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rescale.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202647 issues · 116 checks
This review found 47 issues worth fixing on rescale.com, 16 of them high impact, across 116 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
76CClosest competitors among SaaS websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 5.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 5.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 5.7 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 5.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 5.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 5.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 6.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 6.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 7.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 7.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 7.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 7.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 7.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 7.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 7.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 7.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 6.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 6.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 6.8 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 6.8 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 6.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 6.4 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 6.3 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 6.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 186 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 180 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 205 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 228 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 236 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 237 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 224 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 204 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 204 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 201 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 205 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 200 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 202 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 199 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 202 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 209 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 207 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 217 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 219 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
Render-blocking requests
1.7 s27 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.7 s.
Mobile performance score: 40
40/100Your mobile performance score is 40. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 5.9 s
A phone's processor spends 5.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Improve image delivery
650 ms · 2.0 MB7 images could be 2.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 650 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
300 ms · 1.9 MBAbout 1.9 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Vimeo and Usercentrics CMP and others), adding 3.2 MB and 1.3 s of main-thread time.
Google Tag Manager adds 749 ms
749 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 749 ms of main-thread work and 695 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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 415 KiB33 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (415 KiB).
Vimeo adds 352 ms
352 msVimeo costs a phone 352 ms of main-thread work and 2.1 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.
2,815 HTML elements
The page has 2,815 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 266 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 20 KiBAbout 20 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.
Legacy JavaScript
53 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 53 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify JavaScript
8 KiB8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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 CSS
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 143 ms
143 msYour server sent the HTML in 143 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
Real-user LCP: 4.4 s
4.4 sReal visitors wait 4.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 4.2 s
4.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 4.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 3.4 s
3.4 sReal visitors wait 3.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 16.4 s
16.4 sYour largest element takes 16.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Built for the AI Era”.
Time to Interactive: 38.5 s
38.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 38.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 14.4 s
14.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 14.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.1 s
1.1 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s
2.3 sThe first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
17 images without width and height
17 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) got 19% slower for real visitors
+19%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 186 ms to 219 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.7 s to 6.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user INP: 155 ms
155 msReal visitors wait 155 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.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.025
0.025The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.025, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 8.7 MB in 210 requests
8.7 MBYour homepage downloads 8.7 MB in 210 requests on a phone: images 4.9 MB (55), scripts 3.3 MB (76) and stylesheets 195 KiB (32). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image over 500 KB
rescale-hero-1x1-4.png weighs 822 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
7 images far larger than shown
837 KiB7 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example rescale-hero-1x1-4.png at 1,584 px wide, shown at 340 px. Resized copies would save about 837 KiB.
9 images below the first screen load straight away
9 images further down the page (2.8 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
12 images in older formats
12 images (1.9 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 2.5 g of CO₂ per visit
2.46 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.46 g of CO₂e: 295.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
2 text elements with low contrast
2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Links look like plain text
1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one main landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one main landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
3 links without text
3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h4 → h6 and h4 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 62 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 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 8 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
18 links with vague text
18 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
8 links crawlers can't follow
8 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
388 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 388 pages on rescale.com and 3 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 155 characters
Your meta description is 155 characters: “Accelerate product breakthroughs with Rescale's digital engineering platform that transforms HPC, modeling and simulati…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Built for the AI Era”.
Title: 60 characters
Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “Rescale's Digital Engineering Platform, Built for the AI Era”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://rescale.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: ImageObject, Organization, Place, 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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://rescale.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
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, description and contact details; sameAs (social profiles) would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,283 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (135 KiB, 399 links, though it should open with a “# Title” line), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
/rescale-support-request has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
/rescale-support-request has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 88 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.
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
2 small tap targets
2 of 9 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 third-party cookies
2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Deprecated browser APIs
The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED”.
1 distorted image
1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
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.
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.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (rescale.com).
Valid certificate (60 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for rescale.com and is valid for another 60 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://rescale.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 43 links work
All 43 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 3 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
rescale.com 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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 23 years old
23 yearsrescale.com was registered in Nov 2002 through Gandi SAS. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
DNSSEC is on
rescale.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.
Registered until Nov 2031
rescale.com is registered until Nov 2031.
Content and conversion
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 11 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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.
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 983 words of copy
The homepage carries about 983 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “LEARN MORE” and “GET STARTED”.
29 calls to action
The homepage has 29 calls to action, for example “Learn More”, “Pricing” and “Contact Us”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Amplitude.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 95/100
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:mktomail.com include:_spf.elasticemail.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Usercentrics) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
5 cookies set on arrival
5Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
15 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: Usercentrics
A consent management tool (Usercentrics) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
- 2 plugins are behind their latest release.breeze 2.6.3 → 2.6.4 · gtranslate 5.0.1 → 5.0.2
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 7.1.4
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager | Amplitude
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
Company
- Employees
- 144
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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