8vc.com website review

Not measured in this review.

• Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

  Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

• Real-user LCP: 2.5 s

  2.5 s

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

• Real-user FCP: 1.9 s

  1.9 s

  Real visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

• About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit

  0.30 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.30 g of CO₂e: 36.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• 4 text elements with low contrast

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

  Elements (3)

• Frames without titles

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

  Elements (1)

• 22 links without text

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

  Elements (3)

• Headings skip levels

  Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h1 → h3 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  View sourceElements (3)

• No structured data

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

• 2 H1 headlines

  There are 2 <h1> headlines (“The world isbroken, let's fix it.” and “In other news”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  View source

• No canonical URL

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

• 81 internal links, 55 external

  The homepage links to 81 pages on 8vc.com and 55 external pages.

• 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.

• 1 page without an H1

  /our-thesis has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 36 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 4 JavaScript errors while loading

  4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error: <svg> attribute width: Expected length, "currentWidth".”.

• No X-Content-Type-Options

  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

• 2 links through redirect chains

  2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://twitter.com/@8vc.

• No Referrer-Policy

  No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

• No Permissions-Policy

  No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

• No security.txt

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

• No CAA record

  8vc.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

• 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.

• 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 phone number on the homepage

  A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

• 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 opening hours

  The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

• 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.

• About 540 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 540 words of visible text.

• Email authentication score: 100/100

  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.

• 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). A consent tool (Termly) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

• 5 cookies set on arrival

  5

  Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

• 15 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.