cloudacademy.com website review

About 1,012 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.3 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 42. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Cookiebot and others), adding 1.4 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 900 ms.

Google CDN costs a phone 583 ms of main-thread work and 741 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 371 ms of main-thread work and 374 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.

16 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 365 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

A phone's processor spends 3.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 2,224 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 62 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 280 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (37 KiB).

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.

Real visitors wait 4.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 4.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 14.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We use cookies to enhance your experience with personalised…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 16.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.4 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 237 ms to 289 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.2 s to 4.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.5 MB in 49 requests on a phone: scripts 2.0 MB (25), other files 402 KiB (13) and fonts 75 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.72 g of CO₂e: 86.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Google's crawler is blocked from indexing this page.

Your title is only 20 characters: “QA Learning Platform”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

Your meta description is 232 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

Structured data found (Organization) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: logo is not an absolute URL ("ca_logo.svg")”.

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

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

The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

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 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 401 ()”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

Opening https://cloudacademy.com goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.

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

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

qa.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

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

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 3 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

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.

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

Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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