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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 202626 issues · 72 checks

This review found 26 issues worth fixing on circit.io, 6 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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 circit.io (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. circit.io at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. circit.io at 1.2 s1.2 s
  3. circit.io at 1.8 s1.8 s
  4. circit.io at 2.4 s2.4 s
  5. circit.io at 3.0 s3.0 s
  6. circit.io at 3.6 s3.6 s
  7. circit.io at 4.3 s4.3 s
  8. circit.io at 4.9 s4.9 s

Speed

8 to fix88
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.8 s

    1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.8 s.

  • Main-thread work: 4.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Mobile performance score: 88

    88/100

    Your mobile performance score is 88 (desktop: 79). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Intercom and website-files.com and others), adding 1.3 MB and 429 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 308 KiB

    About 308 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 148 ms

    148 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 148 ms of main-thread work and 350 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.

  • website-files.com adds 102 ms

    102 ms

    website-files.com costs a phone 102 ms of main-thread work and 577 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.

  • 1,520 HTML elements

    The page has 1,520 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 26 KiB

    About 26 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 98 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    71 KiB

    8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (71 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    67 KiB

    4 images could be 67 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: 6 ms

    6 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix91
  • Time to Interactive: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Your largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “The verification network. Built to power audit intelligence.”.

  • 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.

  • 20 images without width and height

    20 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.

2 checks passed
  • Total Blocking Time: 66 ms

    66 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 66 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.008

    0.008

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.008, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.39 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.39 g of CO₂e: 46.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed
  • Page weight: 1.4 MB in 72 requests

    1.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.4 MB in 72 requests on a phone: scripts 842 KiB (34), images 255 KiB (18) and fonts 157 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

4 to fixGoogle 8593
  • Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (1 element)

    Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 4 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (1 element)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 117 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 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 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

4 to fixGoogle 9283
  • Title is long (69 characters)

    Your title is 69 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Circit | Confirmations Platform for Auditors – Verified & Independent”.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (SoftwareApplication) but with 1 problem, for example “SoftwareApplication: url is not an absolute URL ("/")”.

  • 5 links with vague text

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

  • 55 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 55 pages on circit.io and 6 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “Circit is a leading provider of audit confirmations, Open Banking verified transactions, PBC Collaboration and e-signat…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “The verification network. Built to power audit intelligence.”.

  • 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://circit.io/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,389 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (5 KiB, 25 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

3 to fix86
  • 5 pages share a title

    /, /es, /fr, /nl and /de all use the title “Circit | Confirmations Platform for Auditors – Verified & Independent”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 6 pages share a meta description

    /resources/blog and /resources/webinar-events use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 4 pages without an H1

    /platform/api-network, /platform/provider-network, /case-studies and /resources/blog 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 29 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 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.

  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 2 small tap targets

    2 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

100
  • 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 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 2,054 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 2,054 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Request a Demo”.

  • 14 calls to action

    The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Request a demo”, “Request a Demo” and “Learn more”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 194 testimonial or review blocks, 46 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Privacy and tracking

  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

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

  • 8 cookies set on arrival

    8

    Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 16 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: CookieYes

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

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
Webflow
Framework
Tailwind CSS
Analytics
Google Tag Manager

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