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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202627 issues · 86 checks

This review found 27 issues worth fixing on 4cgroup.com, 11 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
2.2 s909 msMay 23Nov 71.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.4 s
May 30, 20261.4 s
Jun 6, 20261.5 s
Jun 13, 20261.5 s
Jun 20, 20261.5 s
Jun 27, 20261.4 s
Jul 4, 20261.6 s
Jul 11, 20261.3 s
Jul 18, 20261.1 s
Jul 25, 20261.1 s
Aug 1, 20261.1 s
Aug 8, 20261.1 s
Aug 15, 20261.1 s
Aug 22, 20261.2 s
Aug 29, 20261.2 s
Oct 3, 20261.9 s
Oct 10, 20262.1 s
Oct 17, 20261.7 s
Oct 24, 20261.6 s
Oct 31, 20261.5 s
Nov 7, 20261.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
94 ms69 msMay 23Nov 791 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 202681 ms
May 30, 202681 ms
Jun 6, 202676 ms
Jun 13, 202679 ms
Jul 18, 202680 ms
Jul 25, 202681 ms
Aug 1, 202685 ms
Aug 8, 202685 ms
Aug 15, 202684 ms
Aug 22, 202687 ms
Oct 3, 202672 ms
Oct 10, 202679 ms
Oct 17, 202679 ms
Oct 24, 202682 ms
Oct 31, 202687 ms
Nov 7, 202691 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 4cgroup.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. 4cgroup.com at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. 4cgroup.com at 1.4 s1.4 s
  3. 4cgroup.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  4. 4cgroup.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  5. 4cgroup.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  6. 4cgroup.com at 4.1 s4.1 s
  7. 4cgroup.com at 4.7 s4.7 s
  8. 4cgroup.com at 5.4 s5.4 s

Speed

7 to fix60
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    4.7 s · 5.0 MB

    34 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (5.0 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    6.0 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 6.0 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    1.5 s · 312 KiB

    About 312 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    250 ms · 1.3 MB

    8 images could be 1.3 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 60

    60/100

    Your mobile performance score is 60. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Font display

    650 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 650 ms).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    300 ms · 82 KiB

    About 82 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 48 KiB

    48 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 89 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 1 third-party service on the page

    1 third-party service load with your homepage (YouTube), adding 65 KiB and 0 ms of main-thread time.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 0.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 83 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 225 ms

    225 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 225 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 39.8 s

    39.8 s

    Your largest element takes 39.8 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: 39.8 s

    39.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 39.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.9 s

    5.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.9 s

    5.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 81 ms to 91 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.5 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: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 91 ms

    91 ms

    Real visitors wait 91 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.10

    0.10

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.10 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 399 ms

    399 ms

    Real visitors wait 399 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.027

    0.027

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.027, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

4 to fix35
  • Page weight: 13.8 MB in 36 requests

    13.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 13.8 MB in 36 requests on a phone: images 8.8 MB (20), media 3.7 MB (1) and scripts 604 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images over 500 KB

    3 images weigh 6.0 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (6.1 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.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    43 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example 36_i91721920x500_41_217.jpg at 1,920 px wide, shown at 354 px. Resized copies would save about 43 KiB.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (62 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 3.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.90 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.90 g of CO₂e: 468.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8492
  • 23 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (3 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 7 form fields without a label

    7 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 5 links without text

    5 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 19 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 45 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 6 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 92100
  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 141 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 141 pages on 4cgroup.com and 7 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 87 characters

    Your meta description is 87 characters: “4C GROUP advises CxOs on long-term competitiveness, business models and transformation.”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Management consulting for CxOs”.

  • Title: 44 characters

    Your title is a healthy 44 characters: “Management consulting for CxOs - 4C GROUP AG”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.4cgroup.com/en/home.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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.4cgroup.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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: 5 of 6 facts

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,114 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (9 KiB, 0 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix93
  • 2 pages share a title

    / and /en/home all use the title “Management consulting for CxOs - 4C GROUP AG”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 57 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 10087
  • 2 small tap targets

    2 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 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”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

1 checks passed
  • 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.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • 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 988 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 988 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: “Contact us”.

  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact us” and “Start a conversation →”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (6 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 4 trust badges and “600+ Clients”.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 1 other company contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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 4cgroup.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Hosting
IONOS

Hiring

Hiring
10 open roles
Job board
careers page

Company

Headquarters
Munich

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