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periogen.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202629 issues · 69 checks
This review found 29 issues worth fixing on periogen.com, 13 of them high impact, across 69 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Improve image delivery
8.0 s · 3.8 MB5 images could be 3.8 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 8.0 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.9 s · 645 KiB23 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (645 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 64
64/100Your mobile performance score is 64. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
450 ms · 261 KiBAbout 261 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
400 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 400 ms.
widgetbe.com adds 61 ms
61 mswidgetbe.com costs a phone 61 ms of main-thread work and 301 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.
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (widgetbe.com, Cloudflare and GoDaddy and others), adding 328 KiB and 84 ms of main-thread time.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 80 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
60 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 60 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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.7 s
A phone's processor spends 0.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 189 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 37 ms
37 msYour server sent the HTML in 37 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 20.6 s
20.6 sYour largest element takes 20.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Periogen oral rinse and toothpaste products”.
Time to Interactive: 25.2 s
25.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 25.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.7 s
6.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.131
0.131The layout shifts by 0.131 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
5 images without width and height
5 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
First Contentful Paint: 1.0 s
1.0 sThe first text or image appears after 1.0 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 42 ms
42 msScripts block the page for only 42 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 6.6 MB in 37 requests
6.6 MBYour homepage downloads 6.6 MB in 37 requests on a phone: images 6.1 MB (9), scripts 475 KiB (16) and fonts 44 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
4 images over 500 KB
4 images weigh 5.3 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
4 images far larger than shown
2.7 MB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example periogenkitcat.png at 1,500 px wide, shown at 331 px. Resized copies would save about 2.7 MB.
7 images in older formats
7 images (6.1 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.
2 images below the first screen load straight away
2 images further down the page (928 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.9 g of CO₂ per visit
1.88 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.88 g of CO₂e: 226.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (1 element)
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
5 text elements with low contrast
5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 11 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
47 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: 47 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (17 characters)
Your title is only 17 characters: “Periogen | OraTec”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
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 XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://oratec.net/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
136 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 136 pages on periogen.com and 1 external page.
2 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Periogen”.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
AI search readiness
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://oratec.net/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 (1,124 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 pages without a meta description
https://oratec.net/home, https://oratec.net/product/therasol-ready-to-use, https://oratec.net/product/therasol-concentrate, https://oratec.net/product/therasol-ready-to-use-with-xylitol, https://oratec.net/product/therasol-mixing-storage-bottles and https://oratec.net/product/therasol-pump and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
10 pages slow to respond
https://oratec.net/home, https://oratec.net/product/therasol-ready-to-use, https://oratec.net/product/therasol-concentrate, https://oratec.net/product/therasol-ready-to-use-with-xylitol, https://oratec.net/product/pocket-care-irrigator and https://oratec.net/product/viajet-ozone-deep-pocket-irrigation-kit and 4 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 53 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.
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 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
8 of 8 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
About 559 words of copy
The homepage carries about 559 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “● Register ›”, “Contact Us” and “Subscribe”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
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.
4 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 periogen.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 © 2004.
Stack
- Framework
- Tailwind CSS
- E-commerce
- 10 Shopify Products;Shopify;Shopify Plus
- Hosting
- AWS
Company
- Headquarters
- San Diego
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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