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plascon.com website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- 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.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 5.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 6.8 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 7.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 7.7 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 8.0 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 8.7 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 9.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 166 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 156 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 164 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 139 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 139 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 141 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 145 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
Speed
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
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 sReal 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 sReal 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 sReal 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).
2 checks passed
Real-user INP: 141 ms
141 msReal visitors wait 141 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Accessibility
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 346 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
SEO
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
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
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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.
5 checks passed
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
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.
4 checks passed
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
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.
2 checks passed
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
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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