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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 25 October 202633 issues · 79 checks

This review found 33 issues worth fixing on refractone.com, 12 of them high impact, across 79 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. refractone.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  2. refractone.com at 3.1 s3.1 s
  3. refractone.com at 4.7 s4.7 s
  4. refractone.com at 6.2 s6.2 s
  5. refractone.com at 7.8 s7.8 s
  6. refractone.com at 9.4 s9.4 s
  7. refractone.com at 10.9 s10.9 s
  8. refractone.com at 12.5 s12.5 s

Speed

8 to fix54
  • Render-blocking requests

    4.6 s

    46 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.6 s.

  • Main-thread work: 6.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 6.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 822 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    2.1 MB

    140 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.1 MB).

  • Mobile performance score: 54

    54/100

    Your mobile performance score is 54 (desktop: 80). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    480 ms · 75 KiB

    About 75 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 480 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    302 KiB

    5 images could be 302 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    288 KiB

    About 288 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 2,033 HTML elements

    The page has 2,033 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, jQuery CDN and cdn-cookieyes.com and others), adding 463 KiB and 361 ms of main-thread time.

  • Minify CSS

    180 ms · 20 KiB

    20 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 9 long tasks on the main thread

    9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 103 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify JavaScript

    49 KiB

    49 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 80 but mobile only 54. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 532 ms

    532 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 532 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix63
  • Speed Index: 16.4 s

    16.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 16.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.9 s

    8.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 4.4 s

    4.4 s

    Your largest element takes 4.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “logo”. Most of its time is element render delay (7.7 s).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.232

    0.232

    The layout shifts by 0.232 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • 24 images without width and height

    24 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.

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  • Total Blocking Time: 133 ms

    133 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 133 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 3.3 MB in 178 requests

    3.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.3 MB in 178 requests on a phone: media 1.7 MB (3), scripts 660 KiB (41) and images 582 KiB (72). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.93 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.93 g of CO₂e: 111.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

9 to fixGoogle 8189
  • 5 buttons without a name

    5 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 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.

  • 3 tap targets too small

    3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

    Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (149 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 149 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 25 links without text

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

  • 3 form fields without a label

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

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (12 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 12 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 166 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 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 9 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 8584
  • Title is long (73 characters)

    Your title is 73 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “RefractOne | Enterprise Intelligence & AI-Driven Market Research Platform”.

  • Meta description is long (200 characters)

    Your meta description is 200 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 7 links with vague text

    7 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • 57 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 57 pages on refractone.com and 6 external pages.

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  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “RefractOne is your One Intelligence Engine for strategic business decisions.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://refractone.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Article, BreadcrumbList, Organization, Person and WebPage.

  • 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://refractone.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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.

  • Organization data: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description; contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,819 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://refractone.com/llms.txt (5 KiB, 39 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 26 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 9671
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://refractone.com/.

  • 7 small tap targets

    7 of 28 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error: <svg> attribute width: Expected length, "auto".”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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  • 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 street address 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 map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 1,613 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,613 words of visible text.

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  • 16 calls to action

    The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Get Started” and “Get Pricing”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (3 fields at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 110 testimonial or review blocks and “150+ Clients”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity and LinkedIn Insight.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

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

  • 2 cookies set on arrival

    2

    Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 9 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: CookieYes

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

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager

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