cbs12.com website review

Not measured in this review.

• Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

  -4%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Page weight: 3.4 MB

  3.4 MB

  Your homepage downloads 3.4 MB on a phone, 254 KiB of it images (7%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit

  0.95 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.95 g of CO₂e: 114.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• 21 tap targets too small

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

  Elements (3)

• 13 text elements with low contrast

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

  Elements (3)

• All page content should be contained by landmarks (7 elements)

  All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  Elements (3)

• Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

  Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  Elements (1)

• 15 links without text

  15 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.

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• No H1 headline

  There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

• No structured data

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

• Meta description is long (429 characters)

  Your meta description is 429 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

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• 135 internal links, 16 external

  The homepage links to 135 pages on cbs12.com and 16 external pages.

• robots.txt blocks 1 AI answer engine crawler

  1 of 6

  Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

• 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.

• Opted out of AI training for 5 crawlers

  robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

• 5 pages share a meta description

  /weather, /news/videos, /en-espanol, /money and /watch use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

• 4 pages without an H1

  /weather, /news/videos, /en-espanol and /money have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 118 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 6 JavaScript errors while loading

  6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “pbjs.setConfig is not a function”.

• 1 broken external link

  1 link to other sites is dead, for example http://twitter.com/cbs12 (520).

• Short HSTS lifetime

  HSTS is set, but max-age is 182 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

• 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.

• No CAA record

  cbs12.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

  cbs12.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.

• 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: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

• 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 1,319 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 1,319 words of visible text.

• Urgency cues

  The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

• 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.

• 9 trackers load before any consent

  9

  Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Criteo, Google Ads and Google Analytics and 4 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Ketch) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

• 18 cookies set on arrival

  18

  Opening the homepage sets 18 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

• 79 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 79 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.