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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202628 issues · 74 checks

This review found 28 issues worth fixing on sparesplc.com, 5 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: 1 text element with low contrast. 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 sparesplc.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. sparesplc.com at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. sparesplc.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  3. sparesplc.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  4. sparesplc.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  5. sparesplc.com at 3.7 s3.7 s
  6. sparesplc.com at 4.4 s4.4 s
  7. sparesplc.com at 5.1 s5.1 s
  8. sparesplc.com at 5.9 s5.9 s

Speed

8 to fix87
  • Mobile performance score: 87

    87/100

    Your mobile performance score is 87. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Shopify and Trust Pilot and others), adding 1.4 MB and 835 ms of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    450 ms

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 391 ms

    391 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 391 ms of main-thread work and 512 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.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    362 KiB

    About 362 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Main-thread work: 3.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Shopify adds 274 ms

    274 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 274 ms of main-thread work and 643 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.

  • 1,850 HTML elements

    The page has 1,850 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 178 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    162 KiB

    3 images could be 162 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    91 KiB

    17 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (91 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    23 KiB

    About 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    20 KiB

    20 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    9 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 9 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

  • Minify JavaScript

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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  • Server response: 65 ms

    65 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 65 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix85
  • Time to Interactive: 13.5 s

    13.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 13.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.4 s

    3.4 s

    Your largest element takes 3.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Products for industrial, energy, marine and military automa…”.

  • Speed Index: 3.5 s

    3.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 201 ms

    201 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 201 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 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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  • First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.036

    0.036

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.036, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.8 MB in 309 requests

    2.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.8 MB in 309 requests on a phone: scripts 1.5 MB (126), other files 794 KiB (135) and images 266 KiB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.78 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.78 g of CO₂e: 93.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • 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

5 to fixGoogle 9394
  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 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 (10 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 22 links without text

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

  • 9 form fields without a label

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

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 54 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 51 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: 51 passed and 4 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10096
  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: sameAs is an empty list”.

  • 100 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 100 pages on sparesplc.com and 13 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 159 characters

    Your meta description is 159 characters: “Industrial automation spare parts: PLCs, drives, HMIs and modules from Siemens, Allen-Bradley, ABB, Schneider and more.…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Products for industrial, energy, marine and military automation”.

  • Title: 46 characters

    Your title is a healthy 46 characters: “Spares PLC | Industrial Automation Spare Parts”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://us.sparesplc.com/.

  • 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://us.sparesplc.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

3 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 (1,262 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://us.sparesplc.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix68
  • 1 page without a title

    https://us.sparesplc.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    https://us.sparesplc.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 4 pages without a meta description

    https://us.sparesplc.com/customer_authentication/redirect, https://us.sparesplc.com/pages/marcas, https://us.sparesplc.com/pages/contact and https://us.sparesplc.com/collections/bosch-rexroth have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 3 pages without an H1

    https://us.sparesplc.com/customer_authentication/redirect, https://us.sparesplc.com/pages/contact and https://us.sparesplc.com/pages/garantia have 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 48 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 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.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    36 of 39 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix79
  • 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.

  • A 14-field form

    Your longest form asks for 14 fields (2 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

  • About 771 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 771 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • 12 calls to action

    The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “Urgent quote”, “Can't find your part number? Request it” and “Request an urgent quote”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 customer or partner logos, a star rating and “more than 3,000 brands”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 2 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

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 10 cookies set on arrival

    10

    Opening the homepage sets 10 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.

  • 20 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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 sparesplc.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 4 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Eaze Button · Inbox · Propel Replays · trustpilot.com

Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
Bootstrap
E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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