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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202636 issues · 103 checks

This review found 36 issues worth fixing on cfp.net, 15 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
2.1 s1.7 sMay 9Oct 242.0 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20261.7 s
May 16, 20261.7 s
May 23, 20261.8 s
May 30, 20261.8 s
Jun 6, 20261.8 s
Jun 13, 20261.8 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.8 s
Jul 4, 20261.8 s
Jul 11, 20261.8 s
Jul 18, 20261.8 s
Jul 25, 20261.8 s
Aug 1, 20261.8 s
Aug 8, 20261.8 s
Aug 15, 20261.8 s
Aug 22, 20261.8 s
Aug 29, 20261.8 s
Sep 5, 20261.8 s
Sep 12, 20261.9 s
Sep 19, 20261.9 s
Sep 26, 20262.0 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20262.0 s
Oct 24, 20262.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
234 ms117 msMay 9Oct 24220 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026132 ms
May 16, 2026130 ms
May 23, 2026137 ms
May 30, 2026145 ms
Jun 6, 2026154 ms
Jun 13, 2026168 ms
Jun 20, 2026177 ms
Jun 27, 2026178 ms
Jul 4, 2026178 ms
Jul 11, 2026177 ms
Jul 18, 2026177 ms
Jul 25, 2026174 ms
Aug 1, 2026180 ms
Aug 8, 2026191 ms
Aug 15, 2026204 ms
Aug 22, 2026213 ms
Aug 29, 2026219 ms
Sep 5, 2026214 ms
Sep 12, 2026216 ms
Sep 19, 2026217 ms
Sep 26, 2026215 ms
Oct 3, 2026216 ms
Oct 10, 2026213 ms
Oct 17, 2026215 ms
Oct 24, 2026220 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

10 to fix38
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.4 s · 588 KiB

    About 588 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.0 s

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.0 s.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.0 s · 97 KiB

    6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (97 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 38

    38/100

    Your mobile performance score is 38. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 4.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 18 long tasks on the main thread

    18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 480 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 318 KiB

    5 images could be 318 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 89 KiB

    About 89 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    350 ms · 30 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 30 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

  • Optanon adds 121 ms

    121 ms

    Optanon costs a phone 121 ms of main-thread work and 304 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.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Optanon and Google CDN and others), adding 576 KiB and 414 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    100 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Minify CSS

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

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

Core Web Vitals

8 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: 18.0 s

    18.0 s

    Your largest element takes 18.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Lauren Williams, CFP®”.

  • Time to Interactive: 19.1 s

    19.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 19.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.6 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.0 s

    6.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user INP: 205 ms

    205 ms

    Real visitors wait 205 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 66% slower for real visitors

    +66%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 132 ms to 220 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 17% slower for real visitors

    +17%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

5 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.02

    0.02

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 680 ms

    680 ms

    Real visitors wait 680 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.033

    0.033

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.033, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

3 to fix50
  • Page weight: 4.6 MB in 64 requests

    4.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.6 MB in 64 requests on a phone: media 2.2 MB (6), scripts 1.2 MB (17) and images 764 KiB (19). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 6 images in older formats

    6 images (1.4 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.

  • 2 images far larger than shown

    177 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example fox-and-friends-oct-2026.png at 400 px wide, shown at 59 px. Resized copies would save about 177 KiB.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.29 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.29 g of CO₂e: 155.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9294
  • Form elements should have a visible label (1 element)

    Form elements should have a visible label: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (11 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 4 links without text

    4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 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.

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 20 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 47 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: 47 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 8591
  • Meta description is long (222 characters)

    Your meta description is 222 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 2 links with vague text

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

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 132 internal links, 21 external

    The homepage links to 132 pages on cfp.net and 21 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “The Standard of Excellence”.

  • Title: 64 characters

    Your title is a healthy 64 characters: “CFP Board | Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.cfp.net/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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.cfp.net/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • 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.

3 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 (895 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 61 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    39 of 44 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix86
  • 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.

  • 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 X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 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.

5 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (cfp.net).

  • Valid certificate (83 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for cfp.net and is valid for another 83 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://cfp.net redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 56 links work

    All 56 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 16 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

1 to fix
  • Domain expires in 16 days

    cfp.net 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.

  • No CAA record

    cfp.net 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

    cfp.net'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.

1 checks passed
  • Domain is 27 years old

    27 years

    cfp.net was registered in Nov 1998 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

Content and conversion

1 to fix94
  • 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.

  • 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 529 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 529 words of visible text.

7 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “JOIN” and “Contact”.

  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Join”, “Contact” and “Learn More”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (3 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 15 testimonial or review blocks and 2 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Email authentication

2 to fix40
  • No DMARC policy

    cfp.net 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.

1 checks passed
  • 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 include:dispatch-us.ppe-hosted.com -all”.

Privacy and tracking

  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 7 cookies set on arrival

    7

    Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 8 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: OneTrust

    A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It loads jQuery 3.2.1, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Founded
1985

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