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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202632 issues · 104 checks

This review found 32 issues worth fixing on cartesian.com, 14 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
2.5 s1.9 sMay 9Oct 242.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.1 s
May 16, 20262.2 s
May 23, 20262.2 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.3 s
Jun 13, 20262.2 s
Jun 20, 20262.2 s
Jun 27, 20262.5 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.4 s
Jul 18, 20262.2 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20262.1 s
Aug 15, 20262.2 s
Aug 22, 20262.1 s
Aug 29, 20262.0 s
Sep 5, 20262.1 s
Sep 12, 20262.1 s
Sep 19, 20262.1 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.2 s
Oct 10, 20262.2 s
Oct 17, 20262.2 s
Oct 24, 20262.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
100 ms75 msMay 9Aug 887 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 202693 ms
May 16, 202692 ms
May 23, 202696 ms
May 30, 202696 ms
Jun 6, 202697 ms
Jun 13, 202697 ms
Jun 20, 202688 ms
Jun 27, 202678 ms
Jul 4, 202690 ms
Jul 11, 202689 ms
Jul 18, 202690 ms
Jul 25, 202691 ms
Aug 8, 202687 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

9 to fix56
  • Render-blocking requests

    7.9 s

    88 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 7.9 s.

  • Improve image delivery

    3.2 s · 661 KiB

    4 images could be 661 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.6 s · 334 KiB

    About 334 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    1.4 s · 174 KiB

    About 174 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    1.4 s

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 1.4 s).

  • Main-thread work: 4.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Mobile performance score: 56

    56/100

    Your mobile performance score is 56. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 1,751 HTML elements

    The page has 1,751 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 311 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.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Clarity, cdn-cookieyes.com and GoDaddy and others), adding 560 KiB and 260 ms of main-thread time.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 106 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    36 KiB

    3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (36 KiB).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    15 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 15 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Minify CSS

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 21.0 s

    21.0 s

    Your largest element takes 21.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Strategic Advice, Project Delivery, and Technology Solution…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 21.0 s

    21.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 21.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 6.0 s

    6.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 6.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.2 s

    10.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 93 ms to 87 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    0%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.1 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: 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 CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

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

  • Real-user TTFB: 780 ms

    780 ms

    Real visitors wait 780 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 68 ms

    68 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 68 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 5.2 MB in 224 requests

    5.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.2 MB in 224 requests on a phone: images 2.7 MB (39), scripts 1.1 MB (66) and fonts 1.0 MB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 8 images in older formats

    8 images (384 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.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (180 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.46 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.46 g of CO₂e: 175.7 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

8 to fixGoogle 9191
  • Links look like plain text

    1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)

    Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)

    Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 30 links without text

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

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 39 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 39 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 39 passed and 9 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • Title is long (75 characters)

    Your title is 75 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Consulting and Managed Services for the Communications Industry - Cartesian”.

  • 199 internal links, 1 external

    The homepage links to 199 pages on cartesian.com and 1 external page.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 130 characters

    Your meta description is 130 characters: “Strategic advice, project delivery, and technology solutions for the telecommunications, digital media, and technology …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Strategic Advice, Project Delivery, and Technology Solutions for the Communications Sector”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization, 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.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.cartesian.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • 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.

3 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 (654 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 57 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 9687
  • 6 small tap targets

    6 of 17 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix86
  • 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 (cartesian.com).

  • Valid certificate (33 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for cartesian.com and is valid for another 33 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://cartesian.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 41 links work

    All 41 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 1 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    cartesian.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

    cartesian.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 30 years old

    30 years

    cartesian.com was registered in Apr 1996 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Apr 2027

    cartesian.com is registered until Apr 2027.

Content and conversion

3 to fix58
  • 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 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 467 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 467 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “How to Apply”, “Contact” and “Learn more.”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be cartesian.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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
  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:amazonses.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:sendersrv.com incl…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “selector2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 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
  • Consent tool: CookieYes

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

Upkeep, stack and company

  • 2 plugins are behind their latest release.ele-custom-skin 4.3.10 → 4.3.13 · elementor 4.3.2 → 4.3.5

Stack

CMS
WordPress 7.1.3
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Microsoft Clarity

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