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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202634 issues · 80 checks

This review found 34 issues worth fixing on zignallabs.com, 13 of them high impact, across 80 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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 zignallabs.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. zignallabs.com at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. zignallabs.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  3. zignallabs.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  4. zignallabs.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  5. zignallabs.com at 3.7 s3.7 s
  6. zignallabs.com at 4.4 s4.4 s
  7. zignallabs.com at 5.2 s5.2 s
  8. zignallabs.com at 5.9 s5.9 s

Speed

8 to fix41
  • Improve image delivery

    37.1 s · 6.7 MB

    9 images could be 6.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 37.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 41

    41/100

    Your mobile performance score is 41 (desktop: 68). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 5.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 5.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, digitalreachagency.com and storyblok.com and others), adding 18.3 MB and 690 ms of main-thread time.

  • storyblok.com adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    storyblok.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 18.0 MB 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 Tag Manager adds 687 ms

    687 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 687 ms of main-thread work and 316 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.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 612 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    355 KiB

    About 355 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    22 KiB

    About 22 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    16 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 16 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 68 but mobile only 41. 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: 46 ms

    46 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 46 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 37.7 s

    37.7 s

    Your largest element takes 37.7 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: 37.7 s

    37.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 37.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.4 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Speed Index: 5.8 s

    5.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 4 images without width and height

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

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  • 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: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • 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: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

4 to fix25
  • Page weight: 19.2 MB in 57 requests

    19.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 19.2 MB in 57 requests on a phone: media 10.9 MB (2), images 7.0 MB (26) and scripts 868 KiB (13). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 5 images over 500 KB

    5 images weigh 6.2 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 6 images far larger than shown

    6.5 MB

    6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 1.png at 1,563 px wide, shown at 60 px. Resized copies would save about 6.5 MB.

  • 10 images in older formats

    10 images (6.8 MB) 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.

  • 2 images below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (91 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 5.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    5.45 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 5.45 g of CO₂e: 653.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 8090
  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (1 element)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 17 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 34 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 40 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 34 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 9282
  • No structured data

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

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Meta description is long (180 characters)

    Your meta description is 180 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 3 links with vague text

    3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 29 internal links, 3 external

    The homepage links to 29 pages on zignallabs.com and 3 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Agentic Intelligence for National Security”.

  • Title: 56 characters

    Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “Agentic Intelligence for National Security | Zignal Labs”.

  • 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.zignallabs.com/sitemap-index.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 https://zignallabs.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.

2 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 (177 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 4 pages with very little text

    https://zignallabs.com/request-a-demo, https://zignallabs.com/company, https://zignallabs.com/company/news and https://zignallabs.com/company/contact-us 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.

  • 10 internal pages checked

    We fetched 10 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 10 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 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 to fixGoogle 8887
  • 2 small tap targets

    2 of 10 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “The Content Security Policy directive 'report-uri' is ignored when delivered via a <meta> element.”.

  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix83
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 9 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • Only about 153 words

    The homepage has only about 153 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.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

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

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Request a Demo”, “Contact” and “Learn More”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: HubSpot.

  • Direct contact links

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and HubSpot (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.

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 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.

  • 7 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 7 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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