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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202630 issues · 98 checks

This review found 30 issues worth fixing on flatrocktech.com, 8 of them high impact, across 98 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
7.0 s3.1 sMay 9Oct 243.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20266.3 s
May 16, 20266.4 s
May 23, 20265.9 s
May 30, 20265.8 s
Jun 6, 20265.6 s
Jun 13, 20265.5 s
Jun 20, 20265.6 s
Jun 27, 20265.6 s
Jul 4, 20265.4 s
Jul 11, 20265.6 s
Jul 18, 20266.1 s
Jul 25, 20266.3 s
Aug 1, 20266.6 s
Aug 8, 20266.1 s
Aug 15, 20265.6 s
Aug 22, 20264.7 s
Aug 29, 20264.0 s
Sep 5, 20263.9 s
Sep 12, 20263.8 s
Sep 19, 20263.7 s
Sep 26, 20263.7 s
Oct 3, 20263.7 s
Oct 10, 20263.6 s
Oct 17, 20263.7 s
Oct 24, 20263.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
240 ms133 msMay 9Oct 24173 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026215 ms
May 16, 2026227 ms
May 23, 2026221 ms
May 30, 2026210 ms
Jun 6, 2026203 ms
Jun 13, 2026185 ms
Jun 20, 2026184 ms
Jun 27, 2026182 ms
Jul 4, 2026179 ms
Jul 11, 2026184 ms
Jul 18, 2026191 ms
Jul 25, 2026210 ms
Aug 1, 2026228 ms
Aug 8, 2026198 ms
Aug 15, 2026189 ms
Aug 22, 2026168 ms
Aug 29, 2026152 ms
Sep 5, 2026161 ms
Sep 12, 2026160 ms
Sep 19, 2026145 ms
Sep 26, 2026160 ms
Oct 3, 2026170 ms
Oct 10, 2026171 ms
Oct 17, 2026173 ms
Oct 24, 2026173 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

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Speed

8 to fix68
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.6 s · 475 KiB

    About 475 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 68

    68/100

    Your mobile performance score is 68 (desktop: 85). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    650 ms · 329 KiB

    26 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (329 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 26 KiB

    About 26 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    300 ms · 24 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 2.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 981 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 1,571 HTML elements

    The page has 1,571 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • tidio.co adds 89 ms

    89 ms

    tidio.co costs a phone 89 ms of main-thread work and 515 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.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (tidio.co, cdn-cookieyes.com and Cloudflare), adding 558 KiB and 111 ms of main-thread time.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 153 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Render-blocking requests

    150 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.

  • Improve image delivery

    21 KiB

    2 images could be 21 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 29 ms

    29 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 29 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix50
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 8.3 s

    8.3 s

    Your largest element takes 8.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, serve p…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 11.6 s

    11.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 11.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    Real visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors wait 1.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Speed Index: 5.7 s

    5.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

7 checks passed
  • 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: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 22% faster for real visitors

    -22%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 215 ms to 173 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 43% faster for real visitors

    -43%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 6.3 s to 3.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 160 ms

    160 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 160 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.02

    0.02

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.02, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.2 MB in 90 requests

    2.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 90 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (24), fonts 681 KiB (4) and images 304 KiB (32). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.63 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.63 g of CO₂e: 76.1 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

5 to fixGoogle 8893
  • 4 tap targets too small

    4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

    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 (2 elements)

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

  • 2 links without text

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

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5, h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 63 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 44 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 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 10089
  • 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.

  • 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 X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 47 internal links, 14 external

    The homepage links to 47 pages on flatrocktech.com and 14 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 157 characters

    Your meta description is 157 characters: “Custom software development, AI and IT outsourcing, onshore, nearshore and offshore. Trusted since 2008, with 300+ spec…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “We make<IT>|work.”.

  • Title: 53 characters

    Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “Software Development, AI & IT Outsourcing | Flat Rock”.

  • 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://flatrocktech.com/sitemap.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.

2 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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (659 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without an H1

    /contact-us has 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 34 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

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 26 small tap targets

    26 of 32 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

2 checks passed
  • 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 fix75
  • 1 broken link to your own pages

    1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://flatrocktech.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection (404).

  • 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.

  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 182 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • 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 (flatrocktech.com).

  • Valid certificate (35 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for flatrocktech.com and is valid for another 35 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://flatrocktech.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.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    flatrocktech.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

    flatrocktech.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 18 years old

    18 years

    flatrocktech.com was registered in Jan 2008 through EuroDNS S.A.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jan 2028

    flatrocktech.com is registered until Jan 2028.

Content and conversion

1 to fix80
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • 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 645 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 645 words of visible text.

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  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Book A Call” and “Talk To An AI Expert”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 6 testimonial or review blocks, 2 customer or partner logos, a star rating, 2 trust badges and “15+ Clients”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity, HubSpot and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 6 phone links and 0 email links.

Email authentication

1 to fix70
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be flatrocktech.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 70/100

    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.

2 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mailgun.org ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 3 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

2 checks passed
  • Consent tool: CookieYes

    A consent management tool (CookieYes) 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
WordPress
Framework
Next.js
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Cloudflare

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