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drug-dev.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202636 issues · 104 checks
This review found 36 issues worth fixing on drug-dev.com, 17 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
76CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 80 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 84 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 78 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 80 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 69 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 65 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 82 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 72 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 63 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 74 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 78 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
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
4.2 s · 2.9 MB70 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.9 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
4.0 s · 459 KiBAbout 459 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.0 s faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
1.3 s · 1.4 MB19 images could be 1.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.3 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s11 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 56
56/100Your mobile performance score is 56 (desktop: 80). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
5 third-party services on the page
5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.2 MB and 756 ms of main-thread time.
Google CDN adds 520 ms
520 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 520 ms of main-thread work and 767 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Reduce unused CSS
290 ms · 46 KiBAbout 46 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 290 ms faster on a phone.
8 long tasks on the main thread
8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 155 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Minify JavaScript
6 KiB6 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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.
Minify CSS
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Real-user FCP: 3.4 s
3.4 sReal visitors see the first content after 3.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 2.0 s
2.0 sReal visitors wait 2.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 8.4 s
8.4 sThe first text or image appears after 8.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 15.7 s
15.7 sYour largest element takes 15.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Drug Development”.
Time to Interactive: 16.2 s
16.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 16.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.4 s
8.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Real-user LCP: 3.4 s
3.4 sReal visitors wait 3.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
22 images without width and height
22 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 80 ms to 78 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+8%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.1 s to 3.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
4 checks passed
Real-user INP: 77 ms
77 msReal visitors wait 77 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.08
0.08For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.08 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Total Blocking Time: 135 ms
135 msScripts block the page for only 135 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.4 MB in 89 requests
4.4 MBYour homepage downloads 4.4 MB in 89 requests on a phone: images 2.7 MB (42), scripts 1.1 MB (23) and other files 352 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
31 images in older formats
31 images (2.4 MB) are 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.
28 images below the first screen load straight away
28 images further down the page (1.9 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
8 images far larger than shown
405 KiB8 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 0ea33782624cbf21bfd5e8ab257829de0f68b279cc247b9dea338366200e at 390 px wide, shown at 110 px. Resized copies would save about 405 KiB.
About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.25 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.25 g of CO₂e: 149.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
1 button without a name
1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
12 tap targets too small
12 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
22 images without alt text
22 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
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.
34 links without text
34 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
7 form fields without a label
7 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 checks passed
39 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: 39 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (68 characters)
Your title is 68 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Drug Development & Delivery - The Latest Methods in Drug Development”.
184 internal links, 23 external
The homepage links to 184 pages on drug-dev.com and 23 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 142 characters
Your meta description is 142 characters: “Drug Development & Delivery is a print and online publisher that presents the latest scientific methods in drug develop…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Don’t miss out on this exclusive content!”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://drug-dev.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://drug-dev.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,559 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (12 KiB, 55 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page slow to respond
/issues/october-2026 took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 137 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 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to set referrer policy: The value '' is not one of 'no-referrer', 'no-referrer-when-downgrade', 'origin', 'origi…”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
22 of 25 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 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 (drug-dev.com).
Valid certificate (35 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR1 verifies for drug-dev.com and is valid for another 35 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://drug-dev.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 60 links work
All 60 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 20 external) answered without errors; 2 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
drug-dev.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
drug-dev.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 15 years old
15 yearsdrug-dev.com was registered in Nov 2010 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Nov 2030
drug-dev.com is registered until Nov 2030.
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 social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 2,486 words of copy
The homepage carries about 2,486 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
5 calls to action
The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Sign Up for a free Subscription”, “Contact us” and “Analytical Testing e-book 2025”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be drug-dev.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.
Email authentication score: 60/100
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.
1 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:edgepilot.com ~all”.
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.
7 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
- It loads jQuery 1.11.1, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 7.1.3
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
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