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expressgoc.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202636 issues · 100 checks
This review found 36 issues worth fixing on expressgoc.com, 8 of them high impact, across 100 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
78CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.5 s · 662 KiB35 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (662 KiB).
Improve image delivery
1.4 s · 239 KiB5 images could be 239 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
1.5 s11 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.5 s.
Mobile performance score: 73
73/100Your mobile performance score is 73. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
780 ms · 139 KiBAbout 139 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 780 ms faster on a phone.
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts and Google Analytics), adding 288 KiB and 214 ms of main-thread time.
Font display
200 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).
Reduce unused CSS
160 ms · 15 KiBAbout 15 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 160 ms faster on a phone.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 129 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Minify JavaScript
120 ms · 8 KiB8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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.
Legacy JavaScript
5 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 5 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify CSS
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.7 s
A phone's processor spends 0.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 289 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 1 ms
1 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.1 s
6.1 sYour largest element takes 6.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “slider”.
Speed Index: 5.1 s
5.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Time to Interactive: 6.1 s
6.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 6.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
4 images without width and height
4 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.
3 checks passed
First Contentful Paint: 1.6 s
1.6 sThe first text or image appears after 1.6 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 103 ms
103 msScripts block the page for only 103 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
1 image far larger than shown
107 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example bg2.jpg at 1,600 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 107 KiB.
2 images in older formats
2 images (376 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.
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (22 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit
0.26 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.26 g of CO₂e: 31.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Page weight: 955 KiB in 41 requests
955 KiBYour homepage downloads 955 KiB in 41 requests on a phone: images 444 KiB (8), scripts 378 KiB (17) and fonts 77 KiB (2). That is a lean page.
Accessibility
3 images without alt text
3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)
Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h5, h2 → h5 and h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
29 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 35 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 29 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
Meta description is long (299 characters)
Your meta description is 299 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at expressgoc.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
2 links with vague text
2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
12 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 12 pages on expressgoc.com and 11 external pages.
2 checks passed
Title: 40 characters
Your title is a healthy 40 characters: “Express GOC - Express Group Of Companies”.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://expressgoc.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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
There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (293 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 linked page is broken
Your homepage links to /locations.php, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.
5 pages share a title
/, /news.php, /history.php, /team.php and /contact.php all use the title “Express GOC - Express Group Of Companies”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
4 pages share a meta description
/news.php, /history.php, /team.php and /contact.php use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
4 pages without an H1
/news.php, /history.php, /team.php and /contact.php have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
2 pages with very little text
/team.php and /contact.php have 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.
6 internal pages checked
We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 4 pages that loaded have a meta description.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 4 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
16 small tap targets
16 of 18 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Mixed Content: The page at 'https://expressgoc.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure stylesheet 'http:…”.
1 distorted image
1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Mixed content”).
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
1 broken link to your own pages
1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://expressgoc.com/locations.php (404).
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.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.expressgoc.com/edu.
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.
4 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (expressgoc.com).
Valid certificate (194 days left)
The certificate from GoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 verifies for expressgoc.com and is valid for another 194 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://expressgoc.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
expressgoc.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
expressgoc.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 8 years old
8 yearsexpressgoc.com was registered in May 2018 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until May 2028
expressgoc.com is registered until May 2028.
Content and conversion
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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 250 words of copy
The homepage carries about 250 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 US”.
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Contact Us” and “Learn More”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 3 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
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.
3 checks passed
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.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
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and 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.
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 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.
2 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2019.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- GoDaddy
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