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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 23 October 202637 issues · 82 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on circadence.com, 13 of them high impact, across 82 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

Full-page screenshot of circadence.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. circadence.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. circadence.com at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. circadence.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  4. circadence.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  5. circadence.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  6. circadence.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  7. circadence.com at 3.5 s3.5 s
  8. circadence.com at 4.0 s4.0 s

Speed

12 to fix32
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    5.0 s · 1.4 MB

    About 1.4 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.4 s

    18 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.4 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 32

    32/100

    Your mobile performance score is 32 (desktop: 86). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 6.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 6.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.4 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 CDN, YouTube and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 3.5 MB and 1.8 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    750 ms · 204 KiB

    About 204 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google CDN adds 784 ms

    784 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 784 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB 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.

  • YouTube adds 695 ms

    695 ms

    YouTube costs a phone 695 ms of main-thread work and 970 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    450 ms · 176 KiB

    13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (176 KiB).

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 286 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Vimeo adds 53 ms

    53 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 53 ms of main-thread work and 620 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.

  • site.com adds 24 ms

    24 ms

    site.com costs a phone 24 ms of main-thread work and 680 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 85 KiB

    5 images could be 85 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 21 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 86 but mobile only 32. 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.

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  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix40
  • First Contentful Paint: 10.9 s

    10.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 10.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 16.2 s

    16.2 s

    Your largest element takes 16.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “NEXT GENERATION AI CYBER PLATFORM AI-Powered Cyber Ranges F…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 25.9 s

    25.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 25.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.9 s

    10.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.2 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 5 images without width and height

    5 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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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix64
  • Page weight: 4.8 MB in 116 requests

    4.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.8 MB in 116 requests on a phone: scripts 3.3 MB (46), other files 392 KiB (18) and stylesheets 371 KiB (20). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    Computer-Only4-923c1304.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 1.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.36 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.36 g of CO₂e: 163.7 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

5 to fixGoogle 8594
  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • 16 images without alt text

    16 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 2 form fields without a label

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

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

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

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  • 51 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 4 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 8595
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 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.

  • 57 internal links, 14 external

    The homepage links to 57 pages on circadence.com and 14 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 105 characters

    Your meta description is 105 characters: “Train, test, and prepare cyber teams through immersive simulations and hands-on operational environments.”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “AI-Powered Cyber Ranges for cyber readiness”.

  • Title: 55 characters

    Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Circadence - AI Cyber Range & Cyber Readiness Solutions”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://circadence.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://circadence.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://circadence.com/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.

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  • 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 (1,079 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 15 pages without a meta description

    https://circadence.com/rangegpt, https://circadence.com/range-conductor, https://circadence.com/project-ares, https://circadence.com/security-immersion-workshops, https://circadence.com/custom-content-development and https://circadence.com/range-design-engineering and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 14 pages without an H1

    https://circadence.com/rangegpt, https://circadence.com/range-conductor, https://circadence.com/project-ares, https://circadence.com/security-immersion-workshops, https://circadence.com/custom-content-development and https://circadence.com/range-design-engineering and 8 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 5488
  • 7 third-party cookies

    7 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://circadence.my.site.com/ESWProjectAresChatprod1756490376050/assets/styles/bootstrap…”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    5 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix75
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • 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.

  • A 8-field form

    Your longest form asks for 8 fields (3 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

  • No opening hours

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

  • 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 713 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 713 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: “Request a Demo”.

  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Request a Demo” and “Learn More”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 6 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads 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.

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies, 3 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.

  • 19 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 19 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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