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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 24 October 202613 issues · 84 checks

This review found 13 issues worth fixing on cottsystems.com, 0 of them high impact, across 84 checks. 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

Site score

92A

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Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.6 s558 msMay 2Oct 17702 ms
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20261.3 s
May 9, 20261.4 s
May 16, 20261.4 s
May 23, 20261.1 s
May 30, 2026961 ms
Jun 6, 2026927 ms
Jun 13, 2026892 ms
Jun 20, 20261.1 s
Jun 27, 20261.2 s
Jul 4, 20261.1 s
Jul 11, 20261.2 s
Jul 18, 20261.2 s
Jul 25, 20261.1 s
Aug 1, 20261.2 s
Aug 8, 20261.1 s
Aug 15, 20261.2 s
Aug 22, 20261.2 s
Aug 29, 20261.3 s
Sep 5, 20261.5 s
Sep 12, 20261.4 s
Sep 19, 20261.3 s
Sep 26, 2026836 ms
Oct 3, 2026723 ms
Oct 10, 2026675 ms
Oct 17, 2026702 ms
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
243 ms50 msJun 20Oct 1772 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Jun 20, 2026221 ms
Jul 4, 202698 ms
Jul 25, 2026221 ms
Aug 1, 2026221 ms
Aug 8, 2026187 ms
Aug 15, 2026187 ms
Aug 22, 2026205 ms
Aug 29, 2026204 ms
Sep 5, 2026212 ms
Sep 12, 2026173 ms
Sep 19, 2026129 ms
Sep 26, 202692 ms
Oct 3, 202679 ms
Oct 10, 202675 ms
Oct 17, 202672 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. cottsystems.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. cottsystems.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. cottsystems.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. cottsystems.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. cottsystems.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. cottsystems.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. cottsystems.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. cottsystems.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

cottsystems.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

1 to fix92

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    450 ms · 73 KiB

    About 73 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare and cloudflareinsights.com and others), adding 199 KiB and 124 ms of main-thread time.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 77 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    21 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    8 KiB

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

  • 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.

3 checks passed

  • Mobile performance score: 92

    92/100

    Your mobile performance score is 92 (desktop: 100). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 0.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 107 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

1 to fix100

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    Your largest element takes 3.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Cott Systems has kept land and court records for local gove…”.

12 checks passed

  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Real visitors wait 0.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 504 ms

    504 ms

    Real visitors wait 504 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 54% faster for real visitors

    -54%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 221 ms to 72 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 49% faster for real visitors

    -49%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 0.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Time to Interactive: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    The page is fully interactive after 3.3 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.5 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Speed Index: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 1.5 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 27 ms

    27 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 27 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100

  • About 0.09 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.09 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.09 g of CO₂e: 11.1 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: 335 KiB in 14 requests

    335 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 335 KiB in 14 requests on a phone: scripts 198 KiB (3), fonts 113 KiB (4) and HTML 9 KiB (1). 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

1 to fixGoogle 10099

  • 25 links without text

    25 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

2 checks passed

  • Every image has alt text

    All 1 image in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 44 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 0 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 10080

  • Title is short (12 characters)

    Your title is only 12 characters: “Cott Systems”. 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 social preview image

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

  • No XML sitemap

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

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • 90 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 90 pages on cottsystems.com and 0 external pages.

4 checks passed

  • Meta description: 153 characters

    Your meta description is 153 characters: “Recording, indexing, imaging and court case management software for county recorders, registers of deeds and clerks of …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “One system for everything your office records.”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

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.

  • 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.

  • Opted out of AI training for 5 crawlers

    robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

2 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 (932 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 29 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 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.

  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 10093

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

2 checks passed

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    34 of 36 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix94

  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • No security.txt

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

7 checks passed

  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (cottsystems.com).

  • Valid certificate (50 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for cottsystems.com and is valid for another 50 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://cottsystems.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 30 links work

    All 30 links checked from your homepage (30 internal, 0 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    cottsystems.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

    cottsystems.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 29 years old

    29 years

    cottsystems.com was registered in May 1997 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until May 2030

    cottsystems.com is registered until May 2030.

Content and conversion

1 to fix90

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 669 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 669 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: “Talk to sales”.

  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Call Cott Systems at 800-234-2688”, “Talk to sales” and “Talk to an account executive”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 5 phone links and 0 email links.

Email authentication

90

  • 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.

3 checks passed

  • 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 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:app.teamsupport.com ip4:209.143.76.139 include:_spf.salesforce.com in…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix

  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

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

  • 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.

  • 4 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
Astro
Analytics
Google Analytics

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