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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202638 issues · 101 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on cardio.com, 10 of them high impact, across 101 checks. The most urgent: 33,140 HTML elements. 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 s1.6 sMay 16Oct 311.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.7 s
May 23, 20261.7 s
May 30, 20261.7 s
Jun 6, 20261.7 s
Jun 13, 20261.7 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.8 s
Jul 4, 20261.8 s
Jul 11, 20262.0 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20261.9 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.8 s
Aug 15, 20261.8 s
Aug 22, 20261.8 s
Aug 29, 20261.7 s
Sep 5, 20261.7 s
Sep 12, 20261.7 s
Sep 19, 20261.7 s
Sep 26, 20261.7 s
Oct 3, 20261.7 s
Oct 10, 20261.8 s
Oct 17, 20261.8 s
Oct 24, 20261.8 s
Oct 31, 20261.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
150 ms80 msMay 16Oct 31136 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202688 ms
May 23, 202689 ms
May 30, 202692 ms
Jun 6, 202694 ms
Jun 13, 202695 ms
Jun 20, 202696 ms
Jun 27, 202695 ms
Jul 4, 202694 ms
Jul 11, 202696 ms
Jul 18, 202696 ms
Jul 25, 202696 ms
Aug 1, 2026100 ms
Aug 8, 2026108 ms
Aug 15, 2026122 ms
Aug 22, 2026134 ms
Aug 29, 2026138 ms
Sep 5, 2026142 ms
Sep 12, 2026135 ms
Sep 19, 2026136 ms
Sep 26, 2026138 ms
Oct 3, 2026137 ms
Oct 10, 2026138 ms
Oct 17, 2026138 ms
Oct 24, 2026133 ms
Oct 31, 2026136 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

13 to fix39
  • 33,140 HTML elements

    The page has 33,140 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.4 s · 583 KiB

    About 583 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.5 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.5 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 39

    39/100

    Your mobile performance score is 39. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 5.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 5.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, FontAwesome CDN and Accessibe Accessibility Overlay and others), adding 2.4 MB and 1.6 s of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    650 ms · 331 KiB

    8 images could be 331 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 650 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    800 ms · 119 KiB

    3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (119 KiB).

  • 18 long tasks on the main thread

    18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 728 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Google CDN adds 526 ms

    526 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 526 ms of main-thread work and 764 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.

  • FontAwesome CDN adds 509 ms

    509 ms

    FontAwesome CDN costs a phone 509 ms of main-thread work and 299 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 · 198 KiB

    About 198 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.

  • rater8.com adds 203 ms

    203 ms

    rater8.com costs a phone 203 ms of main-thread work and 837 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.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Minify JavaScript

    14 KiB

    14 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 15.1 s

    15.1 s

    Your largest element takes 15.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Confident heart doctor smiling in a bright, modern Cardiova…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 18.7 s

    18.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.3 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Speed Index: 7.9 s

    7.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 52% slower for real visitors

    +52%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 88 ms to 136 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • 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 1.7 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

7 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 173 ms

    173 ms

    Real visitors wait 173 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.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 657 ms

    657 ms

    Real visitors wait 657 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

3 to fix65
  • Page weight: 3.7 MB in 68 requests

    3.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.7 MB in 68 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (14), images 1.1 MB (18) and other files 870 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 8 images in older formats

    8 images (602 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.

  • 2 images far larger than shown

    12 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 2023-CIS-1119.jpg at 1,024 px wide, shown at 330 px. Resized copies would save about 12 KiB.

  • 6 images below the first screen load straight away

    6 images further down the page (284 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.05 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.05 g of CO₂e: 125.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 10096
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 5 links without text

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

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings should not be empty (1 element)

    Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 42 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 8595
  • No social preview image

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

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • 128 internal links, 33 external

    The homepage links to 128 pages on cardio.com and 33 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 132 characters

    Your meta description is 132 characters: “CIS is your premier cardiology provider, offering a full range of cardiovascular care, from prevention to diagnostics a…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Four Decades of Advancement and Innovation”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Cardiovascular Institute of the South | Louisiana Heart Doctors”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.cardio.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, 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://www.cardio.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (591 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 58 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 49 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

Google 96100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    11 of 13 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

3 to fix79
  • http:// does not redirect

    http://cardio.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.

  • No HSTS header

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

4 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (cardio.com).

  • Valid certificate (45 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for cardio.com and is valid for another 45 days.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 53 links work

    All 53 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 13 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    cardio.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

    cardio.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 years

    cardio.com was registered in Jun 1995 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until May 2027

    cardio.com is registered until May 2027.

Content and conversion

4 to fix64
  • 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: 2 testimonial or review blocks. 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.

  • About 513 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 513 words of visible text.

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  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Join Our Team” and “Learn More”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

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

Email authentication

2 to fix60
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be cardio.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • 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: 60/100

    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.

1 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:usb._netblocks.mimecast.com include:_spf.ultipro.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com +mx a:smtp.cardi…”.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 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

  • It loads jQuery 3.2.1, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).

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