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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202633 issues · 95 checks

This review found 33 issues worth fixing on cutera.com, 13 of them high impact, across 95 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
6.0 s4.2 sMay 16Oct 245.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20264.8 s
May 23, 20264.9 s
Jun 6, 20264.9 s
Jun 13, 20264.8 s
Jun 20, 20264.5 s
Jun 27, 20264.4 s
Jul 4, 20264.8 s
Jul 11, 20265.1 s
Jul 18, 20265.4 s
Jul 25, 20265.7 s
Aug 1, 20265.6 s
Aug 8, 20265.5 s
Aug 15, 20265.5 s
Aug 22, 20265.4 s
Sep 5, 20265.6 s
Sep 12, 20265.6 s
Sep 19, 20265.5 s
Sep 26, 20265.8 s
Oct 3, 20265.6 s
Oct 24, 20265.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
167 ms115 msMay 16Oct 24154 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026127 ms
May 23, 2026129 ms
Jun 6, 2026129 ms
Jun 13, 2026124 ms
Jun 20, 2026121 ms
Jun 27, 2026128 ms
Jul 4, 2026143 ms
Jul 11, 2026145 ms
Jul 18, 2026149 ms
Jul 25, 2026154 ms
Aug 1, 2026141 ms
Aug 8, 2026155 ms
Aug 15, 2026154 ms
Aug 22, 2026161 ms
Sep 5, 2026160 ms
Sep 12, 2026158 ms
Sep 19, 2026147 ms
Sep 26, 2026147 ms
Oct 3, 2026138 ms
Oct 24, 2026154 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

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Speed

4 to fix81
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.4 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    950 ms · 179 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (179 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 81

    81/100

    Your mobile performance score is 81. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    500 ms · 101 KiB

    About 101 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 33 KiB

    33 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    130 ms · 47 KiB

    About 47 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 130 ms faster on a phone.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 105 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 2 third-party services on the page

    2 third-party services load with your homepage (Cloudflare CDN and Adobe TypeKit), adding 68 KiB and 53 ms of main-thread time.

  • Document request latency

    19 KiB

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

  • 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    4 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 4 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 0.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 108 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 217 ms

    217 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 217 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix92
  • Speed Index: 7.6 s

    7.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    Your largest element takes 3.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Switzerland (German)”. Most of its time is element render delay (4.4 s).

  • 1 image without width and height

    1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) got 14% slower for real visitors

    +14%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 127 ms to 154 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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

    +15%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.8 s to 5.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • 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
  • Time to Interactive: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    The page is fully interactive after 3.0 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.04

    0.04

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.04, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.08 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.08 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.08 g of CO₂e: 9.2 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: 276 KiB in 12 requests

    276 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 276 KiB in 12 requests on a phone: scripts 153 KiB (5), stylesheets 52 KiB (3) and fonts 39 KiB (2). 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

4 to fixGoogle 8088
  • Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation (1 element)

    Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation: 1 element on the page fails 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.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No page language

    The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 1 image in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 20 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 23 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 20 passed and 3 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

8 to fixGoogle 4628
  • Page is set to noindex

    The robots meta tag says “noindex, nofollow”: Google is told not to list this page at all.

  • No page title

    Your page has no <title>, so Google has to invent the blue link in search results.

  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Blocked from indexing

    Google's crawler is blocked from indexing this page.

  • 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 XML sitemap

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

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 8 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 8 pages on cutera.com and 0 external pages.

2 checks passed
  • Canonical URL set

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

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • 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

2 to fix90
  • 4 pages share a title

    /us-en, /uk-en, /au-en and /ch-de all use the title “CUTERA | Bringing New Energy and New Solutions to Aesthetics”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 4 pages share a meta description

    /us-en, /uk-en, /au-en and /ch-de use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 7 pages slow to respond

    /us-en, /uk-en, /de-de, /au-en, /fr-fr and /ch-de and 1 other took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 7 internal pages checked

    We fetched 7 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 7 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 7 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'addEventListener')”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    8 of 9 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix86
  • 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 (cutera.com).

  • Valid certificate (63 days left)

    The certificate from GoDaddy.com, Inc. · Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 verifies for cutera.com and is valid for another 63 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 8 links work

    All 8 links checked from your homepage (8 internal, 0 external) answered without errors; 2 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    cutera.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

    cutera.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 23 years old

    23 years

    cutera.com was registered in Jun 2003 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jun 2031

    cutera.com is registered until Jun 2031.

Content and conversion

6 to fix25
  • 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.

  • 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 18 words

    The homepage has only about 18 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.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be cutera.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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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  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:mktomail.com include:spf.mailjet.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:amazonses.com include:_s…”.

  • 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

  • 9 cookies set on arrival

    9

    Opening the homepage sets 9 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.

  • 3 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 3 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

  • It runs WordPress 6.4.2; the current release is 7.1.4.
  • It loads jQuery 1.11.1, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).

Stack

CMS
WordPress 6.4.2
Framework
jQuery
Hosting
CloudFront

Company

Employees
231

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