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bestegg.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202625 issues · 107 checks
This review found 25 issues worth fixing on bestegg.com, 10 of them high impact, across 107 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
84BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.8 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 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 107 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 108 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 119 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
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
bestegg.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
3.2 s20 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.2 s.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.6 s · 474 KiB30 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (474 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.5 s · 314 KiBAbout 314 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 53
53/100Your mobile performance score is 53. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Main-thread work: 2.4 s
A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 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 (Optanon, FullStory and Trust Pilot and others), adding 517 KiB and 318 ms of main-thread time.
5 long tasks on the main thread
5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 244 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 42 KiBAbout 42 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
133 KiB2 images could be 133 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Legacy JavaScript
9 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 9 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.
Minify JavaScript
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
1 checks passed
Server response: 17 ms
17 msYour server sent the HTML in 17 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 12.2 s
12.2 sYour largest element takes 12.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We use cookies to collect information about your interactio…”.
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.
Time to Interactive: 12.3 s
12.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 12.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.8 s
6.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 262 ms
262 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 262 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
12 images without width and height
12 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) got 13% slower for real visitors
+13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 119 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 2.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 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: 137 ms
137 msReal visitors wait 137 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (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: 596 ms
596 msReal visitors wait 596 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.041
0.041The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.041, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
2 images in older formats
2 images (112 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 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.51 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.51 g of CO₂e: 61.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Page weight: 1.8 MB in 136 requests
1.8 MBYour homepage downloads 1.8 MB in 136 requests on a phone: scripts 952 KiB (46), fonts 362 KiB (4) and images 299 KiB (37). That is a lean page.
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
Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (1 element)
Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
ARIA attributes must conform to valid names (1 element)
ARIA attributes must conform to valid names: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
3 images without alt text
3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (4 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 4 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.
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.
Users should be able to zoom and scale the text up to 500% (1 element)
Users should be able to zoom and scale the text up to 500%: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
1 checks passed
44 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 6 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found ((untyped), BreadcrumbList, FAQPage and LoanOrCredit) but with 1 problem, for example “block has no @type”.
2 links with vague text
2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
91 internal links, 27 external
The homepage links to 91 pages on bestegg.com and 27 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 147 characters
Your meta description is 147 characters: “Get low-interest personal loans quickly with Best Egg. Apply online in minutes & receive funds fast. Start your journey…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Real people helping real people”.
Title: 52 characters
Your title is a healthy 52 characters: “Personal Loans | Quick & Easy Application | Best Egg”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.bestegg.com/.
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.bestegg.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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 (2,256 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (3 KiB, 25 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 44 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 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
18 of 20 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.
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://instagram.com/mybestegg.
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.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (bestegg.com).
Valid certificate (28 days left)
The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 verifies for bestegg.com and is valid for another 28 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://bestegg.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 54 links work
All 54 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 14 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
bestegg.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
bestegg.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 26 years old
26 yearsbestegg.com was registered in Mar 2000 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Aug 2027
bestegg.com is registered until Aug 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.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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.
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 1,902 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,902 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Start application”.
13 calls to action
The homepage has 13 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Join the team” and “Start application”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks, 9 trust badges and “12,000+ reviews”.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be bestegg.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 75/100
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 with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:u929534.wl.sendgrid.net include:us._netblock…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads FullStory (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.
10 cookies set on arrival
10Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
11 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 11 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
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- FullStory
- Hosting
- Fastly
Hiring
- Hiring
- 6 open roles
- Teams
- Credit Strategy & Implementation (2), Credit Risk Oversight (1), Data Science - Product (1), Product Management (1)
- Job board
- lever
- Careers page
- jobs.lever.co/BestEgg (opens in a new tab)
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 25 issues on bestegg.com, including 11 speed issues, 2 SEO issues and 2 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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