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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 30 October 202619 issues · 92 checks

This review found 19 issues worth fixing on escoffier.edu, 5 of them high impact, across 92 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
2.6 s1.8 sMay 9Oct 242.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.0 s
May 16, 20261.9 s
May 23, 20261.9 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.9 s
Jun 13, 20261.9 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20262.0 s
Jul 11, 20262.0 s
Jul 18, 20262.1 s
Jul 25, 20262.1 s
Aug 1, 20262.2 s
Aug 8, 20262.2 s
Aug 15, 20262.2 s
Aug 22, 20262.3 s
Aug 29, 20262.3 s
Sep 5, 20262.4 s
Sep 12, 20262.4 s
Sep 19, 20262.5 s
Sep 26, 20262.5 s
Oct 3, 20262.5 s
Oct 10, 20262.5 s
Oct 17, 20262.4 s
Oct 24, 20262.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
185 ms126 msMay 9Oct 24175 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026141 ms
May 16, 2026144 ms
May 23, 2026145 ms
May 30, 2026145 ms
Jun 6, 2026147 ms
Jun 13, 2026147 ms
Jun 20, 2026144 ms
Jun 27, 2026145 ms
Jul 4, 2026144 ms
Jul 11, 2026139 ms
Jul 18, 2026137 ms
Jul 25, 2026133 ms
Aug 1, 2026133 ms
Aug 8, 2026134 ms
Aug 15, 2026141 ms
Aug 22, 2026148 ms
Aug 29, 2026155 ms
Sep 5, 2026164 ms
Sep 12, 2026169 ms
Sep 19, 2026173 ms
Sep 26, 2026176 ms
Oct 3, 2026178 ms
Oct 10, 2026177 ms
Oct 17, 2026177 ms
Oct 24, 2026175 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

6 to fix57
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.4 s

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

  • 4,848 HTML elements

    The page has 4,848 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 57

    57/100

    Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    600 ms · 141 KiB

    About 141 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 379 ms

    379 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 379 ms of main-thread work and 374 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, cdn-cookieyes.com and JSDelivr CDN and others), adding 647 KiB and 480 ms of main-thread time.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 203 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    140 ms · 43 KiB

    About 43 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 140 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 17 KiB

    6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (17 KiB).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 10 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify JavaScript

    10 KiB

    10 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.

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  • Server response: 18 ms

    18 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 18 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.0 s

    10.0 s

    Your largest element takes 10.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Our site uses cookies that help us and third-party partners…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.0 s

    10.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 24% slower for real visitors

    +24%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 141 ms to 175 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 23% slower for real visitors

    +23%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Speed Index: 5.5 s

    5.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 388 ms

    388 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 388 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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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: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 129 ms

    129 ms

    Real visitors wait 129 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.01

    0.01

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 569 ms

    569 ms

    Real visitors wait 569 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 6.2 MB in 113 requests

    6.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 6.2 MB in 113 requests on a phone: media 4.8 MB (1), scripts 642 KiB (40) and fonts 324 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.76 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.76 g of CO₂e: 210.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • 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

Google 100100
2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 27 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 0 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • 149 internal links, 53 external

    The homepage links to 149 pages on escoffier.edu and 53 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 152 characters

    Your meta description is 152 characters: “Ranked the #1 best culinary school in the USA. Get your degree or diploma online in the culinary arts, pastry arts, pla…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Your Culinary Future Starts Here”.

  • Title: 59 characters

    Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts | Culinary School”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.escoffier.edu/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: CollegeOrUniversity 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.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.escoffier.edu/sitemap_index.xml.

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.

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 (2,923 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 94 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 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    20 of 22 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
  • http:// does not redirect

    http://escoffier.edu does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.

  • 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 (escoffier.edu).

  • Valid certificate (81 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for escoffier.edu and is valid for another 81 days.

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • 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

    escoffier.edu 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.

Content and conversion

1 to fix94
  • 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 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 2,600 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 2,600 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: “Call +1 855-955-7555” and “Request Info”.

  • 16 calls to action

    The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Request Information”, “Request InformationRequest Info” and “Apply Now”.

  • 4 short forms

    4 short forms (5 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 33 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 6 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Opening hours shown

    Your opening hours are on the homepage.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Email authentication

85
  • Email authentication score: 85/100

    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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  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:52.1.141.23 ip4:34.198.116.82 ip4:34.205.83.177 ip4:167.89.16.8 ip4:141.193.33.2 include:_spf.google.com inc…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 11 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: CookieYes

    A consent management tool (CookieYes) loads with the page.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.4.

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
WooCommerce
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Founded
2010

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