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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202647 issues · 110 checks
This review found 47 issues worth fixing on cmta.com, 21 of them high impact, across 110 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
78CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.8 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 78 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 76 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 76 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 76 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 81 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 71 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 72 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 81 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 82 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 81 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 71 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 71 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
Speed
Improve image delivery
32.6 s · 7.2 MB28 images could be 7.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 32.6 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
8.3 s · 1.7 MB56 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.7 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.7 s · 529 KiBAbout 529 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
2.7 s5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.7 s.
Reduce unused CSS
1.1 s · 243 KiBAbout 243 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 64
64/100Your mobile performance score is 64. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
FontAwesome CDN adds 24 ms
24 msFontAwesome CDN costs a phone 24 ms of main-thread work and 309 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 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and Hotjar and others), adding 936 KiB and 358 ms of main-thread time.
Legacy JavaScript
200 ms · 23 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.
7 long tasks on the main thread
7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 86 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 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.
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Main-thread work: 1.3 s
A phone's processor spends 1.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 658 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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: 67.7 s
67.7 sYour largest element takes 67.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Time to Interactive: 67.7 s
67.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 67.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 3.5 s
3.5 sThe first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Speed Index: 5.2 s
5.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
28 images without width and height
28 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-8%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 78 ms to 71 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 1.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user LCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 71 ms
71 msReal visitors wait 71 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 109 ms
109 msScripts block the page for only 109 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.011
0.011The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.011, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 15.2 MB in 86 requests
15.2 MBYour homepage downloads 15.2 MB in 86 requests on a phone: images 13.6 MB (43), scripts 1,008 KiB (18) and fonts 358 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image over 500 KB
display_ASHRAE-L_1.png weighs 836 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
14 images below the first screen load straight away
14 images further down the page (1.7 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
9 images in older formats
9 images (1.6 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.
About 4.3 g of CO₂ per visit
4.32 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.32 g of CO₂e: 518.2 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 are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
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.
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (1 element)
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
Hidden but focusable
12 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (2 elements)
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
<html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)
<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)
Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
5 images without alt text
5 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
22 links without text
22 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
No page language
The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.
Headings should not be empty (4 elements)
Headings should not be empty: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored (1 element)
Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h6, h2 → h6 and h2 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
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46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 12 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (17 characters)
Your title is only 17 characters: “CMTA | CMTA, Inc.”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.cmta.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
10 links with vague text
10 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.
122 internal links, 6 external
The homepage links to 122 pages on cmta.com and 6 external pages.
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One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Building Science Leadership”.
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.
AI search readiness
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.
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.
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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 (436 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
12 pages without a meta description
/news, /expertise, /expertise/consulting, /expertise/infrastructure-modernization, /expertise/infrastructure-modernization/performance-contracting and /expertise/infrastructure-modernization/performance-design-build and 6 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 48 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
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
36 small tap targets
36 of 77 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “e(...).ready(...) is not a function”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
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Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
http:// does not redirect
http://cmta.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.campfir3.com/ (502).
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.
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Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (cmta.com).
Valid certificate (179 days left)
The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01 verifies for cmta.com and is valid for another 179 days.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
cmta.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
cmta.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.
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Domain is 31 years old
31 yearscmta.com was registered in Jul 1995 through DNC Holdings, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jul 2029
cmta.com is registered until Jul 2029.
Content and conversion
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 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 460 words of copy
The homepage carries about 460 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: “CONTACT” and “CONSULTING ENGINEERING LEARN MORE”.
15 calls to action
The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Consulting Engineering Learn More” and “Infrastructure Modernization Learn More”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics, Hotjar, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 90/100
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 with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 mx ip4:74.143.205.32 ip4:23.96.61.76 ip4:50.254.184.153 a:ba.cmta.com a:FRUSSMTP001.spendvision.com include:2311…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
13 cookies set on arrival
13Opening the homepage sets 13 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
26 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 26 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.
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 | Hotjar
- Hosting
- AWS
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