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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202621 issues · 96 checks

This review found 21 issues worth fixing on counsol.com, 4 of them high impact, across 96 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.3 s1.0 sApr 18Oct 31.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20261.3 s
Apr 25, 20261.2 s
May 2, 20261.2 s
May 9, 20261.2 s
May 16, 20261.2 s
May 23, 20261.2 s
May 30, 20261.2 s
Jun 6, 20261.2 s
Jun 13, 20261.2 s
Jun 20, 20261.2 s
Jun 27, 20261.2 s
Jul 4, 20261.2 s
Jul 11, 20261.2 s
Jul 18, 20261.2 s
Jul 25, 20261.1 s
Aug 1, 20261.1 s
Aug 8, 20261.1 s
Aug 15, 20261.1 s
Aug 22, 20261.1 s
Aug 29, 20261.1 s
Sep 5, 20261.1 s
Sep 12, 20261.1 s
Sep 19, 20261.1 s
Sep 26, 20261.1 s
Oct 3, 20261.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
272 ms259 msApr 18Oct 3261 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 2026268 ms
Apr 25, 2026264 ms
May 2, 2026262 ms
May 9, 2026261 ms
May 16, 2026261 ms
May 23, 2026262 ms
May 30, 2026263 ms
Jun 6, 2026264 ms
Jun 13, 2026263 ms
Jun 20, 2026263 ms
Jun 27, 2026266 ms
Jul 4, 2026269 ms
Jul 11, 2026269 ms
Jul 18, 2026268 ms
Jul 25, 2026266 ms
Aug 1, 2026268 ms
Aug 8, 2026270 ms
Aug 15, 2026270 ms
Aug 22, 2026270 ms
Aug 29, 2026264 ms
Sep 5, 2026262 ms
Sep 12, 2026261 ms
Sep 19, 2026260 ms
Sep 26, 2026261 ms
Oct 3, 2026261 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

6 to fix66
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    2.3 s · 555 KiB

    34 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (555 KiB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    900 ms · 119 KiB

    About 119 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 66

    66/100

    Your mobile performance score is 66 (desktop: 98). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    950 ms

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 950 ms.

  • Improve image delivery

    450 ms · 110 KiB

    11 images could be 110 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 77 KiB

    About 77 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and capterra.com), adding 165 KiB and 162 ms of main-thread time.

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 8 KiB

    8 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 110 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Document request latency

    14 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 98 but mobile only 66. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 0.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 177 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 29 ms

    29 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 29 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.4 s

    6.4 s

    Your largest element takes 6.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Personalized. Efficient. Complete. Online practice manageme…”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.4 s

    3.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.9 s

    5.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 6.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 268 ms to 261 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • 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: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 116 ms

    116 ms

    Real visitors wait 116 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • 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: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 490 ms

    490 ms

    Real visitors wait 490 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 15% faster for real visitors

    -15%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 57 ms

    57 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 57 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (42 KiB) is 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 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.21 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.21 g of CO₂e: 24.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 743 KiB in 39 requests

    743 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 743 KiB in 39 requests on a phone: images 363 KiB (30), scripts 272 KiB (4) and stylesheets 84 KiB (2). That is a lean page.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9796
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (9 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 27 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 22 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 24 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 22 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

3 to fixGoogle 9290
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No XML sitemap

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

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 30 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 30 pages on counsol.com and 6 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 147 characters

    Your meta description is 147 characters: “Personalized. Efficient. Complete. Online practice management exactly the way you want it. For Counselors, Therapists, …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Personalized. Efficient. Complete.Online practice management exactly the way you want it.”.

  • Title: 43 characters

    Your title is a healthy 43 characters: “Practice Management Software for Counselors”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • 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

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 1 crawler

    robots.txt blocks ClaudeBot, 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 (405 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix83
  • 2 linked pages hidden from search

    /site/legal/terms and /site/legal/privacy are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 3 pages without a meta description

    /blog, /site/legal/terms and /site/legal/privacy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page without an H1

    /blog has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    /site/access/login and /tour have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 12 internal pages checked

    We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 12 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 a title

    All 12 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    13 of 14 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • HTTP/1.1 only

    The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

  • 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 (counsol.com).

  • Valid certificate (84 days left)

    The certificate from DigiCert Inc · Thawte TLS RSA CA G1 verifies for counsol.com and is valid for another 84 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

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

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • All 19 links work

    All 19 links checked from your homepage (13 internal, 6 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

1 to fix
  • Domain expires in 56 days

    counsol.com is registered until Dec 2026. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.

  • DNSSEC is off

    counsol.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 14 years old

    14 years

    counsol.com was registered in Dec 2011 through NameCheap, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only thawte.com, digicert.com and symantec.com to issue certificates for counsol.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

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 372 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 372 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: “Learn More” and “Try Us Free”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Contact” and “Free Trial”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks, 2 customer or partner logos and 4 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

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 ip4:169.55.3.128/28 ip4:169.61.190.16/28 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:servers.mcsv.net -all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “k1”), 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.

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 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.

  • 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.

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