military.com website review

About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.3 s faster on a phone.

169 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.2 MB).

Your mobile performance score is 37. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 7.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, adsninja.ca and Rubicon Project and others), adding 3.1 MB and 1.8 s of main-thread time.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 579 ms of main-thread work and 734 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.

16 images could be 362 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

adsninja.ca costs a phone 288 ms of main-thread work and 501 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.

Other Google APIs/SDKs costs a phone 168 ms of main-thread work and 443 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.

mltimages.com costs a phone 73 ms of main-thread work and 942 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.

The page has 1,648 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 209 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 52 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.

Polyfills for old browsers add 80 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The first text or image appears after 13.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 31.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Sin título”.

Visually, the page fills in at 16.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 48.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 738 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 89 ms to 112 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.5 MB in 1,268 requests on a phone: scripts 2.5 MB (106), images 726 KiB (373) and HTML 627 KiB (205). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example ap26283234017271.jpg at 1,440 px wide, shown at 358 px. Resized copies would save about 38 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.27 g of CO₂e: 152.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

21 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

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

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

31 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

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

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

Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 243 pages on military.com and 22 external pages.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

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.

There is no https://www.military.com/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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

https://www.military.com/find-info/contact-recruiter has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.military.com/find-info/contact-recruiter has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 100 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

44 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

23 of 56 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 2 deprecated browser APIs that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unable to find element with ID: comments-feed-list.”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 1,118 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager 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.

Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 48 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.