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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 202627 issues · 80 checks
This review found 27 issues worth fixing on certain.com, 12 of them high impact, across 80 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
75CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 4.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 4.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 6.8 s |
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
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
3.9 s · 582 KiB11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (582 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.8 s · 577 KiBAbout 577 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.8 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
2.6 s3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.6 s.
Mobile performance score: 54
54/100Your mobile performance score is 54 (desktop: 79). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
7 third-party services on the page
7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, rozz.site and IPONWEB and others), adding 1.0 MB and 473 ms of main-thread time.
Main-thread work: 2.2 s
A phone's processor spends 2.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 802 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
rozz.site adds 163 ms
163 msrozz.site costs a phone 163 ms of main-thread work and 561 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.
8 long tasks on the main thread
8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 203 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
160 ms · 14 KiBAbout 14 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 160 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
18 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 18 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 79 but mobile only 54. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 10.1 s
10.1 sYour largest element takes 10.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Certain captures buying signals from every attendee interac…”. Most of its time is element render delay (6.2 s).
Speed Index: 12.8 s
12.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 12.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 5.9 s
5.9 sThe first text or image appears after 5.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 11.1 s
11.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 11.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 46% slower for real visitors
+46%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.6 s to 6.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
10 images without width and height
10 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
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Total Blocking Time: 168 ms
168 msScripts block the page for only 168 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit
0.45 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.45 g of CO₂e: 53.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.6 MB in 36 requests
1.6 MBYour homepage downloads 1.6 MB in 36 requests on a phone: scripts 1.3 MB (6), fonts 262 KiB (7) and stylesheets 23 KiB (3). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
7 text elements with low contrast
7 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 (26 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 26 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)
Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
1 checks passed
36 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 40 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 36 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores 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.
Only 0 internal links
The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 146 characters
Your meta description is 146 characters: “Turn every attendee interaction into a high-fidelity sales signal. Certain is the AI-powered event intelligence platfor…”.
Title: 48 characters
Your title is a healthy 48 characters: “Certain — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://certain.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization 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.certain.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Most text only appears after JavaScript runs
0%A phone browser shows 469 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 0. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.
Parts of the site are closed to 3 AI crawlers
Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User) and Perplexity (PerplexityBot) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.
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Organization data: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description; contact details would complete it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (34 KiB, 269 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was 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.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
5 of 5 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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 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 (certain.com).
Valid certificate (49 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for certain.com and is valid for another 49 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://certain.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
certain.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
certain.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 yearscertain.com was registered in Oct 1995 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Oct 2027
certain.com is registered until Oct 2027.
Content and conversion
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.
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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 469 words of copy
The homepage carries about 469 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Start now”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Email authentication
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.
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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.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:aspmx.pardot.com include:sendgrid.net inclu…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector2”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.
8 cookies set on arrival
8Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies (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.
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.
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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