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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202624 issues · 72 checks

This review found 24 issues worth fixing on baupost.com, 3 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

Site score

86B

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Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.4 s550 msJun 20Oct 24651 ms
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Jun 20, 20261.2 s
Jun 27, 20261.2 s
Jul 4, 20261.2 s
Jul 11, 20261.2 s
Jul 18, 20261.3 s
Jul 25, 20261.2 s
Aug 1, 20261.1 s
Aug 8, 2026943 ms
Aug 15, 2026872 ms
Aug 22, 2026896 ms
Aug 29, 2026943 ms
Sep 5, 2026868 ms
Sep 12, 2026874 ms
Sep 19, 2026956 ms
Sep 26, 20261.0 s
Oct 3, 20261.0 s
Oct 10, 20261.0 s
Oct 17, 20261.1 s
Oct 24, 2026651 ms
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
87 ms70 msJun 20Aug 2972 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Jun 20, 202680 ms
Jun 27, 202680 ms
Jul 4, 202679 ms
Jul 11, 202680 ms
Jul 18, 202685 ms
Aug 29, 202672 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

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Full-page screenshot of baupost.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. baupost.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. baupost.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. baupost.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. baupost.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. baupost.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. baupost.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. baupost.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  8. baupost.com at 3.1 s3.1 s

Speed

2 to fix97

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.4 s

    15 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    650 ms · 858 KiB

    20 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (858 KiB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    120 ms · 26 KiB

    About 26 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 120 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify JavaScript

    120 ms · 13 KiB

    13 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Improve image delivery

    86 KiB

    2 images could be 86 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Document request latency

    6 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    6 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 6 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

3 checks passed

  • Mobile performance score: 97

    97/100

    Your mobile performance score is 97. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 0.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 33 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

2 to fix100

  • Speed Index: 4.5 s

    4.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.5 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) held steady for real visitors

    -2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 80 ms to 72 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

11 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: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors wait 0.9 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: 0.7 s

    0.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 570 ms

    570 ms

    Real visitors wait 570 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 27% faster for real visitors

    -27%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 0.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.5 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Your largest element renders in 1.5 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Long-term, value-oriented investing on behalf of families, …”.

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

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

  • Time to Interactive: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    The page is fully interactive after 1.5 s.

Images and page weight

100

  • About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.24 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.24 g of CO₂e: 28.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed

  • Page weight: 868 KiB in 21 requests

    868 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 868 KiB in 21 requests on a phone: images 650 KiB (2), scripts 96 KiB (5) and fonts 78 KiB (3). That is a lean page.

  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 10096

  • Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)

    Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 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.

2 checks passed

  • Every image has alt text

    All 1 image in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 31 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 34 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 31 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

8 to fixGoogle 10067

  • Title is short (24 characters)

    Your title is only 24 characters: “Home : The Baupost Group”. 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.

  • 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 (175 characters)

    Your meta description is 175 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.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://www.baupost.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • No robots.txt

    There is no robots.txt at baupost.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 9 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 9 pages on baupost.com and 0 external pages.

1 checks passed

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Long-term, value-oriented investing on behalf of families, foundations, endowments, and other like-minded institutions”.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83

  • 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 checks passed

  • AI answer engines may read the site

    There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.

Other pages

1 to fix95

  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /Terms and /Privacy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page with very little text

    /Team has 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.

  • 7 internal pages checked

    We fetched 7 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed

  • Linked pages load

    All 7 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • 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 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 10087

  • 5 small tap targets

    5 of 5 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: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

1 checks passed

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

5 to fix50

  • 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.

  • No analytics detected

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

  • 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.

  • Only about 91 words

    The homepage has only about 91 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

2 checks passed

  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (0 fields at most) is right on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (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 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 baupost.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Hosting
Azure

Company

Founded
1982
Headquarters
Boston

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