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thehive.ai website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202625 issues · 78 checks
This review found 25 issues worth fixing on thehive.ai, 8 of them high impact, across 78 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
87BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 4.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 5.0 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 5.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 309 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 316 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 316 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 309 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 306 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 293 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 283 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 279 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 275 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 273 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 284 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 289 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 287 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 290 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 290 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 287 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 286 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 284 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 294 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 329 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 350 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 357 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 364 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 372 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 369 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
1.1 s1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 74
74/100Your mobile performance score is 74 (desktop: 100). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
750 ms · 139 KiBAbout 139 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
350 ms · 22 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 22 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 15 KiB2 images could be 15 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
1 third-party service on the page
1 third-party service load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager), adding 162 KiB and 52 ms of main-thread time.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 50 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
13 KiBAbout 13 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 100 but mobile only 74. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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Main-thread work: 0.4 s
A phone's processor spends 0.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 242 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 4 ms
4 msYour server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.7 s
6.7 sYour largest element takes 6.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “mobile-home-banner-poster”.
Largest content (LCP) got 47% slower for real visitors
+47%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.3 s to 5.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Time to Interactive: 6.7 s
6.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 6.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 4.6 s
4.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
4 images without width and height
4 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 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 309 ms to 369 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 137 ms
137 msReal visitors wait 137 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.
Real-user FCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 624 ms
624 msReal visitors wait 624 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit
0.31 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.31 g of CO₂e: 37.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.1 MB in 28 requests
1.1 MBYour homepage downloads 1.1 MB in 28 requests on a phone: scripts 528 KiB (12), images 223 KiB (4) and other files 207 KiB (4). That is a lean page.
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
7 text elements with low contrast
7 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.
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.
1 tap target too small
1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
91 images without alt text
91 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (28 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 28 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (17 elements)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 17 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h4 → h6 and h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
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38 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 38 passed and 9 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
3 H1 headlines
There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Hive”, “AI to understand content” and “AI to understand, search, and generate content”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
35 internal links, 17 external
The homepage links to 35 pages on thehive.ai and 17 external pages.
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Meta description: 154 characters
Your meta description is 154 characters: “Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understan…”.
Title: 53 characters
Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://thehive.ai/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: 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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://thehive.ai/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
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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 (883 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://thehive.ai/llms.txt (12 KiB, 56 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage 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.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
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
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://thehive.ai/_next/static/videos/homeBanner-f1038cc2dce98437e5fa89fc1d1c703e.mp4.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
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Tap targets are thumb-sized
22 of 26 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. 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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 749 words of copy
The homepage carries about 749 words of visible text.
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Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Pricing Back” and “Demo Back”.
16 calls to action
The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Try Hive” and “Contact Sales”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.
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.
1 other company contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 1 host 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 thehive.ai, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Next.js
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager | FullStory
- Hosting
- Cstl
Hiring
- Hiring
- 9 open roles
- Teams
- Sales Development Representatives (3), Merchant Care (2), Fulfilment Operations (1), Growth (1)
- Job board
- greenhouse
- Careers page
- deploy.com/careers (opens in a new tab)
Company
- Employees
- 122
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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