granicus.com website review

Not measured in this review.

• 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: 210 ms

  210 ms

  Real visitors wait 210 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

• Largest content (LCP) got 32% slower for real visitors

  +32%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Tap response (INP) got 16% slower for real visitors

  +16%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 185 ms to 215 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Page weight: 3.9 MB

  3.9 MB

  Your homepage downloads 3.9 MB on a phone, 1.3 MB of it images (34%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• 7 images in older formats

  7 images (799 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.

  Elements (5)

• About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit

  1.09 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.09 g of CO₂e: 131.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• 23 text elements with low contrast

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

  Elements (3)

• Hidden but focusable

  2 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  Elements (2)

• Links look like plain text

  1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.

  Elements (1)

• All page content should be contained by landmarks (47 elements)

  All page content should be contained by landmarks: 47 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  Elements (3)

• No main landmark

  The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  Elements (1)

• 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.

  Elements (1)

• Headings skip levels

  Headings skip levels (h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  View sourceElements (1)

• 178 internal links, 17 external

  The homepage links to 178 pages on granicus.com and 17 external pages.

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 74 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 3 broken images

  3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/e482f9ff54dc7f4816dda4864620a9ca89b14f66.jpg?image_crop_resized=640x360.

• 6 JavaScript errors while loading

  6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “truste is not defined”.

• 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.

• Short HSTS lifetime

  HSTS is set, but max-age is 0 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

• No X-Content-Type-Options

  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

• 1 link through redirect chains

  1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://support.granicus.com/.

• 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.

• No CAA record

  granicus.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.

• 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.

• 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 1,000 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 1,000 words of visible text.

• 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.

• 6 trackers load before any consent

  6

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

• 23 cookies set on arrival

  23

  Opening the homepage sets 23 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

• 55 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 55 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.