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vacuumlabs.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202638 issues · 88 checks
This review found 38 issues worth fixing on vacuumlabs.com, 14 of them high impact, across 88 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
77CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.7 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 5.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 140 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 155 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 160 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 172 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 174 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 175 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 189 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 184 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 191 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 223 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 265 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 345 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 360 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 338 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 300 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 219 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 208 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 210 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 217 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
1.4 s
2.9 s
4.3 s
5.7 s
7.1 s
8.6 s
10.0 s
11.4 s
Speed
Render-blocking requests
3.4 s53 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 35
35/100Your mobile performance score is 35 (desktop: 80). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 8.9 s
A phone's processor spends 8.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,793 HTML elements
The page has 3,793 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Reduce unused JavaScript
900 ms · 833 KiBAbout 833 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, WordPress and Facebook and others), adding 1.1 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.
Minify JavaScript
450 ms · 286 KiB286 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 310 KiB10 images could be 310 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 389 ms
389 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 389 ms of main-thread work and 324 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 CSS
300 ms · 26 KiBAbout 26 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
WordPress adds 283 ms
283 msWordPress costs a phone 283 ms of main-thread work and 407 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 308 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
225 KiB12 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (225 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 28 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 28 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Minify CSS
100 ms · 10 KiB10 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 80 but mobile only 35. 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 14 ms
14 msYour server sent the HTML in 14 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.
Time to Interactive: 21.5 s
21.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 21.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.9 s
7.9 sYour largest element takes 7.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
First Contentful Paint: 5.9 s
5.9 sThe first text or image appears after 5.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 9.4 s
9.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.0 s
1.0 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 45% slower for real visitors
+45%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 140 ms to 217 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 1.8 s
1.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 15% slower for real visitors
+15%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 3.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user LCP: 2.1 s
2.1 sReal visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 557 ms
557 msReal visitors wait 557 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 12.7 MB in 217 requests
12.7 MBYour homepage downloads 12.7 MB in 217 requests on a phone: media 8.7 MB (1), scripts 1.8 MB (57) and images 1.7 MB (80). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
vl-homepage-video-layer-768x453.webp is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
2 images below the first screen load straight away
2 images further down the page (58 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 3.6 g of CO₂ per visit
3.60 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.60 g of CO₂e: 431.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
13 text elements with low contrast
13 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (18 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 18 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (3 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Banner 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 banner landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
The skip-link target should exist and be focusable (1 element)
The skip-link target should exist and be focusable: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
18 links without text
18 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 145 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
39 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 39 passed and 10 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
149 internal links, 13 external
The homepage links to 149 pages on vacuumlabs.com and 13 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 137 characters
Your meta description is 137 characters: “Technology partner to banks, wealth managers and fintechs. Vacuumlabs designs and builds banking, wealth, AI and digita…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “The tech partner banks need”.
Title: 45 characters
Your title is a healthy 45 characters: “The Engine Behind Modern Finance - Vacuumlabs”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://vacuumlabs.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Article, ImageObject, 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://vacuumlabs.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing url, 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 (1,858 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://vacuumlabs.com/llms.txt (47 KiB, 155 links, though it should open with a “# Title” line), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 42 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
10 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 10 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 10 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 small tap targets
2 of 6 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
6 JavaScript errors while loading
6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 6 trust badges. 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 1,258 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,258 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Talk to an expert” and “Contact us”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
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). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 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.
12 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 12 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 vacuumlabs.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
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- WordPress
- Framework
- React
- Analytics
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