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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202648 issues · 118 checks
This review found 48 issues worth fixing on abta.org, 16 of them high impact, across 118 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
76C- #48,425 of 80,918 reviewed websitesbeats 35%
- #27,379 of 39,887 online storesbeats 27%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.8 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 144 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 136 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 133 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 129 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 134 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 142 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 135 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 135 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 131 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
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
6.8 s · 3.1 MBAbout 3.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.8 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
3.8 s73 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.8 s.
classy.org adds 1.8 s
1.8 sclassy.org costs a phone 1.8 s of main-thread work and 1.2 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Google CDN adds 1.2 s
1.2 sGoogle CDN costs a phone 1.2 s of main-thread work and 1.8 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. 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 1.2 s
1.2 sGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 1.2 s of main-thread work and 1.1 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Main-thread work: 12.9 s
A phone's processor spends 12.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 7.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Mobile performance score: 26
26/100Your mobile performance score is 26 (desktop: 55). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (classy.org, Google Tag Manager and Google CDN and others), adding 5.8 MB and 5.6 s of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
850 ms · 1.1 MB13 images could be 1.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 850 ms faster on a phone.
YouTube adds 666 ms
666 msYouTube costs a phone 666 ms of main-thread work and 992 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.
Reduce unused CSS
480 ms · 242 KiBAbout 242 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 480 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
643 KiB14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (643 KiB).
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 602 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Stripe adds 285 ms
285 msStripe costs a phone 285 ms of main-thread work and 287 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.
2,025 HTML elements
The page has 2,025 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Minify CSS
180 ms · 12 KiB12 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 28 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 28 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 55 but mobile only 26. 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: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 23.9 s
23.9 sYour largest element takes 23.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Sign up for our bi-monthly email to get the latest news on …”.
Time to Interactive: 52.4 s
52.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 52.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 14.6 s
14.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 14.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 3.5 s
3.5 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 3.5 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 5.8 s
5.8 sThe first text or image appears after 5.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 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) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 144 ms to 131 ms 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: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 131 ms
131 msReal visitors wait 131 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.03
0.03For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 690 ms
690 msReal visitors wait 690 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 36% faster for real visitors
-36%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 1.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 10.0 MB in 307 requests
10.0 MBYour homepage downloads 10.0 MB in 307 requests on a phone: scripts 6.6 MB (134), images 1.3 MB (25) and other files 1.1 MB (49). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
MM-3-2024.png is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
12 images below the first screen load straight away
12 images further down the page (849 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
10 images in older formats
10 images (527 KiB) 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.
About 2.8 g of CO₂ per visit
2.84 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.84 g of CO₂e: 341.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (1 element)
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
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.
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.
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (2 elements)
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
4 links without text
4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 form fields without a label
2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
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 18 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
50 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 59 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 9 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Meta description is long (438 characters)
Your meta description is 438 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found ((untyped), ImageObject, Organization and Person) but with 1 problem, for example “block has no @type”.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
12 links with vague text
12 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
4 links crawlers can't follow
4 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
386 internal links, 21 external
The homepage links to 386 pages on abta.org and 21 external pages.
5 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Home”.
Title: 39 characters
Your title is a healthy 39 characters: “Home - American Brain Tumor Association”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.abta.org/.
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.abta.org/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,350 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 88 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 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.
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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
15 small tap targets
15 of 29 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
6 third-party cookies
6 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
2 checks passed
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
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example http://www.twitter.com/theabta (520).
No HSTS header
No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
No clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
No X-Content-Type-Options
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example http://www.facebook.com/theabta.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
4 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (abta.org).
Valid certificate (34 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for abta.org and is valid for another 34 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://abta.org redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
abta.org 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.
DNSSEC is off
abta.org'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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 30 years old
30 yearsabta.org was registered in Sep 1996 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Sep 2027
abta.org is registered until Sep 2027.
Content and conversion
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 454 words of copy
The homepage carries about 454 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: “Subscribe!”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Register Now” and “Learn more about brain tumors”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
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.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be abta.org is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:aspmx.pardot.com include:_spf.intacct.com include:relay.mailchanne…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “k2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (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.
20 cookies set on arrival
20Opening the homepage sets 20 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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.
33 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 33 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2013.
- It runs WordPress 1.14.2; the current release is 7.1.3.
- 3 plugins are behind their latest release.buy-now-button-for-woocommerce 1.0 → 1.0.1 · essential-addons-for-elementor-lite 6.8.5 → 6.8.6 · svg-support 2.5.9 → 2.6.1
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 1.14.2
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- WooCommerce
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Company
- Founded
- 1973
- Headquarters
- Chicago
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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