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contentcolumn.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202631 issues · 85 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on contentcolumn.com, 13 of them high impact, across 85 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
64DClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
3.1 s47 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.1 s.
Reduce unused CSS
1.1 s · 116 KiBAbout 116 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: 33
33/100Your mobile performance score is 33. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 4.6 s
A phone's processor spends 4.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
250 ms · 2.0 MB119 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.0 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.2 MBAbout 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Improve image delivery
250 ms · 703 KiB11 images could be 703 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.
14 long tasks on the main thread
14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 352 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube and Google Fonts), adding 114 KiB and 26 ms of main-thread time.
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: 94 ms
94 msYour server sent the HTML in 94 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
First Contentful Paint: 9.4 s
9.4 sThe first text or image appears after 9.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 10.0 s
10.0 sYour largest element takes 10.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 24.2 s
24.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 24.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 13.9 s
13.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 13.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.0 s
1.0 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
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.
1 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.032
0.032The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.032, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.6 MB in 400 requests
3.6 MBYour homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 400 requests on a phone: scripts 2.0 MB (100), images 870 KiB (11) and fonts 495 KiB (228). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
1.03 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.03 g of CO₂e: 123.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h4, h3 → h5 and h4 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 37 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 2 failed. 1 more 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.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
42 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 42 pages on contentcolumn.com and 0 external pages.
5 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “SaaS Content Marketing Agency”.
Title: 31 characters
Your title is a healthy 31 characters: “Content Column – Content Column”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://contentcolumn.com/.
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://contentcolumn.com/wp-sitemap.xml.
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.
1 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.
Other pages
10 pages without a meta description
/services, /saas-content-strategy, /saas-content-writing, /saas-seo, /saas-content-audit and /saas-link-building and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
5 pages without an H1
/services, /saas-content-strategy, /saas-content-audit, /saas-public-relations and /blog-2 have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
6 pages slow to respond
/services, /saas-content-writing, /saas-seo, /saas-content-audit, /saas-link-building and /saas-public-relations took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
10 internal pages checked
We fetched 10 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 10 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 10 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
6 broken images
6 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://contentcolumn.com/.
1 small tap target
1 of 5 tappable elements near the top of the page is 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 “Mixed Content: The page at 'https://contentcolumn.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure font 'http://c…”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Mixed content”).
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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 (contentcolumn.com).
Valid certificate (177 days left)
The certificate from SSL Corporation · SSL.com TLS Issuing RSA CA R1 verifies for contentcolumn.com and is valid for another 177 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://contentcolumn.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 12 links work
All 12 links checked from your homepage (12 internal, 0 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
contentcolumn.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
contentcolumn.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 7 years old
7 yearscontentcolumn.com was registered in Mar 2019 through NameCheap, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Mar 2027
contentcolumn.com is registered until Mar 2027.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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.
Only about 129 words
The homepage has only about 129 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
2 checks passed
8 calls to action
The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Learn more”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 62 testimonial or review blocks, 2 customer or partner logos and a star rating.
Email authentication
No DMARC policy
contentcolumn.com 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.
Email authentication score: 45/100
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.
2 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:198.187.29.18 ip4:198.187.29.22 include:spf.web-hosting.com +a +mx +ip4:198.54.126.229 +ip4:198.54.126.240 +…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “default”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (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.
5 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Upkeep, stack and company
- 5 plugins are behind their latest release.premium-addons-for-elementor 4.11.45 → 4.11.117 · wp-live-chat-support 10.0.17 → 10.0.19 · elementor 3.32.5 → 4.3.6 · essential-addons-for-elementor-lite 6.3.3 → 6.8.8 · elementskit-lite 3.7.5 → 4.1.0
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 7.1.4
- Framework
- React
- Hosting
- Namecheap
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