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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 31 October 202622 issues · 95 checks

This review found 22 issues worth fixing on centizen.com, 4 of them high impact, across 95 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
2.2 s1.5 sMay 9Oct 241.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.1 s
May 16, 20262.1 s
May 23, 20262.1 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.1 s
Jun 13, 20262.1 s
Jun 20, 20262.1 s
Jun 27, 20262.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20262.1 s
Jul 18, 20262.1 s
Jul 25, 20262.1 s
Aug 1, 20261.8 s
Aug 8, 20261.7 s
Aug 15, 20261.6 s
Aug 22, 20261.6 s
Aug 29, 20261.6 s
Sep 5, 20261.7 s
Sep 12, 20261.9 s
Sep 19, 20261.9 s
Sep 26, 20261.9 s
Oct 3, 20261.9 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20261.9 s
Oct 24, 20261.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
193 ms102 msMay 9Oct 24122 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026182 ms
May 16, 2026178 ms
May 23, 2026179 ms
May 30, 2026171 ms
Jun 6, 2026177 ms
Jun 13, 2026175 ms
Jun 20, 2026169 ms
Jun 27, 2026172 ms
Jul 4, 2026157 ms
Jul 11, 2026148 ms
Jul 18, 2026143 ms
Jul 25, 2026131 ms
Aug 1, 2026121 ms
Aug 8, 2026116 ms
Aug 15, 2026112 ms
Aug 22, 2026113 ms
Aug 29, 2026113 ms
Sep 5, 2026115 ms
Sep 12, 2026124 ms
Sep 19, 2026124 ms
Sep 26, 2026124 ms
Oct 3, 2026125 ms
Oct 10, 2026126 ms
Oct 17, 2026124 ms
Oct 24, 2026122 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

5 to fix75
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.4 s · 1.7 MB

    68 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.7 MB).

  • Mobile performance score: 75

    75/100

    Your mobile performance score is 75. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    600 ms · 314 KiB

    14 images could be 314 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 50 KiB

    About 50 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    300 ms

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (clutch.co, JSDelivr CDN and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 476 KiB and 37 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 0.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 36 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix67
  • 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: 5.9 s

    5.9 s

    Your largest element takes 5.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Build Faster with Scalable Digital Engineering With 22+ yea…”.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors wait 1.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Time to Interactive: 5.9 s

    5.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 5.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 6 images without width and height

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

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

5 checks passed
  • Real-user INP: 145 ms

    145 ms

    Real visitors wait 145 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 32% faster for real visitors

    -32%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 182 ms to 122 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

3 to fix68
  • Page weight: 2.2 MB in 82 requests

    2.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 82 requests on a phone: images 1.7 MB (64), fonts 371 KiB (6) and stylesheets 68 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 12 images in older formats

    12 images (1.1 MB) 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.

  • 14 images below the first screen load straight away

    14 images further down the page (1.1 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.63 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.63 g of CO₂e: 75.0 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

1 to fixGoogle 9698
  • 12 text elements with low contrast

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 63 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 45 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 1 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9294
  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://centizen.com/sitemap-index.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • 3 links with vague text

    3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 160 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 160 pages on centizen.com and 13 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 157 characters

    Your meta description is 157 characters: “Centizen helps companies build AI solutions, hire vetted remote developers and ship custom software. AI consulting, sta…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Build Faster with Scalable Digital Engineering”.

  • Title: 57 characters

    Your title is a healthy 57 characters: “AI Consulting, Staffing & Software Development | Centizen”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: 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 and points crawlers to your sitemap.

AI search readiness

100
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: 6 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,563 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (4 KiB, 29 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 97 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

Google 96100
  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    10 of 12 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • 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 Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

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

  • No security.txt

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

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (centizen.com).

  • Valid certificate (91 days left)

    The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04 verifies for centizen.com and is valid for another 91 days.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://centizen.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 50 links work

    All 50 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 10 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    centizen.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

    centizen.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.

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  • Domain is 16 years old

    16 years

    centizen.com was registered in Apr 2010 through IONOS SE. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Apr 2027

    centizen.com is registered until Apr 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • 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.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 1,122 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,122 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Talk to an AI Architect” and “Request Talent Profiles”.

  • 13 calls to action

    The homepage has 13 calls to action, for example “Talk to an AI Architect →”, “Book a Discovery Call →” and “Request Profiles →”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 75 testimonial or review blocks, 3 customer or partner logos, 1 trust badge and “Trusted by 400+ Companies”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Meta Pixel.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • 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: 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
  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.perfora.net include:_spf-us.ionos.com include:_spf.kundenserver.de ~all”.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

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

  • No consent tool detected

    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.

  • 6 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
Astro
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
IONOS

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