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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 25 October 202631 issues · 87 checks

This review found 31 issues worth fixing on kemin.com, 13 of them high impact, across 87 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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 s1.9 sMay 2Oct 172.0 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20262.5 s
May 9, 20262.5 s
May 16, 20262.5 s
May 23, 20262.5 s
May 30, 20262.5 s
Jun 6, 20262.5 s
Jun 13, 20262.5 s
Jun 20, 20262.5 s
Jun 27, 20262.5 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.4 s
Jul 18, 20262.3 s
Jul 25, 20262.2 s
Aug 1, 20262.2 s
Aug 8, 20262.1 s
Aug 15, 20262.1 s
Aug 22, 20262.0 s
Aug 29, 20262.0 s
Sep 5, 20262.0 s
Sep 12, 20262.0 s
Sep 19, 20262.0 s
Sep 26, 20262.1 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20262.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
123 ms108 msMay 2Oct 17121 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 2026111 ms
May 9, 2026110 ms
May 16, 2026111 ms
May 23, 2026112 ms
May 30, 2026114 ms
Jun 6, 2026114 ms
Jun 13, 2026114 ms
Jun 20, 2026114 ms
Jun 27, 2026113 ms
Jul 4, 2026116 ms
Jul 11, 2026116 ms
Jul 18, 2026115 ms
Jul 25, 2026115 ms
Aug 1, 2026115 ms
Aug 8, 2026114 ms
Aug 15, 2026113 ms
Aug 22, 2026113 ms
Aug 29, 2026111 ms
Sep 5, 2026115 ms
Sep 12, 2026118 ms
Sep 19, 2026117 ms
Sep 26, 2026120 ms
Oct 3, 2026119 ms
Oct 10, 2026120 ms
Oct 17, 2026121 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

Full-page screenshot of kemin.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. kemin.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. kemin.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. kemin.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. kemin.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. kemin.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. kemin.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. kemin.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. kemin.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

11 to fix45
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.6 s · 476 KiB

    About 476 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.3 s · 380 KiB

    29 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (380 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.3 s

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 45

    45/100

    Your mobile performance score is 45 (desktop: 83). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Wistia, coveo.com and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 1.2 MB and 691 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    600 ms · 107 KiB

    About 107 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • 9 long tasks on the main thread

    9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 349 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Wistia adds 252 ms

    252 ms

    Wistia costs a phone 252 ms of main-thread work and 354 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 2,413 HTML elements

    The page has 2,413 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • coveo.com adds 139 ms

    139 ms

    coveo.com costs a phone 139 ms of main-thread work and 303 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 26 KiB

    26 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Improve image delivery

    50 ms · 34 KiB

    2 images could be 34 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.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    14 KiB

    14 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 83 but mobile only 45. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    7 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 7 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.

  • Minify CSS

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 13.5 s

    13.5 s

    Your largest element takes 13.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Man and Women in Lab”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.7 s

    5.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 14.6 s

    14.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 14.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.6 s

    8.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 474 ms

    474 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 474 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 111 ms to 121 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

8 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: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 96 ms

    96 ms

    Real visitors wait 96 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.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 528 ms

    528 ms

    Real visitors wait 528 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 19% faster for real visitors

    -19%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.2 MB in 87 requests

    2.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 87 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (32), images 590 KiB (28) and fonts 214 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (43 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 2 images below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (129 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.63 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.63 g of CO₂e: 75.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 9195
  • Required ARIA attributes must be provided (1 element)

    Required ARIA attributes must be provided: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 1 button without a name

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (17 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 17 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 38 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9284
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 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.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 100 internal links, 8 external

    The homepage links to 100 pages on kemin.com and 8 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 137 characters

    Your meta description is 137 characters: “Using applied science, Kemin Industries manufactures over 500 specialty ingredients to improve the quality of life worl…”.

  • Title: 57 characters

    Your title is a healthy 57 characters: “Kemin | Global Ingredient Supplier | Kemin Industries USA”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.kemin.com/na/en-us/home.

  • 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.kemin.com/sitemap.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://www.kemin.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 (596 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 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

3 to fixGoogle 7385
  • 13 small tap targets

    13 of 27 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Loading the script 'https://browser.sentry-cdn.com/9.6.1/bundle.min.js' violates the following Content Security Policy …”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix50
  • 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.

  • 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 507 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 507 words of visible text.

2 checks passed
  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Learn More” and “Contact Kemin”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Privacy and tracking

  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager and HubSpot (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Cookiebot

    A consent management tool (Cookiebot) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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