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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 31 October 202639 issues · 104 checks

This review found 39 issues worth fixing on igus.com, 13 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.6 s2.2 sMay 9Oct 242.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.4 s
May 16, 20262.4 s
May 23, 20262.3 s
May 30, 20262.3 s
Jun 6, 20262.3 s
Jun 13, 20262.3 s
Jun 20, 20262.4 s
Jun 27, 20262.4 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.5 s
Jul 18, 20262.4 s
Jul 25, 20262.4 s
Aug 1, 20262.4 s
Aug 8, 20262.4 s
Aug 15, 20262.5 s
Aug 22, 20262.5 s
Aug 29, 20262.4 s
Sep 5, 20262.4 s
Sep 12, 20262.4 s
Sep 19, 20262.4 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.3 s
Oct 17, 20262.4 s
Oct 24, 20262.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
210 ms151 msMay 9Oct 24180 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026203 ms
May 16, 2026183 ms
May 23, 2026165 ms
May 30, 2026158 ms
Jun 6, 2026167 ms
Jun 13, 2026170 ms
Jun 20, 2026179 ms
Jun 27, 2026180 ms
Jul 4, 2026181 ms
Jul 11, 2026187 ms
Jul 18, 2026197 ms
Jul 25, 2026187 ms
Aug 1, 2026177 ms
Aug 8, 2026187 ms
Aug 15, 2026177 ms
Aug 22, 2026178 ms
Aug 29, 2026179 ms
Sep 5, 2026162 ms
Sep 12, 2026163 ms
Sep 19, 2026163 ms
Sep 26, 2026169 ms
Oct 3, 2026171 ms
Oct 10, 2026178 ms
Oct 17, 2026184 ms
Oct 24, 2026180 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

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Speed

11 to fix53
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.0 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

  • Main-thread work: 4.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 3,128 HTML elements

    The page has 3,128 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, piwik.pro and Facebook and others), adding 1.3 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 1.0 MB

    About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 53

    53/100

    Your mobile performance score is 53. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 533 ms

    533 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 533 ms of main-thread work and 485 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    532 KiB

    31 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (532 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 121 KiB

    About 121 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.

  • piwik.pro adds 303 ms

    303 ms

    piwik.pro costs a phone 303 ms of main-thread work and 213 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.

  • Facebook adds 262 ms

    262 ms

    Facebook costs a phone 262 ms of main-thread work and 308 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.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 234 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    160 KiB

    8 images could be 160 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    37 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 37 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Minify JavaScript

    7 KiB

    7 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Forced reflow

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

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  • Server response: 283 ms

    283 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 283 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix100
  • 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: 19.1 s

    19.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 19.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.1 s

    8.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 944 ms

    944 ms

    Real visitors wait 944 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    Your largest element takes 3.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Reduce your downtime, increase service life & save cost for…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.3 s).

  • 33 images without width and height

    33 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 203 ms to 180 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.4 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors wait 2.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 179 ms

    179 ms

    Real visitors wait 179 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.02

    0.02

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.02, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix75
  • Page weight: 2.7 MB in 126 requests

    2.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.7 MB in 126 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (55), images 312 KiB (31) and fonts 150 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    50 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example FL_icon 1.c0f82bbd.webp at 1,424 px wide, shown at 126 px. Resized copies would save about 50 KiB.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (138 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.77 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.77 g of CO₂e: 91.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 7890
  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • 20 text elements with low contrast

    20 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • 2 tap targets too small

    2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Headings skip levels

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 39 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 41 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: 41 passed and 7 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 451 internal links, 46 external

    The homepage links to 451 pages on igus.com and 46 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 142 characters

    Your meta description is 142 characters: “Choose from a variety of plastic components, such as plain & linear bearings, cable carriers, continuous-flex cables, a…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “High-Performance Polymer Solutions & Technologies”.

  • Title: 47 characters

    Your title is a healthy 47 characters: “Dry-running motion plastics® components | igus®”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.igus.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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.igus.com/sitemap_www.igus.com-cms-en-US.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

  • 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.

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 (2,233 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix93
  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    /company/customer-feedback is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 193 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.

  • 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.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9678
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=5525208&Ver=2&mid=efb9db97-34f8-4b73-a773-1229cffe5925&bo=3&sid=b0e46cf0d52f11f18afd7f03e2c9261e&vid=b0e48820d52f11f19bd62f854d6bface&vids=0&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg=.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)”.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    690 of 691 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix92
  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (igus.com).

  • Valid certificate (174 days left)

    The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01 verifies for igus.com and is valid for another 174 days.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://igus.com redirects to the secure version.

  • All 60 links work

    All 60 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 20 external) answered without errors; 2 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    igus.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

    igus.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.

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  • Domain is 31 years old

    31 years

    igus.com was registered in Aug 1995 through EuroDNS S.A.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Aug 2027

    igus.com is registered until Aug 2027.

Content and conversion

3 to fix79
  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a map 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: 5 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • 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 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 2,205 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 2,205 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop” and “Medical & Contact-Free”.

  • 19 calls to action

    The homepage has 19 calls to action, for example “Start Search”, “Shop” and “Medical & Contact-Free”.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Email authentication

2 to fix65
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be igus.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • 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: 65/100

    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.

1 checks passed
  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:igus.net -all”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Microsoft Ads and X (Twitter) Ads (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.

  • 15 cookies set on arrival

    15

    Opening the homepage sets 15 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.

  • 28 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 28 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
Next.js
Hosting
AWS

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