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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202635 issues · 84 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on ignite-etrm.com, 11 of them high impact, across 84 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

Full-page screenshot of ignite-etrm.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. ignite-etrm.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  2. ignite-etrm.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  3. ignite-etrm.com at 3.8 s3.8 s
  4. ignite-etrm.com at 5.1 s5.1 s
  5. ignite-etrm.com at 6.3 s6.3 s
  6. ignite-etrm.com at 7.6 s7.6 s
  7. ignite-etrm.com at 8.9 s8.9 s
  8. ignite-etrm.com at 10.2 s10.2 s

Speed

9 to fix79
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.0 s · 4.9 MB

    61 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4.9 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.3 s

    19 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.3 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 79

    79/100

    Your mobile performance score is 79. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and Google CDN and others), adding 1.5 MB and 556 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    700 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 700 ms).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    627 KiB

    About 627 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 332 ms

    332 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 332 ms of main-thread work and 581 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.

  • Hubspot adds 209 ms

    209 ms

    Hubspot costs a phone 209 ms of main-thread work and 604 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.

  • Google Fonts adds 1 ms

    1 ms

    Google Fonts costs a phone 1 ms of main-thread work and 300 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.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 134 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    52 KiB

    About 52 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Improve image delivery

    12 KiB

    2 images could be 12 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    11 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 723 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 203 ms

    203 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 203 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix90
  • Speed Index: 16.7 s

    16.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 16.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 20.9 s

    20.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 20.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Your largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “IGNITE brings physical and financial trading, risk, P&L, lo…”. Most of its time is element render delay (7.2 s).

  • 8 images without width and height

    8 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
  • Total Blocking Time: 110 ms

    110 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 110 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.015

    0.015

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.015, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 5.8 MB in 103 requests

    5.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.8 MB in 103 requests on a phone: media 2.5 MB (2), scripts 1.5 MB (21) and fonts 1.3 MB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.65 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.65 g of CO₂e: 198.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 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.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 7688
  • Invalid ARIA attributes

    2 elements use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

  • 1 button without a name

    1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • Links look like plain text

    2 links inside paragraphs rely on colour alone to stand out.

  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 6 images without alt text

    6 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Headings should not be empty (6 elements)

    Headings should not be empty: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h5, h2 → h5 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed
  • 42 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 8 failed. 6 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 7793
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

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

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • 17 internal links, 3 external

    The homepage links to 17 pages on ignite-etrm.com and 3 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 141 characters

    Your meta description is 141 characters: “ETRM & CTRM SaaS software designed for performance! Boost your trading with speed & technology advantages. Ideal for st…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “IGNITE, Fueling the Power to Trade™”.

  • Title: 38 characters

    Your title is a healthy 38 characters: “CTRM Software | ETRM Software | IGNITE”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://ignite-etrm.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://ignite-etrm.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://ignite-etrm.com/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.

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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,825 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

4 to fix81
  • 2 pages share a title

    https://ignite-etrm.com/contact-us and https://ignite-etrm.com/contact all use the title “Contact Us | Energy Trading | IGNITE”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    https://ignite-etrm.com/contact-us and https://ignite-etrm.com/contact use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://ignite-etrm.com/contact, whose canonical is https://ignite-etrm.com/contact-us. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 10 pages without an H1

    https://ignite-etrm.com/resources, https://ignite-etrm.com/resources/blogs, https://ignite-etrm.com/resources/pr, https://ignite-etrm.com/resources/casestudies, https://ignite-etrm.com/resources/factsheets and https://ignite-etrm.com/resources/industry-insights and 4 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 4 pages slow to respond

    https://ignite-etrm.com/industries-3, https://ignite-etrm.com/resources, https://ignite-etrm.com/resources/blogs and https://ignite-etrm.com/resources/pr took over 3 s to send their 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.

4 checks passed
  • 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.

  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 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

    5 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix71
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 84 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No opening hours

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

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 1,304 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,304 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • 1 call to action

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and HubSpot.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 3 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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.

  • 7 cookies set on arrival

    7

    Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies, 2 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.

  • 14 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Azure

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