explico.com website review

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.0 s.

About 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.

9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (12.6 MB).

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, website-files.com and Hotjar and others), adding 13.9 MB and 892 ms of main-thread time.

website-files.com costs a phone 312 ms of main-thread work and 13.1 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.

Your mobile performance score is 53 (desktop: 99). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 395 ms of main-thread work and 361 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.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 257 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Google Fonts costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 302 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.

About 40 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

7 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Desktop scores 99 but mobile only 53. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Your largest element takes 9.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The first text or image appears after 4.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 393 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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.

Your homepage downloads 13.9 MB in 80 requests on a phone: media 12.5 MB (2), scripts 650 KiB (16) and other files 344 KiB (11). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.94 g of CO₂e: 472.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

There are 4 <h1> headlines (“Accident Reconstruction | Biomechanics | Human Fa…”, “Engage” and “Analyze”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

The homepage links to 52 pages on explico.com and 5 external pages.

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.

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.

Your homepage links to /notinuse/services-old-2022, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

/tax-1095 is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/careers and /open-positions use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/explico-videos has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

13 of 22 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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

1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://www.explico.com/notinuse/services-old-2022 (404).

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

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

explico.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.

explico.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.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

The homepage has only about 44 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar (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.

Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.