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carma.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202629 issues · 98 checks
This review found 29 issues worth fixing on carma.com, 8 of them high impact, across 98 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
86BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 3.6 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 146 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 149 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 151 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 151 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 151 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 177 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
Render-blocking requests
3.1 s62 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.1 s.
Improve image delivery
1.1 s · 223 KiB9 images could be 223 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 70
70/100Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
300 ms · 419 KiBAbout 419 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.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Hubspot and others), adding 872 KiB and 522 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 107 KiBAbout 107 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
353 KiB16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (353 KiB).
Google Tag Manager adds 219 ms
219 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 219 ms of main-thread work and 364 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.
7 long tasks on the main thread
7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 105 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
40 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 40 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.
Minify CSS
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.6 s
A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 873 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 4 ms
4 msYour server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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: 7.2 s
7.2 sYour largest element takes 7.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 14.8 s
14.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 14.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 21% slower for real visitors
+21%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 146 ms to 177 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 962 ms
962 msReal visitors wait 962 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
2.7 sThe first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 3.7 s
3.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.4 s to 3.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 165 ms
165 msReal visitors wait 165 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Total Blocking Time: 106 ms
106 msScripts block the page for only 106 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.049
0.049The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.049, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.2 MB in 159 requests
2.2 MBYour homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 159 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (58), images 617 KiB (27) and stylesheets 211 KiB (55). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit
0.63 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.63 g of CO₂e: 75.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
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
9 text elements with low contrast
9 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 (26 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 26 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
Hidden but focusable
1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 24 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
41 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: 41 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
73 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 73 pages on carma.com and 8 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 121 characters
Your meta description is 121 characters: “CARMA is a global media intelligence provider bringing clarity, understanding and insight to the complex media landscap…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “The choice of senior PR & communications professionals”.
Title: 61 characters
Your title is a healthy 61 characters: “CARMA Media Analysis & Intelligence. Delivering What Matters.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://carma.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Corporation, SiteNavigationElement 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://carma.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
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 (905 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (9 KiB, 53 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
/products-and-services has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 39 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.
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
6 small tap targets
6 of 12 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
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
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.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (carma.com).
Valid certificate (81 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for carma.com and is valid for another 81 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://carma.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 48 links work
All 48 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 8 external) answered without errors; 6 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
carma.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
carma.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 yearscarma.com was registered in Jun 1995 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jun 2030
carma.com is registered until Jun 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.
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 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 917 words of copy
The homepage carries about 917 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Learn more →” and “Book a call”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and HubSpot.
Email authentication
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine 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 ip4:167.89.84.55 ip4:168.245.105.173 ip4:168.245.76.244 ip4:159.183.125.18 include:spf.protection.outlook.com in…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “k1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 2 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
12 cookies set on arrival
12Opening the homepage sets 12 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
28 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 28 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
- It runs WordPress 7.0.8; the current release is 7.1.4.
- 3 plugins are behind their latest release.the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder 5.1.0 → 6.6.0 · svg-support 2.5.9 → 2.6.3 · simple-calendar-for-elementor 1.0.0 → 1.6.7
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 7.0.8
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
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