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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202630 issues · 99 checks
This review found 30 issues worth fixing on iescomm.com, 13 of them high impact, across 99 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
79CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 62 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 62 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 62 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 63 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 63 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 66 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 64 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 62 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 64 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 70 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 82 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 76 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.6 s
1.2 s
1.8 s
2.4 s
2.9 s
3.5 s
4.1 s
4.7 s
iescomm.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
3.5 s14 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.5 s.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.7 s · 350 KiBAbout 350 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 44
44/100Your mobile performance score is 44. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 4.3 s
A phone's processor spends 4.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
750 ms · 29.6 MB16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (29.6 MB).
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Google CDN and cloudfront.net and others), adding 30.7 MB and 757 ms of main-thread time.
website-files.com adds 383 ms
383 mswebsite-files.com costs a phone 383 ms of main-thread work and 30.3 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.
Google CDN adds 209 ms
209 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 209 ms of main-thread work and 355 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.
7 long tasks on the main thread
7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 215 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
19 KiBAbout 19 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Improve image delivery
13 KiB1 image could be 13 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.
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: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 9.2 s
9.2 sYour largest element takes 9.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “WE POWER WHAT'S POSSIBLE”.
First Contentful Paint: 5.3 s
5.3 sThe first text or image appears after 5.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.3 s
8.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Time to Interactive: 9.2 s
9.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 9.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 23% slower for real visitors
+23%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 62 ms to 76 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Total Blocking Time: 548 ms
548 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 548 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
3 images without width and height
3 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 2.1 s
2.1 sReal visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 74 ms
74 msReal visitors wait 74 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.08
0.08For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.08 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 463 ms
463 msReal visitors wait 463 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.004
0.004The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.004, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 31.0 MB in 51 requests
31.0 MBYour homepage downloads 31.0 MB in 51 requests on a phone: media 29.2 MB (6), images 764 KiB (12) and scripts 761 KiB (16). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
2 images far larger than shown
115 KiB2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 69e290f52e80f17178ae652d_data-centers.avif at 1,338 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 115 KiB.
About 8.8 g of CO₂ per visit
8.78 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 8.78 g of CO₂e: 1054.0 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 load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
4 buttons without a name
4 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
6 text elements with low contrast
6 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
4 links without text
4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 47 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 5 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (72 characters)
Your title is 72 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Customized Network Solutions & Integration Services | IES Communications”.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (Organization) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: url is not an absolute URL ("/")”.
60 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 60 pages on iescomm.com and 7 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 147 characters
Your meta description is 147 characters: “Seamlessly designed, integrated, and supported network solutions, customized for your business or organization. Nationw…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “WE POWER WHAT'S POSSIBLE”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.iescomm.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://www.iescomm.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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 description; sameAs (social profiles) and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (825 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (35 KiB, 129 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 39 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 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.
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.
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
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.iescomm.com/.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
17 of 17 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://joinus.ies-co.com/iescommunications?utm_source=website&utm_medium=apply_now (404).
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.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (iescomm.com).
Valid certificate (77 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for iescomm.com and is valid for another 77 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://iescomm.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
iescomm.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
iescomm.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 15 years old
15 yearsiescomm.com was registered in Aug 2011 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Aug 2027
iescomm.com is registered until Aug 2027.
Content and conversion
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.
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 480 words of copy
The homepage carries about 480 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “START A CONVERSATION”.
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Apply now”, “Contact US” and “Start a Conversation”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Email authentication
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
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 score: 75/100
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
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine 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:spf.zohomail360.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mail.zendesk.com include:spf-us.emailsignatures365.…”.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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
4Opening 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.
12 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 12 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 Analytics
- Hosting
- Webflow
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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