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bgrdc.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202623 issues · 89 checks
This review found 23 issues worth fixing on bgrdc.com, 7 of them high impact, across 89 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
83BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 3.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 87 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 87 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 82 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 85 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
bgrdc.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Mobile performance score: 80
80/100Your mobile performance score is 80. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
600 ms · 260 KiB8 images could be 260 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
300 ms · 69 KiBAbout 69 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 77 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.8 s
A phone's processor spends 0.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 161 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 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.
Real-user FCP: 3.3 s
3.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 3.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 3.0 s
3.0 sReal visitors wait 3.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.3 s
5.3 sYour largest element takes 5.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Real-user LCP: 3.5 s
3.5 sReal visitors wait 3.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Time to Interactive: 5.4 s
5.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 5.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
2 images without width and height
2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 85 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.4 s to 3.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.02
0.02For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Speed Index: 2.8 s
2.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.8 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.033
0.033The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.033, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.0 s
1.0 sThe first text or image appears after 1.0 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.2 MB in 22 requests
3.2 MBYour homepage downloads 3.2 MB in 22 requests on a phone: media 2.0 MB (1), images 910 KiB (15) and fonts 144 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
8 images in older formats
8 images (630 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.
7 images below the first screen load straight away
7 images further down the page (540 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.90 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.90 g of CO₂e: 108.5 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
3 text elements with low contrast
3 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 9 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
34 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 36 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 34 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
4 links with vague text
4 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
49 internal links, 2 external
The homepage links to 49 pages on bgrdc.com and 2 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 152 characters
Your meta description is 152 characters: “BGR Group brings together top former officials and experts in advocacy, offering unparalleled policy and public relatio…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “A Premier Bipartisan Public Affairs Firm”.
Title: 55 characters
Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “BGR Group | Expert Policy Advocacy and Public Relations”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://bgrdc.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.
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://bgrdc.com/sitemap_index.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 (428 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
7 pages without a meta description
/speakers-bureau, /bgr-group-named-2025-standout-firm-by-bloomberg-government, /bgr-september-2026-outlook-the-road-to-midterms, /the-2026-congressional-calendar, /bgrs-commerce-infrastructure-team-welcomes-kalina-thompson-as-a-vice-president and /bgr-review-october-23rd and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page with very little text
/bgr-september-2026-outlook-the-road-to-midterms 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.
12 internal pages checked
We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 12 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 12 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
18 of 18 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 30 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (bgrdc.com).
Valid certificate (39 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for bgrdc.com and is valid for another 39 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
http:// redirects to https
http://bgrdc.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 19 links work
All 19 links checked from your homepage (17 internal, 2 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
bgrdc.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
bgrdc.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 28 years old
28 yearsbgrdc.com was registered in Feb 1998 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Feb 2034
bgrdc.com is registered until Feb 2034.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust 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.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 405 words of copy
The homepage carries about 405 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact” and “Learn More”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Learn More” and “Contact Us”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 85/100
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: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (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).
Upkeep, stack and company
- 1 plugin is behind its latest release.save-as-pdf-by-pdfcrowd 4.6.0 → 4.6.3
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 7.1.4
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- DigitalOcean
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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