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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202612 issues · 48 checks

This review found 12 issues worth fixing on plascon.com, 6 of them high impact, across 48 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
10.4 s1.8 sMay 16Oct 319.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20262.8 s
May 23, 20262.8 s
May 30, 20262.9 s
Jun 6, 20262.9 s
Jun 13, 20263.0 s
Jun 20, 20263.0 s
Jun 27, 20263.1 s
Jul 4, 20263.1 s
Jul 11, 20263.1 s
Jul 18, 20263.2 s
Jul 25, 20263.2 s
Aug 1, 20263.1 s
Aug 8, 20263.1 s
Aug 15, 20263.0 s
Aug 22, 20263.0 s
Aug 29, 20263.0 s
Sep 5, 20263.8 s
Sep 12, 20265.2 s
Sep 19, 20266.1 s
Sep 26, 20266.8 s
Oct 3, 20267.1 s
Oct 10, 20267.7 s
Oct 17, 20268.0 s
Oct 24, 20268.7 s
Oct 31, 20269.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
170 ms133 msMay 16Oct 31145 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026166 ms
May 23, 2026156 ms
May 30, 2026159 ms
Jun 6, 2026160 ms
Jun 13, 2026157 ms
Jun 20, 2026164 ms
Jun 27, 2026160 ms
Jul 4, 2026157 ms
Jul 11, 2026153 ms
Jul 18, 2026153 ms
Jul 25, 2026155 ms
Aug 1, 2026158 ms
Aug 8, 2026157 ms
Aug 15, 2026150 ms
Aug 22, 2026143 ms
Aug 29, 2026138 ms
Sep 5, 2026137 ms
Sep 12, 2026139 ms
Sep 19, 2026139 ms
Sep 26, 2026141 ms
Oct 3, 2026152 ms
Oct 10, 2026155 ms
Oct 17, 2026150 ms
Oct 24, 2026149 ms
Oct 31, 2026145 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

Live view · interaction off

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user LCP: 8.9 s

    8.9 s

    Real visitors wait 8.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 8.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 6.9 s

    6.9 s

    Real visitors wait 6.9 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 224% slower for real visitors

    +224%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 9.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 166 ms to 145 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 141 ms

    141 ms

    Real visitors wait 141 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.

Accessibility

100
  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 346 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

SEO

1 to fix96
  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://plascon.co.za/sitemap_index.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • 429 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 429 pages on plascon.com and 7 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 127 characters

    Your meta description is 127 characters: “Our premium interior and exterior paints offer a wide range of colours and finishes for every surface. Together we've g…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Products”.

  • Title: 57 characters

    Your title is a healthy 57 characters: “Plascon Paint - Decorative, Industrial & Automotive Paint”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://plascon.co.za/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: ImageObject, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • 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.

1 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.

Other pages

  • Your server turned our page checks away

    15 pages we tried to fetch timed out or refused automated requests, so these checks couldn't run. Some firewalls do this to every bot, including search engine crawlers they don't recognise.

Best practices

100
1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix86
  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • 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.

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://web.facebook.com/PlasconSA/?_rdc=1&_rdr.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (plascon.co.za).

  • Valid certificate (53 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR1 verifies for plascon.com and is valid for another 53 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 46 links work

    All 46 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 6 external) answered without errors; 39 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    plascon.co.za 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.

Content and conversion

2 to fix75
  • 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.

  • About 5,427 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 5,427 words of visible text.

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  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”.

  • 4 short forms

    4 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Meta Pixel.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

1 to fix60
  • No SPF record

    plascon.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

  • Domain receives no email

    plascon.com has no MX record, so it receives no email. SPF -all and DMARC reject still matter: they stop others sending mail as you.

  • Email authentication score: 60/100

    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.

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  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
Vue.js
E-commerce
WooCommerce
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager

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