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aon.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 23 October 202645 issues · 106 checks
This review found 45 issues worth fixing on aon.com, 15 of them high impact, across 106 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
65DClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideShow as table
| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 4.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 4.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 157 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 155 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 156 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 152 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 151 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 166 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 176 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 242 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 303 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 328 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 341 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 334 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 312 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 293 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 291 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 308 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 326 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 338 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 339 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 327 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 327 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.2 s
1.6 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.7 s
3.1 s
aon.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
9.9 s · 2.0 MB81 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.0 MB).
Render-blocking requests
6.1 s5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 6.1 s.
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.7 s · 1.6 MBAbout 1.6 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 2.4 s
2.4 sGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 2.4 s of main-thread work and 2.1 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.
Mobile performance score: 25
25/100Your mobile performance score is 25 (desktop: 52). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 7.2 s
A phone's processor spends 7.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Brightcove and Facebook and others), adding 3.0 MB and 3.1 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
490 ms · 106 KiBAbout 106 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 490 ms faster on a phone.
Minify JavaScript
300 ms · 33 KiB33 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Brightcove adds 229 ms
229 msBrightcove costs a phone 229 ms of main-thread work and 308 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 258 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
2,217 HTML elements
The page has 2,217 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 44 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 44 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
110 KiB1 image could be 110 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 52 but mobile only 25. 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: 84 ms
84 msYour server sent the HTML in 84 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
First Contentful Paint: 8.2 s
8.2 sThe first text or image appears after 8.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 16.5 s
16.5 sYour largest element takes 16.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “You will see this message only once: This website stores co…”.
Time to Interactive: 35.9 s
35.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 35.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 12.3 s
12.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 12.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 2.8 s
2.8 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 2.8 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user LCP: 3.0 s
3.0 sReal visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 204 ms
204 msReal visitors wait 204 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 110% slower for real visitors
+110%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 157 ms to 327 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 59% slower for real visitors
+59%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.9 s to 4.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 2.9 s
2.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
2 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.01
0.01For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.076
0.076The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.076, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.5 MB in 224 requests
5.5 MBYour homepage downloads 5.5 MB in 224 requests on a phone: scripts 4.0 MB (75), fonts 787 KiB (6) and images 262 KiB (47). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image far larger than shown
43 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example image.jpg at 1,280 px wide, shown at 342 px. Resized copies would save about 43 KiB.
1 image in older formats
1 image (120 KiB) is 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 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit
1.56 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.56 g of CO₂e: 186.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)
Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
17 form fields without a label
17 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h4, h4 → h6 and h4 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 27 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
48 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 7 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (22 characters)
Your title is only 22 characters: “Better Decisions | Aon”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
Meta description is short (43 characters)
Your meta description is only 43 characters: “Aon is in the business of better decisions.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
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.
120 internal links, 13 external
The homepage links to 120 pages on aon.com and 13 external pages.
4 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Home”.
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.aon.com/sitemap-master.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
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 (2,104 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 61 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
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://s.ml-attr.com/getuid?https%3a%2f%2fattr.ml-api.io%2f%3fdomain%3daon.com%26pId%3d%24UID.
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Mixed content”).
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
27 of 27 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 180 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (aon.com).
Valid certificate (148 days left)
The certificate from DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 verifies for aon.com and is valid for another 148 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
http:// redirects to https
http://aon.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 49 links work
All 49 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 9 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.
security.txt published
A security.txt file tells researchers how to report a problem with your site.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
aon.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.
DNSSEC is off
aon.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 31 years old
31 yearsaon.com was registered in Feb 1995 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Feb 2027
aon.com is registered until Feb 2027.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
A 12-field form
Your longest form asks for 12 fields (11 required). Every extra field lowers completion.
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 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 774 words of copy
The homepage carries about 774 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: “Learn More”.
14 calls to action
The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Learn More” and “Subscribe”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Email authentication
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.aon.net include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._ehlo.%{d}._spf.vali.email -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
9 trackers load before any consent
9Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar, LinkedIn Insight and Meta Pixel and 4 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
19 cookies set on arrival
19Opening the homepage sets 19 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
40 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 40 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Company
- Employees
- 65,000
- Founded
- 1982
- Headquarters
- London
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