cdr.com website review

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.9 s.

About 221 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

About 235 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 72 (desktop: 98). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 113 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

2 images could be 30 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Desktop scores 98 but mobile only 72. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (7 KiB).

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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.

The first text or image appears after 4.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 4.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Building Businesses, Building Value”.

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

Real visitors wait 1.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 22.7 MB in 14 requests on a phone: media 21.3 MB (2), scripts 341 KiB (2) and fonts 340 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images (61 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 6.43 g of CO₂e: 771.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

6 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: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Your title is 109 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “CD&R | Building Businesses Building Value — Clayton Dubilier & Rice, LLC | Building Busin…”.

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

There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Building Businesses, Building Value”, “Menu” and “Menu”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

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

The homepage links to 37 pages on cdr.com and 6 external pages.

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.

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.

/cdr-foundation, /news/cd-and-r-and-mckesson-corporation-sign-agreement-to-acquire-option-care-health, /news/giovanni-caforio-appointed-operating-advisor-to-cd-and-r-funds, /news/cd-and-r-named-a-top-private-equity-firm-of-2026-by-growthcap, /news/john-chiminski-former-catalent-chair-and-ceo-to-serve-as-cd-and-r-operating-advisor and /privacy-and-terms-of-use and 1 other use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/team, /team/advisors, /portfolio, /firm/sustainability and /cdr-foundation took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 16 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Ignoring duplicate Content-Security-Policy directive 'frame-ancestors'.”.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

cdr.com is registered until Nov 2026. If it lapses, the site and its email stop working and someone else can buy the name. Renew it, and turn on auto-renew.

cdr.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.

cdr.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.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 329 words of visible text.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.