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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202637 issues · 100 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on bucksense.com, 11 of them high impact, across 100 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. bucksense.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. bucksense.com at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. bucksense.com at 1.4 s1.4 s
  4. bucksense.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  5. bucksense.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  6. bucksense.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  7. bucksense.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  8. bucksense.com at 3.8 s3.8 s

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

Speed

7 to fix51
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.6 s · 761 KiB

    About 761 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.6 s faster on a phone.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and Facebook and others), adding 1.6 MB and 988 ms of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 51

    51/100

    Your mobile performance score is 51. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    600 ms

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 489 ms

    489 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 489 ms of main-thread work and 625 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 67 KiB

    About 67 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google CDN adds 288 ms

    288 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 288 ms of main-thread work and 755 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    218 KiB

    6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (218 KiB).

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 161 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    34 KiB

    2 images could be 34 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    13 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 13 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Main-thread work: 2.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix60
  • First Contentful Paint: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 6.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 16.4 s

    16.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Your largest element takes 6.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “As your brand partner, Bucksense helps you bring your digit…”.

  • Speed Index: 7.3 s

    7.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 379 ms

    379 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 379 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 16 images without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.9 MB in 55 requests

    2.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 55 requests on a phone: scripts 1.6 MB (19), other files 682 KiB (10) and images 414 KiB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (21 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.83 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.83 g of CO₂e: 99.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

9 to fixGoogle 7888
  • Unlabelled dropdowns

    1 dropdown has no label.

  • 6 tap targets too small

    6 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • 22 images without alt text

    22 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (9 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 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.

  • 7 form fields without a label

    7 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • 2 links without text

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

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

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  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 8 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 7579
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 13 H1 headlines

    There are 13 <h1> headlines (“Redefining digital success”, “1” and “2”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Meta description is long (182 characters)

    Your meta description is 182 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 7 links crawlers can't follow

    7 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 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.

  • 67 internal links, 10 external

    The homepage links to 67 pages on bucksense.com and 10 external pages.

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  • Title: 42 characters

    Your title is a healthy 42 characters: “In-house marketing, done right | Bucksense”.

  • 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.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://bucksense.com/sitemap.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.

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  • 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 (928 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 16 pages share a title

    /, /innovations/branding, /innovations/acquisition, /innovations/retargeting, /innovations/publishers and /platform/media-formats and 10 others all use the title “In-house marketing, done right | Bucksense”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 15 pages share a meta description

    /innovations/branding, /innovations/acquisition, /innovations/retargeting, /innovations/publishers, /platform/media-formats and /platform/optimization-tools and 9 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 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.

  • 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 7393
  • 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”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Mixed content”).

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    18 of 21 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix83
  • 1 insecure resource on an https page

    1 resource load over plain http on your https page (for example http://www.gstatic.com/partners/badge/images/2021/PartnerBadgeClickable.svg); browsers block or warn about them.

  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 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 (bucksense.com).

  • Valid certificate (60 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for bucksense.com and is valid for another 60 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.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://bucksense.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 31 links work

    All 31 links checked from your homepage (22 internal, 9 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    bucksense.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.

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  • Domain is 20 years old

    20 years

    bucksense.com was registered in Jan 2006 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

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

  • Registered until Jan 2029

    bucksense.com is registered until Jan 2029.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • 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 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 866 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 866 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn more >” and “LEARN MORE”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Learn More”, “Contact us” and “Contact Us”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (7 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 customer or partner logos and 2 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight.

Email authentication

85
  • 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.

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  • 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.mandrillapp.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.google.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “selector1” and “k2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel (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.

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 14 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It loads jQuery 1.10.2, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Akamai Cloud

Company

Headquarters
New York

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