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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202619 issues · 88 checks

This review found 19 issues worth fixing on binaryoptions.net, 6 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.0 s1.7 sMay 16Oct 312.0 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.8 s
May 23, 20261.8 s
May 30, 20261.8 s
Jun 6, 20261.8 s
Jun 13, 20261.8 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.8 s
Jul 4, 20261.9 s
Jul 11, 20261.9 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20261.9 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.9 s
Aug 15, 20261.9 s
Aug 22, 20261.9 s
Aug 29, 20261.9 s
Sep 5, 20261.9 s
Sep 12, 20261.9 s
Sep 19, 20261.9 s
Sep 26, 20261.9 s
Oct 3, 20261.9 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20262.0 s
Oct 24, 20262.0 s
Oct 31, 20262.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
207 ms183 msMay 16Oct 31194 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026186 ms
May 23, 2026190 ms
May 30, 2026190 ms
Jun 6, 2026191 ms
Jun 13, 2026191 ms
Jun 20, 2026191 ms
Jun 27, 2026197 ms
Jul 4, 2026200 ms
Jul 11, 2026200 ms
Jul 18, 2026195 ms
Jul 25, 2026196 ms
Aug 1, 2026192 ms
Aug 8, 2026191 ms
Aug 15, 2026199 ms
Aug 22, 2026198 ms
Aug 29, 2026200 ms
Sep 5, 2026199 ms
Sep 12, 2026195 ms
Sep 19, 2026203 ms
Sep 26, 2026204 ms
Oct 3, 2026201 ms
Oct 10, 2026197 ms
Oct 17, 2026193 ms
Oct 24, 2026191 ms
Oct 31, 2026194 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

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Speed

100
  • 2 third-party services on the page

    2 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics), adding 162 KiB and 123 ms of main-thread time.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 92 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    68 KiB

    About 68 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

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  • Mobile performance score: 100

    100/100

    Your mobile performance score is 100. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 0.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 104 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 98 ms

    98 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 98 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • 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 TTFB: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    Real visitors wait 2.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 186 ms to 194 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 11% slower for real visitors

    +11%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 192 ms

    192 ms

    Real visitors wait 192 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Time to Interactive: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The page is fully interactive after 2.7 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.1 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: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Your largest element renders in 1.1 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “An important message for our US visitors: Binary options tr…”.

  • Speed Index: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 1.6 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 44 ms

    44 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 44 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.06 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.06 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.06 g of CO₂e: 7.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 214 KiB in 7 requests

    214 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 214 KiB in 7 requests on a phone: scripts 161 KiB (1), HTML 46 KiB (1) and images 6 KiB (4). 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

4 to fixGoogle 9394
  • Links look like plain text

    30 links inside paragraphs rely on colour alone to stand out.

  • 18 text elements with low contrast

    18 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 3 links without text

    3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 12 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10093
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No robots.txt

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

  • 158 internal links, 27 external

    The homepage links to 158 pages on binaryoptions.net and 27 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 151 characters

    Your meta description is 151 characters: “Learn how to trade with binary options and what it takes to succeed with online binary trading. Get started today with …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Binary options trading, explained simply”.

  • Title: 54 characters

    Your title is a healthy 54 characters: “How to Succeed with Binary Options Trading Online 2026”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.binaryoptions.net/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Article, Organization, Person, WebPage and WebSite.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.binaryoptions.net/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (5,629 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 87 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 7 small tap targets

    7 of 22 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • 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://financialtherapyassociation.org/find-a-financial-therapist/.

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (binaryoptions.net).

  • Valid certificate (45 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for binaryoptions.net and is valid for another 45 days.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://binaryoptions.net redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 60 links work

    All 60 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 20 external) answered without errors; 2 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    binaryoptions.net 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

    binaryoptions.net'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 22 years old

    22 years

    binaryoptions.net was registered in Dec 2003 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Dec 2027

    binaryoptions.net is registered until Dec 2027.

Content and conversion

3 to fix60
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 5,526 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 5,526 words of visible text.

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  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Demo accounts”, “Try CloseOption →” and “Binary Options Demo Accounts”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

Email authentication

2 to fix40
  • No DMARC policy

    binaryoptions.net has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Email authentication score: 40/100

    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.

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  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:secureserver.net -all”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 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.

  • 2 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Akamai Cloud

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