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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 31 October 202635 issues · 106 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on guidepointsecurity.com, 13 of them high impact, across 106 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.8 s2.2 sMay 9Oct 242.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.6 s
May 16, 20262.7 s
May 23, 20262.7 s
May 30, 20262.7 s
Jun 6, 20262.5 s
Jun 13, 20262.4 s
Jun 20, 20262.3 s
Jun 27, 20262.3 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.4 s
Jul 18, 20262.3 s
Jul 25, 20262.4 s
Aug 1, 20262.4 s
Aug 8, 20262.4 s
Aug 15, 20262.4 s
Aug 22, 20262.3 s
Aug 29, 20262.3 s
Sep 5, 20262.4 s
Sep 12, 20262.5 s
Sep 19, 20262.4 s
Sep 26, 20262.4 s
Oct 3, 20262.4 s
Oct 10, 20262.5 s
Oct 17, 20262.7 s
Oct 24, 20262.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
302 ms154 msMay 9Oct 24265 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026171 ms
May 16, 2026185 ms
May 23, 2026189 ms
May 30, 2026183 ms
Jun 6, 2026171 ms
Jun 13, 2026174 ms
Jun 20, 2026191 ms
Jun 27, 2026211 ms
Jul 4, 2026254 ms
Jul 11, 2026285 ms
Jul 18, 2026277 ms
Jul 25, 2026244 ms
Aug 1, 2026237 ms
Aug 8, 2026225 ms
Aug 15, 2026221 ms
Aug 22, 2026221 ms
Aug 29, 2026222 ms
Sep 5, 2026224 ms
Sep 12, 2026234 ms
Sep 19, 2026241 ms
Sep 26, 2026223 ms
Oct 3, 2026235 ms
Oct 10, 2026247 ms
Oct 17, 2026250 ms
Oct 24, 2026265 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

Full-page screenshot of guidepointsecurity.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. guidepointsecurity.com at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. guidepointsecurity.com at 1.4 s1.4 s
  3. guidepointsecurity.com at 2.1 s2.1 s
  4. guidepointsecurity.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  5. guidepointsecurity.com at 3.5 s3.5 s
  6. guidepointsecurity.com at 4.1 s4.1 s
  7. guidepointsecurity.com at 4.8 s4.8 s
  8. guidepointsecurity.com at 5.5 s5.5 s

guidepointsecurity.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

12 to fix38
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.9 s · 1.3 MB

    About 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.

  • 29,397 HTML elements

    The page has 29,397 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.8 s

    57 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.8 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 38

    38/100

    Your mobile performance score is 38. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 6.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 6.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.9 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 (Wistia, Google CDN and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 2.5 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    500 ms · 261 KiB

    39 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (261 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 87 KiB

    About 87 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google CDN adds 359 ms

    359 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 359 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB 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.

  • Wistia adds 379 ms

    379 ms

    Wistia costs a phone 379 ms of main-thread work and 396 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.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 418 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 344 ms

    344 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 344 ms of main-thread work and 532 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    74 KiB

    2 images could be 74 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    12 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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: 31 ms

    31 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 31 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix33
  • 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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 15.8 s

    15.8 s

    Your largest element takes 15.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 26.2 s

    26.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 26.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.0 s

    10.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.5 s

    3.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 801 ms

    801 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 801 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user INP: 275 ms

    275 ms

    Real visitors wait 275 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.15

    0.15

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.15 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 45% slower for real visitors

    +45%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 171 ms to 265 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 648 ms

    648 ms

    Real visitors wait 648 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.089

    0.089

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.089, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 4.9 MB in 202 requests

    4.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.9 MB in 202 requests on a phone: scripts 2.8 MB (94), fonts 591 KiB (4) and images 552 KiB (18). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (71 KiB) is 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.

  • About 1.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.38 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.38 g of CO₂e: 165.6 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 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

4 to fixGoogle 9796
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (6 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 35 links without text

    35 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.

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h5, h3 → h5 and h3 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 61 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 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 4 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9293
  • Meta description is long (161 characters)

    Your meta description is 161 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 19 links with vague text

    19 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 284 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 284 pages on guidepointsecurity.com and 5 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Stronger Together. Protecting What’s Next.”.

  • Title: 55 characters

    Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Cybersecurity Consulting Services | GuidePoint Security”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.guidepointsecurity.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, Organization, WebPage 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.guidepointsecurity.com/sitemap_index.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: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,788 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (11 KiB, 64 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 2 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /application-threat-modeling/%20, whose canonical is /application-threat-modeling. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 15 pages without an H1

    /services, /application-security, /application-security-architecture-review, /secure-sdlc-program-review, /application-security-as-a-service and /application-security-assessment and 9 others 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 185 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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 to fixGoogle 9671
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=148019897&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=1f909455-5ba5-48cb-bfd6-e81efda210bb&bo=1&sid=a18e4d40d57a11f191009dd344133dfb&vid=a18e5110d57a11f18f1c270c3e0ad9d9&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=9.

  • 22 small tap targets

    22 of 34 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 5 JavaScript errors while loading

    5 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 ()”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (guidepointsecurity.com).

  • Valid certificate (89 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for guidepointsecurity.com and is valid for another 89 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:// redirects to https

    http://guidepointsecurity.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 45 links work

    All 45 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 5 external) answered without errors; 5 did not answer within 5 s.

  • security.txt published

    A security.txt file tells researchers how to report a problem with your site.

Domain and trust

  • DNSSEC is off

    guidepointsecurity.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 15 years old

    15 years

    guidepointsecurity.com was registered in Oct 2011 through Gandi SAS. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Certificate issuers are restricted

    CAA records allow only godaddy.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and ssl.com to issue certificates for guidepointsecurity.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.

  • Registered until Oct 2027

    guidepointsecurity.com is registered until Oct 2027.

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 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 676 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 676 words of visible text.

7 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Talk to an Expert”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Talk to an Expert” and “REGISTER NOW”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 8 customer or partner logos and “Trusted by 6,300+ Businesses”.

  • 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.

Email authentication

95
  • Email authentication score: 95/100

    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: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject 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 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 19 cookies set on arrival

    19

    Opening the homepage sets 19 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.

  • 40 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 40 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.4.
  • 3 plugins are behind their latest release.elementor 4.3.2 → 4.3.5 · seriously-simple-podcasting 3.17.0 → 3.17.1 · elementskit-lite 4.0.6 → 4.0.9

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Hiring

Hiring
66 open roles
Teams
Engineering (13), Identity and Access Management (8), Federal (7), GuidePoint University (6)
Job board
greenhouse

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