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nicolascava.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 20269 issues · 81 checks
This review found 9 issues worth fixing on nicolascava.com, 0 of them high impact, across 81 checks. 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
97AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
450 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare and Google Analytics), adding 189 KiB and 104 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
121 KiBAbout 121 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 56 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
22 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 22 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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
4 KiB1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4 KiB).
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 100
100/100Your mobile performance score is 100. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.4 s
A phone's processor spends 0.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 231 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 1 ms
1 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 4.3 s
4.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 4.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
5 checks passed
Speed Index: 2.6 s
2.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.6 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sThe first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Largest Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sYour largest element renders in 0.9 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “You pay developers or an agency. Who on your side can judge…”.
Total Blocking Time: 9 ms
9 msScripts block the page for only 9 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.1 g of CO₂ per visit
0.14 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.14 g of CO₂e: 17.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Page weight: 518 KiB in 34 requests
518 KiBYour homepage downloads 518 KiB in 34 requests on a phone: scripts 367 KiB (17), fonts 87 KiB (2) and other files 35 KiB (12). That is a lean page.
Accessibility
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 checks passed
45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 0 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
22 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 22 pages on nicolascava.com and 3 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 138 characters
Your meta description is 138 characters: “Fractional (part-time) CTO for non-technical founders. I lead your developers or agency so they ship more each week, wi…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “You pay developers or an agency. Who on your side can judge what they propose?”.
Title: 63 characters
Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Nicolas Cava | Part-time CTO for non-technical startup founders”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.nicolascava.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Person, ProfessionalService 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.nicolascava.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Parts of the site are closed to 6 AI crawlers
Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.
3 checks passed
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, sameAs (social profiles) and description; logo and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (586 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (16 KiB, 49 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page with very little text
/call has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 17 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
4 small tap targets
4 of 12 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolascava (999).
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 180 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (nicolascava.com).
Valid certificate (78 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for nicolascava.com and is valid for another 78 days.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://nicolascava.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.
security.txt published
A security.txt file tells researchers how to report a problem with your site.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
nicolascava.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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 15 years old
15 yearsnicolascava.com was registered in Mar 2011 through Cloudflare, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
DNSSEC is on
nicolascava.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.
Registered until Mar 2028
nicolascava.com is registered until Mar 2028.
Content and conversion
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: 1 testimonial or review block. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 586 words of copy
The homepage carries about 586 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Pricing” and “Book a free 25-minute call”.
5 calls to action
The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Book a free 25-minute call” and “Full pricing”.
1 short form
A short form (2 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 3 email links.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 100/100
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: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject 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:_spf.google.com -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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.
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 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.
3 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 Analytics
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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