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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202627 issues · 101 checks

This review found 27 issues worth fixing on bofaml.com, 13 of them high impact, across 101 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
3.0 s2.4 sMay 16Oct 312.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20262.5 s
May 23, 20262.6 s
May 30, 20262.5 s
Jun 6, 20262.5 s
Jun 13, 20262.5 s
Jun 20, 20262.5 s
Jun 27, 20262.5 s
Jul 4, 20262.5 s
Jul 11, 20262.5 s
Jul 18, 20262.5 s
Jul 25, 20262.5 s
Aug 1, 20262.5 s
Aug 8, 20262.5 s
Aug 15, 20262.5 s
Aug 22, 20262.4 s
Aug 29, 20262.5 s
Sep 5, 20262.5 s
Sep 12, 20262.5 s
Sep 19, 20262.5 s
Sep 26, 20262.6 s
Oct 3, 20262.7 s
Oct 10, 20262.8 s
Oct 17, 20262.8 s
Oct 24, 20262.8 s
Oct 31, 20262.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
112 ms99 msMay 16Oct 31100 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026106 ms
May 23, 2026106 ms
May 30, 2026108 ms
Jun 6, 2026108 ms
Jun 13, 2026109 ms
Jun 20, 2026110 ms
Jun 27, 2026109 ms
Jul 4, 2026110 ms
Jul 11, 2026110 ms
Jul 18, 2026107 ms
Jul 25, 2026107 ms
Aug 1, 2026107 ms
Aug 8, 2026106 ms
Aug 15, 2026106 ms
Aug 22, 2026106 ms
Aug 29, 2026104 ms
Sep 5, 2026104 ms
Sep 12, 2026105 ms
Sep 19, 2026105 ms
Sep 26, 2026106 ms
Oct 3, 2026106 ms
Oct 10, 2026105 ms
Oct 17, 2026104 ms
Oct 24, 2026102 ms
Oct 31, 2026100 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. bofaml.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. bofaml.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. bofaml.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  4. bofaml.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  5. bofaml.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  6. bofaml.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  7. bofaml.com at 3.8 s3.8 s
  8. bofaml.com at 4.3 s4.3 s

bofaml.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

7 to fix68
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    9.8 s · 3.9 MB

    80 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.9 MB).

  • Improve image delivery

    4.0 s · 1.4 MB

    6 images could be 1.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.5 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.5 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    1.6 s · 357 KiB

    About 357 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 68

    68/100

    Your mobile performance score is 68. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    300 ms · 483 KiB

    About 483 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.

  • Tealium adds 148 ms

    148 ms

    Tealium costs a phone 148 ms of main-thread work and 430 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Tealium, Optanon and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 982 KiB and 335 ms of main-thread time.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 51 KiB

    51 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 104 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    37 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 37 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 0.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 411 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 43 ms

    43 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 43 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix100
  • 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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 11.1 s

    11.1 s

    Your largest element takes 11.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 16.0 s

    16.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 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.

  • 4 images without width and height

    4 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -5%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 106 ms to 100 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 13% slower for real visitors

    +13%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 94 ms

    94 ms

    Real visitors wait 94 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.04

    0.04

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.04 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.032

    0.032

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.032, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 29 ms

    29 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 29 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

4 to fix38
  • Page weight: 4.4 MB in 108 requests

    4.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.4 MB in 108 requests on a phone: images 2.7 MB (24), scripts 1,009 KiB (47) and stylesheets 336 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image over 500 KB

    AV_Sept_Masthead.gif weighs 925 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 9 images in older formats

    9 images (2.6 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.

  • 5 images below the first screen load straight away

    5 images further down the page (751 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.25 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.25 g of CO₂e: 150.3 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

2 to fixGoogle 10096
  • Interactive controls must not be nested (2 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed
  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 1 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • 103 internal links, 31 external

    The homepage links to 103 pages on bofaml.com and 31 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 159 characters

    Your meta description is 159 characters: “Bank of America and BofA Securities provide global insights and solutions that make it easier to do business. Learn mor…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “See what’s next — ahead of the shifts”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Bank of America & BofA Securities - Global Insights & Solutions”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://business.bofa.com/content/boaml/en_us/home.html.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://business.bofa.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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 (1,094 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 77 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

2 to fixGoogle 7391
  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Connecting to 'https://siteintercept.qualtrics.com/WRSiteInterceptEngine/Targeting.php?Q_ZoneID=ZN_78njUbwkODhG8hT&Q_CL…”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    10 of 10 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • 3 redirects before the homepage

    Opening https://bofaml.com goes through 3 redirects before the homepage loads.

  • 2 links through redirect chains

    2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.accountmanagement.baml.com/login/login.aspx?sgt=2.

  • 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.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (business.bofa.com).

  • Valid certificate (94 days left)

    The certificate from DigiCert Inc · DigiCert EV RSA CA G2 verifies for bofaml.com and is valid for another 94 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://bofaml.com 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; 4 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

4 checks passed
  • Domain is 34 years old

    34 years

    bofa.com was registered in May 1992 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only amazontrust.com, digicert.com and sectigo.com to issue certificates for bofa.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • DNSSEC is on

    bofa.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.

  • Registered until May 2027

    bofa.com is registered until May 2027.

Content and conversion

4 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.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • About 452 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 452 words of visible text.

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  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact us” and “Contact Us”.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

90
  • 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.

  • Domain receives no email

    bofaml.com has no MX record, so it receives no email. SPF -all and DMARC reject still matter: they stop others sending mail as you.

  • Email authentication score: 90/100

    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
  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

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

Privacy and tracking

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 7 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

2 checks passed
  • Consent tool: OneTrust

    A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.

  • 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

Stack

Hosting
Azure

Company

Employees
213,000
Founded
1998
Headquarters
Charlotte

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