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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 19 October 202621 issues · 74 checks
This review found 21 issues worth fixing on west-mark.com, 6 of them high impact, across 74 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
78C- #44,705 of 89,086 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #27,161 of 46,432 online storesbeats 36%
- #698 of 2,166 WooCommerce storesbeats 62%
Closest competitors among WooCommerce stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.6 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 89 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 93 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 95 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
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 42 KiB3 images could be 42 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.
Render-blocking requests
150 ms1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.
Reduce unused CSS
74 KiBAbout 74 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 93
93/100Your mobile performance score is 93 (desktop: 100). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.2 s
A phone's processor spends 0.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 67 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 23 ms
23 msYour server sent the HTML in 23 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 TTFB: 2.4 s
2.4 sReal visitors wait 2.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Real-user LCP: 2.7 s
2.7 sReal visitors wait 2.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.11
0.11For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.11 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 2.6 s
2.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s
2.3 sThe first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.8 s
2.8 sYour largest element takes 2.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Unmatched Quality for Commercial, OEM & Government Establis…”.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 95 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 checks passed
Real-user INP: 95 ms
95 msReal visitors wait 95 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 2.9 s
2.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.9 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Time to Interactive: 2.8 s
2.8 sThe page is fully interactive after 2.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.004
0.004The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.004, 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 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.55 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.55 g of CO₂e: 65.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 1.9 MB in 11 requests
1.9 MBYour homepage downloads 1.9 MB in 11 requests on a phone: media 1.5 MB (1), fonts 157 KiB (3) and images 142 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
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.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (6 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 6 elements on the page fail 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.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
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.
14 links without text
14 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 5 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
27 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 33 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 27 passed and 6 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.
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.
65 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 65 pages on west-mark.com and 3 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 155 characters
Your meta description is 155 characters: “Custom tank trailers, tank trucks & fire apparatus built in Atwater, CA since 1967. ISO 9001, ASME & NFPA certified. Se…”.
Title: 57 characters
Your title is a healthy 57 characters: “Custom Tank Trailers, Trucks & Fire Apparatus | West-Mark”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.west-mark.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, LocalBusiness, Organization, 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 and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.west-mark.com/video-sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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 /llms.txt (195 KiB, 1,007 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 pages without a meta description
/products, /agricultural-tank-trailers, /arctic-equipment, /construction, /fire-suppression-trailers and /milk-tanker-trailers and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages without an H1
/products and /agricultural-tank-trailers have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
3 pages slow to respond
/arctic-equipment, /gsa and /sourcewell took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 41 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 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.
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 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 social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Only about 108 words
The homepage has only about 108 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 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.
6 checks passed
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Contact Us” and “Quote Request”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics and HubSpot.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Privacy and tracking
12 cookies set on arrival
12Opening the homepage sets 12 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.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 west-mark.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2023.
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- React
- E-commerce
- WooCommerce
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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