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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202651 issues · 97 checks

This review found 51 issues worth fixing on minicircuits.com, 15 of them high impact, across 97 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.7 s2.1 sJun 13Oct 312.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Jun 13, 20263.0 s
Jun 20, 20263.5 s
Jun 27, 20263.2 s
Jul 4, 20263.0 s
Jul 11, 20262.7 s
Jul 25, 20262.4 s
Aug 1, 20262.5 s
Aug 15, 20262.6 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.6 s
Oct 3, 20262.5 s
Oct 10, 20262.8 s
Oct 17, 20262.9 s
Oct 24, 20263.0 s
Oct 31, 20262.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
303 ms241 msJun 20Jul 11248 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Jun 20, 2026296 ms
Jun 27, 2026266 ms
Jul 4, 2026273 ms
Jul 11, 2026248 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 minicircuits.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

11 to fix80
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.1 s · 741 KiB

    58 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (741 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    3.2 MB

    20 images could be 3.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and Clarity and others), adding 15.8 MB and 692 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    810 ms · 709 KiB

    About 709 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 810 ms faster on a phone.

  • WordPress adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    WordPress costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 11.4 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.

  • Mobile performance score: 80

    80/100

    Your mobile performance score is 80. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    950 ms

    16 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 950 ms.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 439 ms

    439 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 439 ms of main-thread work and 1,018 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.

  • contentstack.io adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    contentstack.io costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 3.0 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.

  • Hubspot adds 135 ms

    135 ms

    Hubspot costs a phone 135 ms of main-thread work and 334 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.

  • 1,665 HTML elements

    The page has 1,665 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 44 KiB

    About 44 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 17 KiB

    17 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 164 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Legacy JavaScript

    14 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 14 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 JavaScript

    5 KiB

    5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 894 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix50
  • 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: 19.2 s

    19.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 19.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.4 s

    3.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.8 s

    2.8 s

    Real visitors wait 2.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 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: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Speed Index: 5.0 s

    5.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.4 s

    3.4 s

    Your largest element takes 3.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “This website stores cookies on your computer. These cookies…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.3 s).

  • 14 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 296 ms to 248 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

4 checks passed
  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

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

  • Largest content (LCP) got 11% faster for real visitors

    -11%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.0 s to 2.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Total Blocking Time: 152 ms

    152 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 152 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 16.2 MB in 129 requests

    16.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 16.2 MB in 129 requests on a phone: images 14.4 MB (57), scripts 1.5 MB (36) and fonts 158 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 4 images over 500 KB

    4 images weigh 8.5 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 4 images far larger than shown

    982 KiB

    4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example RF-Test-Solutions-spotlight-image.png at 900 px wide, shown at 272 px. Resized copies would save about 982 KiB.

  • 10 images below the first screen load straight away

    10 images further down the page (2.2 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 6 images in older formats

    6 images (1.3 MB) are 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.

  • About 4.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    4.59 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.59 g of CO₂e: 550.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

10 to fixGoogle 7884
  • 17 text elements with low contrast

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

  • <html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)

    <html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 32 images without alt text

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (24 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 24 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 6 links without text

    6 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 2 form fields without a label

    2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • No page language

    The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

  • Headings should not be empty (1 element)

    Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

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

1 checks passed
  • 30 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: 30 passed and 9 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

8 to fixGoogle 6766
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No H1 headline

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

  • 111 links crawlers can't follow

    111 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • No structured data

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

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • 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 incomplete here.

  • 207 internal links, 76 external

    The homepage links to 207 pages on minicircuits.com and 76 external pages.

3 checks passed
  • Title: 60 characters

    Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “Mini Circuits | Global Leader of RF and Microwave Components”.

  • 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.minicircuits.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

2 to fix70
  • 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.

  • Parts of the site are closed to 6 AI crawlers

    Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://minicircuits.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.

1 checks passed
  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,839 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix80
  • 1 page without a title

    https://minicircuits.com/WebStore/Cables.html has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://minicircuits.com/WebStore/Cables.html has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 145 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.

  • 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.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9678
  • 2 broken images

    2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://minicircuits.com/homepage/images/social_media/youtube_icon.jpg.

  • 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 ()”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix81
  • 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 map but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No opening hours

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

  • 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 802 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 802 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • 12 calls to action

    The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “Software Download”, “Software Register” and “Contact and Support”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 30 trust badges and “Over 20,000 customers”.

  • Analytics in place

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

  • Direct contact links

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

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Privacy and tracking

  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 27 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 27 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner

    A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at minicircuits.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2017.

Stack

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

Hiring

Hiring
3 open roles
Job board
jobvite

Company

Employees
600

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