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elephant.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202617 issues · 96 checks
This review found 17 issues worth fixing on elephant.com, 3 of them high impact, across 96 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
95AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 105 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 108 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 110 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 135 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 132 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 132 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 134 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 141 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 136 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 135 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 136 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
elephant.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 43 KiB6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (43 KiB).
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Trust Pilot, nitrocdn.com and Adobe TypeKit), adding 297 KiB and 87 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
25 KiBAbout 25 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 98
98/100Your mobile performance score is 98. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.6 s
A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 181 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 23 ms
23 msYour server sent the HTML in 23 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.
Tap response (INP) got 30% slower for real visitors
+30%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 136 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user TTFB: 873 ms
873 msReal visitors wait 873 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
1 image without width and height
1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) got 17% slower for real visitors
+17%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
10 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 129 ms
129 msReal visitors wait 129 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.4 s
2.4 sYour largest element renders in 2.4 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Find the right coverage at the right price. We protect your…”.
Time to Interactive: 2.4 s
2.4 sThe page is fully interactive after 2.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.004
0.004The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.004, good is under 0.1).
Speed Index: 1.4 s
1.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 1.4 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.1 g of CO₂ per visit
0.12 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.12 g of CO₂e: 14.2 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: 428 KiB in 39 requests
428 KiBYour homepage downloads 428 KiB in 39 requests on a phone: fonts 122 KiB (4), scripts 108 KiB (5) and other files 86 KiB (18). 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
26 text elements with low contrast
26 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
3 images without alt text
3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
4 links without text
4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 checks passed
48 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 5 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (76 characters)
Your title is 76 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Car Insurance Company | Get Car Insurance Quotes & More - Elephant Insurance”.
Meta description is long (229 characters)
Your meta description is 229 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.elephant.com/site-map, 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.
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.
89 internal links, 27 external
The homepage links to 89 pages on elephant.com and 27 external pages.
5 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Find the right coverage at the right price.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.elephant.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: FAQPage, HowTo, InsuranceAgency, MobileApplication 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 and points crawlers to your sitemap.
AI search readiness
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.
3 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: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,634 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 pages without a meta description
/products/home-protection-plan and /products/pet-insurance have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 53 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
17 of 17 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
http:// does not redirect
http://elephant.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
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 (elephant.com).
Valid certificate (185 days left)
The certificate from Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36 verifies for elephant.com and is valid for another 185 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/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 52 links work
All 52 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 12 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
elephant.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
elephant.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 30 years old
30 yearselephant.com was registered in Aug 1996 through IONOS SE. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Aug 2027
elephant.com is registered until Aug 2027.
Content and conversion
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 1,482 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,482 words of visible text.
8 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact” and “Get a Quote”.
17 calls to action
The homepage has 17 calls to action, for example “Join the Herd”, “Contact” and “Document request”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 21 testimonial or review blocks, 1 customer or partner logo, a star rating and 4 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 100/100
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: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject 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 mx a:qualtrics.com a:o1.mailer.samanage.com ip4:208.86.168.7 ip4:68.142.181.205 include:trustpilotservice.com in…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening 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.
5 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 5 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
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager | FullStory
- Hosting
- WP Engine
Hiring
- Hiring
- 2 open roles
- Teams
- Pricing (2)
- Job board
- bamboohr
- Careers page
- www.elephant.com/careers (opens in a new tab)
Company
- Employees
- 400
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Richmond
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
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- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
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