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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202646 issues · 109 checks
This review found 46 issues worth fixing on cef.com, 18 of them high impact, across 109 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
68DClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 136 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 138 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 139 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 141 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 151 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 151 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 161 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 161 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
How it loaded on a phone
1.2 s
2.4 s
3.6 s
4.8 s
6.0 s
7.2 s
8.4 s
9.5 s
cef.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
3.3 s6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.3 s.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.5 s · 671 KiB30 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (671 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 10
10/100Your mobile performance score is 10. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 5.2 s
A phone's processor spends 5.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.2 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 Tag Manager, cookiebot.eu and Facebook and others), adding 1.5 MB and 2.2 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
770 ms · 374 KiBAbout 374 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 770 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 661 ms
661 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 661 ms of main-thread work and 533 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 619 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
cookiebot.eu adds 578 ms
578 mscookiebot.eu costs a phone 578 ms of main-thread work and 32 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
460 ms · 63 KiBAbout 63 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 460 ms faster on a phone.
Font display
500 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 500 ms).
Facebook adds 337 ms
337 msFacebook costs a phone 337 ms of main-thread work and 230 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 134 ms
134 msFontAwesome CDN costs a phone 134 ms of main-thread work and 490 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.
Legacy JavaScript
21 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Improve image delivery
6 KiB1 image could be 6 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
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: 111 ms
111 msYour server sent the HTML in 111 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 8.2 s
8.2 sYour largest element takes 8.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Itinerarios profesionales”.
Time to Interactive: 19.3 s
19.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 19.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.918
0.918The layout shifts by 0.918 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Total Blocking Time: 1.8 s
1.8 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.8 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 7.2 s
7.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 7.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 3.6 s
3.6 sThe first text or image appears after 3.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 21% slower for real visitors
+21%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 2.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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) got 18% slower for real visitors
+18%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 136 ms to 161 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
6 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: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 171 ms
171 msReal visitors wait 171 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.
Real-user FCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 704 ms
704 msReal visitors wait 704 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.1 MB in 107 requests
2.1 MBYour homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 107 requests on a phone: scripts 1.7 MB (34), fonts 216 KiB (4) and images 91 KiB (23). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Welcome 5.jpg.webp is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit
0.60 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.60 g of CO₂e: 72.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Unlabelled dropdowns
4 dropdowns have no label.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
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.
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.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
1 checks passed
46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Meta description is long (190 characters)
Your meta description is 190 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
19 links with vague text
19 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
136 internal links, 15 external
The homepage links to 136 pages on cef.com and 15 external pages.
6 checks passed
Title: 45 characters
Your title is a healthy 45 characters: “CEF.- | Masters, Cursos, Oposiciones y Libros”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.cef.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: School and WebPage.
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://www.cef.es/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,570 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 pages share a meta description
/noticias and /areas-formacion use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
2 links to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /curso/curso-monografico-movilidad-extranjeria-nacionalidad, whose canonical is /curso/curso-movilidad-extranjeria-nacionalidad. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 67 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.
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 broken images
2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=17548766&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=83718b13-ec30-4d5e-ba36-10616bf2e8ab&bo=1&sid=4fa53570d37211f1992e03c9b64aae80&vid=4fa55b70d37211f18db8f717dbb05fba&vids=1&msclkid=N&pid=e.
1 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
63 of 63 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
2 broken external links
2 links to other sites are dead, for example https://b2cef.b2clogin.com/b2cef.onmicrosoft.com/b2c_1a_ca_signup_signin/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=3d65fdd7-4c4c-490d-8c53-a4cc68a1fb34&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fopolab.cef.com%2Fauthentication%2Flogin-callback&response_type=id_token&scope=openid%20profile&response_mode=form_post&nonce=639053014445949600.NGY1ZWRkN2MtNDhlMC00Yzc5LTkxNjgtMWQ3NzE3YmM4MDZiNmY3ODQ4NTgtZDFhNC00ZDFlLWFiMzUtMDQ1MThhN2Q3MGM1&client_info=1&x-client-brkrver=IDWeb.3.3.1.0&state=CfDJ8B8h_sdh3JhAsozBWj87Iv5HvxBWrKei87nbQFbKfDI9K0Blb7nQg1Rw5uKNkvNadXwsz_kDo_5J6D2cS3H60PxFZrtow_cqUDu6lk4Rpfu5xU-c2msMyCIFfn5N0VY7O3IeFjf61Ndomh-YP78W17d6B1QVs0UznOFmxHfDCm6A4OkQMWeLDTQqlwlK6SCVxRiidbR3m4KEMLD_E2gkbxIhO57o7BQhIKegzkgiYSnMlJbXmvDLplGzNOAWlxwwWJzM-TkSVHEPR2VuOko_hIRSm3cxpPeAmUYRPpYps5ThTf68-VmjV_UaET5nRJd0vw&x-client-SKU=ID_NET8_0&x-client-ver=8.2.0.0 (404).
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.
HTTP/1.1 only
The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.
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 (cef.com).
Valid certificate (28 days left)
The certificate from DigiCert Inc · RapidSSL TLS RSA CA G1 verifies for cef.com and is valid for another 28 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
http:// redirects to https
http://cef.com redirects to the secure version.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
cef.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
cef.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 28 years old
28 yearscef.com was registered in Sep 1998 through Arsys Internet, S.L. dba NICLINE.COM. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Sep 2027
cef.com is registered until Sep 2027.
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 calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 1,923 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,923 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
2 short forms
2 short forms (5 fields at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
No DMARC policy
cef.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.
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: 40/100
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.
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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 -all ”.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Meta Pixel and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
15 cookies set on arrival
15Opening the homepage sets 15 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
33 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 33 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: Cookiebot
A consent management tool (Cookiebot) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2025.
Stack
- CMS
- Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- AireNetworks
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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