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curiousfaction.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202619 issues · 76 checks
This review found 19 issues worth fixing on curiousfaction.com, 5 of them high impact, across 76 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
84BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s15 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 86
86/100Your mobile performance score is 86. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Font display
650 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 650 ms).
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 68 KiBAbout 68 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
260 ms · 71 KiBAbout 71 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 260 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
200 ms · 55 KiB39 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (55 KiB).
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts and Google Analytics), adding 224 KiB and 157 ms of main-thread time.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 97 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.6 s
A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 288 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 44 ms
44 msYour server sent the HTML in 44 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.9 s
3.9 sYour largest element takes 3.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We are a design agency providing Branding, UX and Digital M…”.
First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s
2.0 sThe first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 4.0 s
4.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 4.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
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.
3 checks passed
Speed Index: 3.1 s
3.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.1 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 79 ms
79 msScripts block the page for only 79 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.036
0.036The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.036, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (43 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit
0.22 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.22 g of CO₂e: 26.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Page weight: 788 KiB in 46 requests
788 KiBYour homepage downloads 788 KiB in 46 requests on a phone: fonts 294 KiB (7), scripts 281 KiB (19) and images 99 KiB (5). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
All page content should be contained by landmarks (10 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 10 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.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 5 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
35 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 37 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 35 passed and 2 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://curiousfaction.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at curiousfaction.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
5 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 5 pages on curiousfaction.com and 0 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 97 characters
Your meta description is 97 characters: “We are a design agency providing Branding, UX and Digital Marketing solutions for SAAS companies.”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “We are a design agency providing Branding, UX and Digital Marketing solutions for SAAS companies.”.
Title: 51 characters
Your title is a healthy 51 characters: “Curious Faction - Branding - UX - Digital Marketing”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.curiousfaction.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: ImageObject, Organization, Person, WebPage and WebSite.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
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
There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (520 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Best practices
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
5 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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 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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (curiousfaction.com).
Valid certificate (75 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for curiousfaction.com and is valid for another 75 days.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://curiousfaction.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 1 links work
All 1 link checked from your homepage (1 internal, 0 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
curiousfaction.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
curiousfaction.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 8 years old
8 yearscuriousfaction.com was registered in Apr 2018 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Apr 2027
curiousfaction.com is registered until Apr 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 calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Only about 194 words
The homepage has only about 194 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
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 2 email links.
Email authentication
No DMARC policy
curiousfaction.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 include:zoho.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before 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.
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.
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
- It runs WordPress 7.1.3; the current release is 7.1.4.
- 2 plugins are behind their latest release.stripe-payments 2.0.47 → 2.1.4 · elementor 3.19.0 → 4.3.6
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 7.1.3
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Hostinger
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