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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202613 issues · 74 checks

This review found 13 issues worth fixing on fossa.com, 3 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

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  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.2 s1.8 sMay 16Oct 312.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20262.0 s
May 23, 20262.1 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.1 s
Jun 13, 20262.0 s
Jun 20, 20262.1 s
Jun 27, 20262.4 s
Jul 4, 20262.8 s
Jul 11, 20263.0 s
Jul 18, 20263.0 s
Jul 25, 20263.0 s
Aug 1, 20262.9 s
Aug 8, 20262.7 s
Aug 15, 20262.7 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.7 s
Sep 5, 20262.6 s
Sep 12, 20262.5 s
Sep 19, 20262.4 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.2 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20262.3 s
Oct 24, 20262.2 s
Oct 31, 20262.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
403 ms169 msMay 16Oct 31278 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026215 ms
May 23, 2026215 ms
May 30, 2026196 ms
Jun 6, 2026243 ms
Jun 13, 2026238 ms
Jun 20, 2026252 ms
Jun 27, 2026269 ms
Jul 4, 2026264 ms
Jul 11, 2026311 ms
Jul 18, 2026323 ms
Jul 25, 2026373 ms
Aug 1, 2026331 ms
Aug 8, 2026261 ms
Aug 15, 2026376 ms
Aug 22, 2026262 ms
Aug 29, 2026292 ms
Sep 5, 2026310 ms
Sep 12, 2026262 ms
Sep 19, 2026285 ms
Sep 26, 2026254 ms
Oct 3, 2026222 ms
Oct 10, 2026212 ms
Oct 17, 2026213 ms
Oct 24, 2026242 ms
Oct 31, 2026278 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

fossa.com (opens in a new tab)

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67

  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user INP: 274 ms

    274 ms

    Real visitors wait 274 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 21% slower for real visitors

    +21%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 215 ms to 278 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 996 ms

    996 ms

    Real visitors wait 996 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 11% slower for real visitors

    +11%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, 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).

3 checks passed

  • Real-user LCP: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Real visitors wait 2.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • 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: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70

  • Page weight: 4.5 MB

    4.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.5 MB on a phone, 157 KiB of it images (3%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.26 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.26 g of CO₂e: 151.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed

  • 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

2 to fix97

  • 4 text elements with low contrast

    4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 3 form fields without a label

    3 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

2 checks passed

  • Every image has alt text

    All 17 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 43 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: 43 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

100

  • 55 internal links, 12 external

    The homepage links to 55 pages on fossa.com and 12 external pages.

8 checks passed

  • Meta description: 152 characters

    Your meta description is 152 characters: “FOSSA secures the software supply chain with automated SBOM generation, software composition analysis, license complian…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Control Your Software Supply Chain”.

  • Title: 42 characters

    Your title is a healthy 42 characters: “FOSSA - Control Your Software Supply Chain”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization 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://fossa.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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: 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 (407 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (8 KiB, 57 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 40 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 fix93

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

2 checks passed

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    10 of 11 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix94

  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • 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 (fossa.com).

  • Valid certificate (164 days left)

    The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01 verifies for fossa.com and is valid for another 164 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 50 links work

    All 50 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 10 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    fossa.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.

3 checks passed

  • Domain is 29 years old

    29 years

    fossa.com was registered in Nov 1996 through Squarespace Domains II LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only amazon.com, digicert.com and letsencrypt.org to issue certificates for fossa.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • Registered until Nov 2028

    fossa.com is registered until Nov 2028.

Content and conversion

4 to fix78

  • 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 phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 16 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 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.

  • About 400 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 400 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: “Request Demo”.

  • 11 calls to action

    The homepage has 11 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Demo” and “Request Demo”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (4 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • 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

90

  • Email authentication score: 90/100

    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: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine 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 include:stspg-customer.com include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:aspmx.pardot.com include:mail-spf…”.

  • 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

  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Heap and LinkedIn Insight and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 16 cookies set on arrival

    16

    Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 24 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 24 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed

  • Consent tool: Cookiebot

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

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
Next.js
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Vercel

Hiring

Hiring
2 open roles
Teams
Customer Success (1), Sales (1)
Job board
greenhouse
Careers page
fossa.com/careers (opens in a new tab)

Company

Founded
2015
Headquarters
San Francisco

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