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finch.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 24 October 202631 issues · 95 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on finch.com, 11 of them high impact, across 95 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
77CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 4.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 4.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 4.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 110 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 369 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 407 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 462 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 506 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 362 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 262 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 221 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
Improve image delivery
1.9 s · 584 KiB11 images could be 584 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.9 s · 307 KiBAbout 307 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s25 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 47
47/100Your mobile performance score is 47 (desktop: 88). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
800 ms · 145 KiB9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (145 KiB).
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and b-cdn.net and others), adding 1.3 MB and 713 ms of main-thread time.
Google Tag Manager adds 451 ms
451 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 451 ms of main-thread work and 514 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.
b-cdn.net adds 65 ms
65 msb-cdn.net costs a phone 65 ms of main-thread work and 609 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.
6 long tasks on the main thread
6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 239 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 12 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 88 but mobile only 47. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 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.
First Contentful Paint: 8.3 s
8.3 sThe first text or image appears after 8.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 18.5 s
18.5 sYour largest element takes 18.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Finally, An Agency That Guarantees Revenue, ROAS, And Leads…”.
Time to Interactive: 18.6 s
18.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 18.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 9.4 s
9.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Real-user LCP: 2.6 s
2.6 sReal visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Tap response (INP) got 117% slower for real visitors
+117%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 112 ms to 221 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 379 ms
379 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 379 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 2.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user CLS: 0.06
0.06For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.06 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 757 ms
757 msReal visitors wait 757 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.7 MB in 118 requests
2.7 MBYour homepage downloads 2.7 MB in 118 requests on a phone: images 1.6 MB (27), scripts 936 KiB (38) and fonts 103 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
2 images far larger than shown
85 KiB2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 1658350379354-1.jpg at 400 px wide, shown at 50 px. Resized copies would save about 85 KiB.
5 images in older formats
5 images (421 KiB) 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.
6 images below the first screen load straight away
6 images further down the page (223 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.77 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.77 g of CO₂e: 92.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
32 text elements with low contrast
32 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
9 tap targets too small
9 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 32 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
14 links with vague text
14 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
79 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 79 pages on finch.com and 11 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 127 characters
Your meta description is 127 characters: “A performance-focused growth agency helping organizations scale through paid media, SEO, creative, and conversion optim…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Finally, an agency that guarantees Revenue, ROAS, and Leads”.
Title: 54 characters
Your title is a healthy 54 characters: “Performance Marketing & Growth Strategy Agency | Finch”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://finch.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: ImageObject, Organization, Service, WebPage and WebSite.
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://finch.com/sitemap_index.xml.
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.
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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,616 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (28 KiB, 80 links, though it should open with a “# Title” line), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 link to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /finch-master-service-agreement, whose canonical is /finch-master-services-agreement. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
2 pages without an H1
/finch-careers and /finch-master-service-agreement have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 17 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
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.
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
7 of 7 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 (finch.com).
Valid certificate (71 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for finch.com and is valid for another 71 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://finch.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 28 links work
All 28 links checked from your homepage (21 internal, 7 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
finch.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
finch.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.
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Domain is 31 years old
31 yearsfinch.com was registered in May 1995 through Gandi SAS. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until May 2027
finch.com is registered until May 2027.
Content and conversion
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.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
About 974 words of copy
The homepage carries about 974 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Book a Call”.
24 calls to action
The homepage has 24 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Book a Call” and “Learn More”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 58 testimonial or review blocks, 1 trust badge and “2400+ brands”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be finch.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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:22570905.spf06.hubspotemail.net include:_spf.google.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google” and “dkim”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (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.
11 cookies set on arrival
11Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
23 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 23 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 7.1.3.
- 3 plugins are behind their latest release.elementor 4.2.4 → 4.3.5 · essential-addons-for-elementor-lite 6.8.3 → 6.8.7 · real-time-auto-find-and-replace 2.0.0 → 2.0.1
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress 3.7.1
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Hiring
- Hiring
- 12 open roles
- Teams
- Engineering (3), Product (2), Sales (2), Success (2)
- Job board
- lever
- Careers page
- jobs.lever.co/finch (opens in a new tab)
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