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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202649 issues · 109 checks

This review found 49 issues worth fixing on gapvax.com, 19 of them high impact, across 109 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
3.5 s2.3 sApr 25Oct 102.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 25, 20263.0 s
May 2, 20263.0 s
May 9, 20263.2 s
May 16, 20263.2 s
May 23, 20263.1 s
May 30, 20263.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.8 s
Jun 13, 20262.7 s
Jun 20, 20262.8 s
Jun 27, 20262.8 s
Jul 4, 20263.2 s
Jul 11, 20263.2 s
Jul 18, 20263.2 s
Jul 25, 20263.2 s
Aug 1, 20263.0 s
Aug 8, 20262.7 s
Aug 15, 20262.6 s
Aug 22, 20262.5 s
Aug 29, 20262.4 s
Sep 5, 20262.5 s
Sep 12, 20262.5 s
Sep 19, 20262.5 s
Sep 26, 20263.2 s
Oct 3, 20263.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
103 ms67 msApr 25Oct 1080 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 25, 202683 ms
May 2, 202679 ms
May 9, 202687 ms
May 16, 202694 ms
May 23, 202693 ms
May 30, 202693 ms
Jun 6, 202677 ms
Jun 13, 202677 ms
Jun 20, 202675 ms
Jun 27, 202678 ms
Jul 4, 202679 ms
Jul 11, 202673 ms
Jul 18, 202673 ms
Jul 25, 202671 ms
Aug 1, 202671 ms
Aug 8, 202674 ms
Aug 15, 202679 ms
Aug 22, 202679 ms
Aug 29, 202686 ms
Sep 5, 202685 ms
Sep 12, 202699 ms
Sep 19, 202698 ms
Oct 3, 202687 ms
Oct 10, 202680 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

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Speed

13 to fix53
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    33.6 s · 12.3 MB

    27 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (12.3 MB).

  • Improve image delivery

    26.9 s · 8.1 MB

    9 images could be 8.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 26.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    4.0 s · 674 KiB

    About 674 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    3.7 s

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.7 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    2.9 s · 412 KiB

    About 412 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Minify JavaScript

    1.1 s · 117 KiB

    117 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Mobile performance score: 53

    53/100

    Your mobile performance score is 53 (desktop: 67). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, ZenDesk and WebpageFX and others), adding 1.0 MB and 689 ms of main-thread time.

  • Minify CSS

    450 ms · 98 KiB

    98 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 368 ms

    368 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 368 ms of main-thread work and 536 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.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 410 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • ZenDesk adds 321 ms

    321 ms

    ZenDesk costs a phone 321 ms of main-thread work and 473 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.8 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 724 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    250 ms · 12 KiB

    12 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • Document request latency

    14 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • 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: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix67
  • 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: 61.0 s

    61.0 s

    Your largest element takes 61.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “MC SERIES”.

  • Time to Interactive: 62.7 s

    62.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 62.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.5 s

    4.5 s

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

  • Speed Index: 7.2 s

    7.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    Real visitors wait 2.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 302 ms

    302 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 302 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 8 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 83 ms to 80 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.0 s to 2.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 82 ms

    82 ms

    Real visitors wait 82 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (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: 570 ms

    570 ms

    Real visitors wait 570 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

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  • Page weight: 13.4 MB in 60 requests

    13.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 13.4 MB in 60 requests on a phone: images 11.6 MB (16), scripts 1.3 MB (25) and stylesheets 470 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image over 500 KB

    HV-MC-Home.jpg weighs 5.9 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (6.2 MB) 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.

  • 2 images far larger than shown

    376 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example HV-MC-Home.jpg at 4,032 px wide, shown at 1,305 px. Resized copies would save about 376 KiB.

  • About 3.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.81 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.81 g of CO₂e: 456.7 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 load when needed

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

Accessibility

9 to fixGoogle 6385
  • 3 buttons without a name

    3 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 3 tap targets too small

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

  • <html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)

    <html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Links must have discernible text (1 element)

    Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 form field without a label

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

  • No page language

    The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

  • 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 (h1 → h4 and h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • 37 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 passed and 9 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 7793
  • 8 H1 headlines

    There are 8 <h1> headlines (“HV Series”, “MC Series” and “MC Series”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • 3 links with vague text

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

  • 13 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 13 pages on gapvax.com and 2 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 154 characters

    Your meta description is 154 characters: “GapVax manufacturers the highest-end industrial vacuum & jetter trucks on the market. We keep our production in-house t…”.

  • Title: 56 characters

    Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “GapVax | The World's Most Advanced Sewer & Vacuum Trucks”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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://www.gapvax.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

  • 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.

Other pages

3 to fix88
  • 2 pages share a meta description

    /products/mc and /quote/mc use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 3 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 3 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /quote/recycle, whose canonical is /products/recycle. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page without an H1

    /inventory has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 5 pages with very little text

    /history, /support, /find-us, /parts and /inventory 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.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    /quote/mc took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 13 internal pages checked

    We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 13 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 13 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 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 7388
  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replaceNumbers') <anonymous>:1:191”.

  • 2 distorted images

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

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    15 of 18 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix83
  • 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 (gapvax.com).

  • Valid certificate (70 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR1 verifies for gapvax.com and is valid for another 70 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://gapvax.com redirects to the secure version.

  • All 15 links work

    All 15 links checked from your homepage (13 internal, 2 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    gapvax.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

    gapvax.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

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

  • Registered until Sep 2028

    gapvax.com is registered until Sep 2028.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • No social proof

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

  • 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.

  • Only about 122 words

    The homepage has only about 122 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “CONTACT/LOCATOR” and “LEARN MORE”.

  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Learn More”, “Get Quote” and “Shop Parts”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

Email authentication

90
  • 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.

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  • 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 a:dispatch-us.ppe-hosted.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ip4:207.255.5.150 include:spf.mandrillapp.com -a…”.

  • DKIM signing found

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

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

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 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.

  • 11 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 11 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 © 2024.

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