hexglow.com website review

9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

Your mobile performance score is 88. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Klaviyo and squarecdn.com and others), adding 1.7 MB and 401 ms of main-thread time.

3 images could be 176 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

About 285 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (283 KiB).

Shopify costs a phone 175 ms of main-thread work and 1.0 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 990 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 1,701 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Klaviyo costs a phone 95 ms of main-thread work and 307 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 84 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 58 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 43 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

28 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The page becomes fully interactive after 12.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 3.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 104 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 559 requests on a phone: scripts 1.5 MB (239), other files 1.3 MB (238) and images 470 KiB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.03 g of CO₂e: 123.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

Your title is 73 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “HexGlow® Lighting Official Site - Hexagon LED Lighting – HexGlow Lighting”.

The homepage links to 57 pages on hexglow.com and 9 external pages.

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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://facebook.com/hexglowlighting.

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.

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

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

hexglow.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.

hexglow.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 analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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

The homepage carries about 730 words of visible text.

hexglow.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be hexglow.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

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, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 1 more (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 15 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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 32 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.