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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 202623 issues · 80 checks

This review found 23 issues worth fixing on walzcraft.com, 10 of them high impact, across 80 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.0 s1.7 sMay 2Oct 172.0 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20261.7 s
May 9, 20261.8 s
May 16, 20261.8 s
May 23, 20261.8 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.9 s
Jun 13, 20261.9 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20261.9 s
Jul 11, 20261.9 s
Jul 18, 20261.7 s
Jul 25, 20261.7 s
Aug 1, 20261.7 s
Aug 8, 20261.7 s
Aug 15, 20261.8 s
Aug 22, 20261.9 s
Aug 29, 20262.0 s
Sep 5, 20261.9 s
Sep 12, 20261.9 s
Sep 19, 20261.8 s
Sep 26, 20261.8 s
Oct 3, 20261.8 s
Oct 10, 20261.8 s
Oct 17, 20262.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
81 ms64 msMay 2Oct 1766 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 202671 ms
May 9, 202671 ms
May 16, 202672 ms
May 23, 202671 ms
May 30, 202673 ms
Jun 6, 202675 ms
Jun 13, 202678 ms
Jun 20, 202679 ms
Jun 27, 202675 ms
Jul 4, 202673 ms
Jul 11, 202673 ms
Jul 18, 202671 ms
Jul 25, 202672 ms
Aug 1, 202672 ms
Aug 8, 202672 ms
Aug 15, 202675 ms
Aug 22, 202678 ms
Aug 29, 202678 ms
Sep 5, 202673 ms
Sep 12, 202671 ms
Sep 19, 202670 ms
Sep 26, 202669 ms
Oct 3, 202669 ms
Oct 10, 202666 ms
Oct 17, 202666 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

Full-page screenshot of walzcraft.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. walzcraft.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. walzcraft.com at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. walzcraft.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  4. walzcraft.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  5. walzcraft.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  6. walzcraft.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  7. walzcraft.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  8. walzcraft.com at 3.9 s3.9 s

Speed

6 to fix60
  • Render-blocking requests

    3.3 s

    33 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.3 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.2 s · 240 KiB

    About 240 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    1.1 s · 142 KiB

    About 142 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 60

    60/100

    Your mobile performance score is 60 (desktop: 69). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    759 KiB

    13 images could be 759 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 266 ms

    266 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 266 ms of main-thread work and 458 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.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, WordPress Site Stats and Fastest Forward and others), adding 654 KiB and 279 ms of main-thread time.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 104 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    100 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

  • 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

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Minify JavaScript

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 736 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 32 ms

    32 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 32 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 21.2 s

    21.2 s

    Your largest element takes 21.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 22.1 s

    22.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 22.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.4 s

    5.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 71 ms to 66 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

8 checks passed
  • 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: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors wait 2.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 63 ms

    63 ms

    Real visitors wait 63 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 693 ms

    693 ms

    Real visitors wait 693 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 30 ms

    30 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 30 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 5.6 MB in 115 requests

    5.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.6 MB in 115 requests on a phone: images 4.4 MB (29), scripts 670 KiB (41) and fonts 254 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 8 images in older formats

    8 images (458 KiB) 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 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.60 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.60 g of CO₂e: 192.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 11 text elements with low contrast

    11 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 checks passed
  • 40 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9291
  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: url points at a different host (https://walzcraft.mystagingwebsite.com/)”.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 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.

  • 227 internal links, 10 external

    The homepage links to 227 pages on walzcraft.com and 10 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 156 characters

    Your meta description is 156 characters: “WalzCraft manufactures Custom Cabinet Doors, Drawer Boxes, Cabinet Components, and Cabinet Refacing Products for Custom…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Home”.

  • Title: 60 characters

    Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “WalzCraft | Custom Cabinet Doors & Cabinet Refacing Products”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://walzcraft.com/.

  • 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://walzcraft.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://walzcraft.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

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: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (901 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://walzcraft.com/products has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 111 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 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.

  • 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 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 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 404 ()”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    17 of 19 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix88
  • 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: 3 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 309 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 309 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “ORDER FORMS” and “CONTACT US”.

  • 17 calls to action

    The homepage has 17 calls to action, for example “Order Forms”, “Contact Us” and “Web Order Manager”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

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.

  • 14 cookies set on arrival

    14

    Opening the homepage sets 14 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.

  • 10 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

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