becu.org 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 FCP: 3.4 s

  3.4 s

  Real visitors see the first content after 3.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

• Real-user TTFB: 1.8 s

  1.8 s

  Real visitors wait 1.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

• Real-user LCP: 3.8 s

  3.8 s

  Real visitors wait 3.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

• Largest content (LCP) got 32% slower for real visitors

  +32%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 3.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

  -3%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 168 ms to 161 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Page weight: 7.0 MB

  7.0 MB

  Your homepage downloads 7.0 MB on a phone, 4.0 MB of it images (58%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• 1 image over 500 KB

  Home_Join_Committed-to-Your-Financial-Well-Being.jpg weighs 1.3 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  Elements (1)

• 3 images far larger than shown

  1.1 MB

  3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Home_Join_Committed-to-Your-Financial-Well-Being.jpg at 1,920 px wide, shown at 358 px. Resized copies would save about 1.1 MB.

  Elements (3)

• 15 images in older formats

  15 images (3.5 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.

  Elements (5)

• 15 images below the first screen load straight away

  15 images further down the page (1.8 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  Elements (5)

• About 2.0 g of CO₂ per visit

  1.99 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.99 g of CO₂e: 238.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• 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.

  Elements (1)

• 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.

  Elements (1)

• 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.

  Elements (1)

• ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (7 elements)

  ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  Elements (3)

• Headings skip levels

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

  View sourceElements (1)

• 271 internal links, 26 external

  The homepage links to 271 pages on becu.org and 26 external pages.

• 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.

• 4 pages slow to respond

  /locations/find-locations, /everyday-banking/teen-checking, /everyday-banking/youth-banking and /everyday-banking/iras took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 136 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 1 broken image

  1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://nova.collect.igodigital.com/c2/7000878/update_item?payload=%5B%7B%22item_type%22%3A%22product%22%2C%22item%22%3A%2250%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22Home%20Page%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bec.

• 3 JavaScript errors while loading

  3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace')”.

• 1 broken external link

  1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://becu.cudlautosmart.com/ (500).

• 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 https://onlinebanking.becu.org/BECUBankingWeb/Login.aspx.

• 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.

• 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.

  View source

• No opening hours

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

• Phone number is not tap-to-call

  Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

• 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.

• About 694 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 694 words of visible text.

• Email authentication score: 95/100

  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.

• 7 trackers load before any consent

  7

  Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight and 2 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (TrustArc) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

• 31 cookies set on arrival

  31

  Opening the homepage sets 31 cookies, 5 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

• 46 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 46 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.