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tristar.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202636 issues · 70 checks
This review found 36 issues worth fixing on tristar.com, 16 of them high impact, across 70 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
70CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 5.2 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 5.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 4.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 5.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 6.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2026 | 176 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 167 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 172 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 175 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.6 s
1.3 s
1.9 s
2.5 s
3.2 s
3.8 s
4.4 s
5.1 s
Speed
Main-thread work: 4.3 s
A phone's processor spends 4.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.4 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 55
55/100Your mobile performance score is 55. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
150 ms · 606 KiBAbout 606 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 548 ms
548 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 548 ms of main-thread work and 542 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.
Google CDN adds 460 ms
460 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 460 ms of main-thread work and 736 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.
2,883 HTML elements
The page has 2,883 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Reduce unused CSS
278 KiBAbout 278 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Font display
200 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).
16 long tasks on the main thread
16 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 196 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Render-blocking requests
150 ms1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
27 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (27 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
10 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 10 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 132 ms
132 msYour server sent the HTML in 132 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: 6.0 s
6.0 sReal visitors wait 6.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 5.0 s
5.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 5.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 3.0 s
3.0 sReal visitors wait 3.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Time to Interactive: 17.4 s
17.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 17.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.0 s
8.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 923 ms
923 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 923 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.1 s
4.1 sYour largest element takes 4.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below. Most of its time is resource load delay (3.6 s).
First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s
2.6 sThe first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 176 ms to 175 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 14% slower for real visitors
+14%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.2 s to 6.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
2 checks passed
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
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.2 MB in 93 requests
3.2 MBYour homepage downloads 3.2 MB in 93 requests on a phone: scripts 1.5 MB (55), fonts 738 KiB (11) and other files 363 KiB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.89 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.89 g of CO₂e: 107.3 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
12 text elements with low contrast
12 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (9 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)
Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
29 form fields without a label
29 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 checks passed
42 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 4 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
21 links crawlers can't follow
21 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
Only 0 internal links
The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 156 characters
Your meta description is 156 characters: “Explore Tristar Solutions for CAD, PLM & ALM Software backed by expert training and Digital Thread & Automated Solution…”.
Title: 56 characters
Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “Tristar Solutions | Digital Thread & Automated Solutions”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.tristar.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, VideoObject, 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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.tristar.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Most text only appears after JavaScript runs
0%A phone browser shows 224 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 0. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.
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.
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.tristar.com/llms.txt (5 KiB, 32 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Best practices
3 small tap targets
3 of 6 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
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”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
No calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
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.
Only about 224 words
The homepage has only about 224 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
1 checks passed
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight (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.
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
13 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 13 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 tristar.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Ssasn2
Company
- Employees
- 77
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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