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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202628 issues · 89 checks

This review found 28 issues worth fixing on hammer.net, 9 of them high impact, across 89 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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

Full-page screenshot of hammer.net (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

7 to fix61
  • Improve image delivery

    12.5 s · 3.2 MB

    6 images could be 3.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 12.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.6 s · 272 KiB

    About 272 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: 61

    61/100

    Your mobile performance score is 61. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    800 ms

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 800 ms.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare CDN and LinkedIn Ads and others), adding 630 KiB and 570 ms of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 450 ms

    450 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 450 ms of main-thread work and 519 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.

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 251 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    280 ms · 22 KiB

    About 22 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 280 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    18 KiB

    6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (18 KiB).

  • 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 541 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 20 ms

    20 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 20 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix57
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 24.4 s

    24.4 s

    Your largest element takes 24.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 24.5 s

    24.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 24.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.0 s

    6.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 339 ms

    339 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 339 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.056

    0.056

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.056, good is under 0.1).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 4.3 MB in 54 requests

    4.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.3 MB in 54 requests on a phone: images 3.5 MB (14), scripts 716 KiB (19) and fonts 73 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image over 500 KB

    shutterstock_1227439831-1-scaled-1.png weighs 2.7 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 3 images far larger than shown

    2.5 MB

    3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example shutterstock_1227439831-1-scaled-1.png at 2,560 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 2.5 MB.

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (3.3 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 below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (634 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.22 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.22 g of CO₂e: 146.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

1 to fixGoogle 9699
  • 17 links without text

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 24 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 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9293
  • Meta description is long (186 characters)

    Your meta description is 186 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • 75 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 75 pages on hammer.net and 2 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Where Strategy Meets Execution”.

  • Title: 32 characters

    Your title is a healthy 32 characters: “Home - Weidenhammer Systems Corp”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.hammer.net/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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.hammer.net/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • 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.

3 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: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (520 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    /transform-with-business-central-mfg has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 53 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.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 2 small tap targets

    2 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “MicroModal is not defined”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix88
  • 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.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • 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 (hammer.net).

  • Valid certificate (45 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for hammer.net and is valid for another 45 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://hammer.net redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 42 links work

    All 42 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 2 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    hammer.net 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

    hammer.net'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 31 years old

    31 years

    hammer.net was registered in Mar 1995 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Mar 2033

    hammer.net is registered until Mar 2033.

Content and conversion

2 to fix81
  • 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.

  • 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 opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 415 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 415 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact Us”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 11 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

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.

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 a ip4:104.232.40.28 ip4:104.232.40.72 ip4:159.183.85.202 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:sent-via.net…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “default”), 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 LinkedIn Insight (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

    3

    Opening 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.

  • 18 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

CMS
WordPress 7.1.4
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
WordPress.com

Company

Employees
79

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