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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 24 October 202617 issues · 83 checks

This review found 17 issues worth fixing on xrcventures.com, 4 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: 1 button without a name. 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. xrcventures.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. xrcventures.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. xrcventures.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  4. xrcventures.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  5. xrcventures.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  6. xrcventures.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  7. xrcventures.com at 4.0 s4.0 s
  8. xrcventures.com at 4.6 s4.6 s

xrcventures.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

4 to fix65
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    910 ms · 138 KiB

    About 138 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 910 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 65

    65/100

    Your mobile performance score is 65 (desktop: 99). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

    1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 750 ms.

  • Improve image delivery

    282 KiB

    14 images could be 282 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    190 KiB

    15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (190 KiB).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 12 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and xrcnetwork.com and others), adding 488 KiB and 113 ms of main-thread time.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 68 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 99 but mobile only 65. 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 0.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 342 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix70
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Your largest element takes 6.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Investing in the future of retail & commerce.”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.7 s

    5.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 6.6 s

    6.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 6.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

    1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 23 ms

    23 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 23 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.27 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.27 g of CO₂e: 32.5 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: 977 KiB in 50 requests

    977 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 977 KiB in 50 requests on a phone: scripts 496 KiB (22), images 317 KiB (17) and fonts 124 KiB (3). 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

2 to fixGoogle 9095
  • 1 button without a name

    1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 3 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 36 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 38 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 36 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10095
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • 19 internal links, 8 external

    The homepage links to 19 pages on xrcventures.com and 8 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 129 characters

    Your meta description is 129 characters: “XRC Ventures is a pre-seed to Series A venture capital firm investing in the future of retail, consumer, and commerce t…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Investing in the future of retail & commerce.”.

  • Title: 48 characters

    Your title is a healthy 48 characters: “XRC Ventures | Retail & Commerce Venture Capital”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.xrcventures.com/.

  • 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.xrcventures.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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.

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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 (348 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 2 pages with very little text

    /contact and /apply have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 13 internal pages checked

    We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 13 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 13 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 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
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  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

8 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (xrcventures.com).

  • Valid certificate (88 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for xrcventures.com and is valid for another 88 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://xrcventures.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 22 links work

    All 22 links checked from your homepage (14 internal, 8 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    xrcventures.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

3 checks passed
  • Domain is 3 years old

    3 years

    xrcventures.com was registered in Dec 2022 through Cloudflare, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only globalsign.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and sectigo.com to issue certificates for xrcventures.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • Registered until Dec 2028

    xrcventures.com is registered until Dec 2028.

Content and conversion

2 to fix80
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks. 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 339 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 339 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Apply”.

  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Get in Touch”, “Apply” and “Contact Us”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

Email authentication

85
  • Email authentication score: 85/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:48585877.spf05.hubspotemail.net ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google” and “k2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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

    2

    Opening 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.

  • 3 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

CMS
Squarespace
Framework
Next.js
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Vercel

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