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bvp.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202623 issues · 73 checks
This review found 23 issues worth fixing on bvp.com, 9 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 4.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 4.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 4.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 4.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 6.1 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 5.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 209 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 200 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 203 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 184 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 174 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 168 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 285 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 748 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 800 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 800 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 797 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 705 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
Speed
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Real-user LCP: 5.7 s
5.7 sReal visitors wait 5.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 705 ms
705 msReal visitors wait 705 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user FCP: 5.6 s
5.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 5.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 4.3 s
4.3 sReal visitors wait 4.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 267% slower for real visitors
+267%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 209 ms to 705 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 21% slower for real visitors
+21%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.9 s to 5.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
1 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Images and page weight
1 image over 500 KB
cube.png weighs 929 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
1 image far larger than shown
913 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example cube.png at 856 px wide, shown at 37 px. Resized copies would save about 913 KiB.
1 image in older formats
1 image (929 KiB) is 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.
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (929 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.55 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.55 g of CO₂e: 65.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Page weight: 1.9 MB
1.9 MBYour homepage downloads 1.9 MB on a phone, 998 KiB of it images (50%). That is a lean page.
Accessibility
6 text elements with low contrast
6 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 form fields without a label
2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 43 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
48 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 1 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (25 characters)
Your title is only 25 characters: “Bessemer Venture Partners”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
74 internal links, 13 external
The homepage links to 74 pages on bvp.com and 13 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 151 characters
Your meta description is 151 characters: “Global in reach and decentralized by design, Bessemer Venture Partners backs founders in any sector—from seed to growth…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Forged in steel. Building what’s next.”.
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.bvp.com/sitemap.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 (430 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 pages without an H1
/team and /atlas have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
3 pages with very little text
/portfolio, /team and /atlas have 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.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 19 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
108 of 111 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 clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (bvp.com).
Valid certificate (58 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for bvp.com and is valid for another 58 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://bvp.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 46 links work
All 46 links checked from your homepage (38 internal, 8 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
bvp.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
bvp.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 31 years old
31 yearsbvp.com was registered in Sep 1995 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Sep 2030
bvp.com is registered until Sep 2030.
Content and conversion
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: “450+ active companies”. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 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 444 words of copy
The homepage carries about 444 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
2 calls to action
The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Subscribe to Atlas” and “Subscribe”.
4 short forms
4 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 95/100
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: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject 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.mtasv.net include:ccsend.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:us._netblo…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “k1” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
1 cookie set on arrival
1Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (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.
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
Stack
- Framework
- Next.js
- Hosting
- Netlify
Hiring
- Hiring
- 672 open roles
- Teams
- Sales (108), AI Research & Engineering (65), Applied AI (54), Security (50)
- Job board
- greenhouse
- Careers page
- jobs.bvp.com/jobs (opens in a new tab)
Company
- Founded
- 1911
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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