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highway.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202633 issues · 98 checks
This review found 33 issues worth fixing on highway.com, 5 of them high impact, across 98 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
86BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 4.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 4.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 137 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 113 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 103 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 103 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 117 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 112 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
Speed
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google Tag Manager and website-files.com and others), adding 1.9 MB and 1.5 s of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 51
51/100Your mobile performance score is 51 (desktop: 71). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
691 KiBAbout 691 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
YouTube adds 494 ms
494 msYouTube costs a phone 494 ms of main-thread work and 1,011 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 190 KiBAbout 190 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 436 ms
436 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 436 ms of main-thread work and 362 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.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
website-files.com adds 317 ms
317 mswebsite-files.com costs a phone 317 ms of main-thread work and 358 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.
12 long tasks on the main thread
12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 322 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Main-thread work: 3.0 s
A phone's processor spends 3.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
96 KiB12 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (96 KiB).
Improve image delivery
50 ms · 27 KiB2 images could be 27 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.
Minify CSS
15 KiB15 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
1 checks passed
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
Time to Interactive: 15.9 s
15.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.264
0.264The layout shifts by 0.264 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.1 s
4.1 sYour largest element takes 4.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Total Blocking Time: 628 ms
628 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 628 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user TTFB: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
2.7 sThe first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 3.8 s
3.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
2 images without width and height
2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
6 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 89 ms
89 msReal visitors wait 89 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 25% faster for real visitors
-25%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 163 ms to 112 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 15% faster for real visitors
-15%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.4 s to 3.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.0 MB in 75 requests
2.0 MBYour homepage downloads 2.0 MB in 75 requests on a phone: scripts 1.5 MB (26), HTML 180 KiB (3) and images 143 KiB (14). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
6916392e700cf29b0ecfbf9a_Group 5842.avif is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit
0.58 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.58 g of CO₂e: 69.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 72 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
39 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 39 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 39 passed and 0 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“It all starts with Carrier Identity” and “Built for both sides of the load.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
72 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 72 pages on highway.com and 1 external page.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 106 characters
Your meta description is 106 characters: “Highway identifies who's really hauling your freight to reduce fraud and supercharge your digital bookings”.
Title: 52 characters
Your title is a healthy 52 characters: “Highway - It all starts with Carrier Identity | Home”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://highway.com/.
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://highway.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.
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.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (15 KiB, 51 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
/products/load-lock-plus has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
3 pages without an H1
/products/know-your-driver, /products/performance-guarantee and /products/lane-intelligence have 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 26 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 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.
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
5 third-party cookies
5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
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
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (highway.com).
Valid certificate (157 days left)
The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04 verifies for highway.com and is valid for another 157 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://highway.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.
All 33 links work
All 33 links checked from your homepage (32 internal, 1 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
highway.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
highway.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 30 years old
30 yearshighway.com was registered in Aug 1996 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Aug 2027
highway.com is registered until Aug 2027.
Content and conversion
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 phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 39 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
Only about 53 words
The homepage has only about 53 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Get a Demo”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Get a Demo”, “Download Now” and “Subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter”.
1 short form
A short form (6 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 95/100
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: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:46456425.spf03.hubspotemail.net inclu…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “selector1” and “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Microsoft Clarity (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.
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
25 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 25 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
- Webflow
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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