

  • 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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  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 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

3 to fixGoogle 8589
  • Meta description is long (183 characters)

    Your meta description is 183 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 2 problems

    Structured data found (Organization, Service, SoftwareApplication and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Organization: logo is not an absolute URL ("/images/66ecd535db1cc991480219ea_graph-image.png")”.

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • 144 internal links, 16 external

    The homepage links to 144 pages on engine.com and 16 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Travel and spend for teams and agents.”.

  • Title: 59 characters

    Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Engine | All-in-One Travel Management Software for Business”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://engine.com/.

  • 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://engine.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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 (1,144 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (10 KiB, 56 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix93
  • 5 linked pages hidden from search

    /platform/product, /platform/product/travel-programs, /platform/product/group-room-blocks, /platform/product/event-planning and /platform/product/meeting-spaces are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 54 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 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.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 9670
  • 2 broken images

    2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=56349180&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=21ce8568-0a0c-4731-ab2a-73e2c9f90a76&bo=1&sid=1f240360d64911f1a0f56ba0ee18a720&vid=1f23fbd0d64911f180f0e7db55bfcd1f&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

  • 39 small tap targets

    39 of 49 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Sending form data to 'https://www.facebook.com/tr/' violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "form-act…”.

  • 2 distorted images

    2 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • http:// does not redirect

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

  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 180 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (engine.com).

  • Valid certificate (70 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for engine.com and is valid for another 70 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.

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 49 links work

    All 49 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 9 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

4 checks passed
  • Domain is 32 years old

    32 years

    engine.com was registered in May 1994 through Cloudflare, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only amazon.com, letsencrypt.org, ssl.com and godaddy.com to issue certificates for engine.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • DNSSEC is on

    engine.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.

  • Registered until May 2031

    engine.com is registered until May 2031.

Content and conversion

3 to fix81
  • 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.

  • No direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • 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.

  • About 874 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 874 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Join free” and “Book a demo”.

  • 16 calls to action

    The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Join free” and “Book a demo”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 25 customer or partner logos, a star rating and “40,000+ businesses”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

95
  • 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.

3 checks passed
  • 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 include:_spf.google.com include:7770829.spf08.hubspotemail.net ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 12 trackers load before any consent

    12

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amplitude, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight and 7 mores (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.

  • 41 cookies set on arrival

    41

    Opening the homepage sets 41 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 63 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 63 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
Astro
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Cloudflare

Hiring

Hiring
78 open roles
Teams
Outbound (13), Growth (8), Engineering (7), Expansion (4)
Job board
greenhouse

Company

Employees
858

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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