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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202627 issues · 105 checks

This review found 27 issues worth fixing on ninjatrader.com, 13 of them high impact, across 105 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 s1.4 sMay 9Oct 241.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.3 s
May 16, 20262.4 s
May 23, 20262.4 s
May 30, 20262.5 s
Jun 6, 20262.5 s
Jun 13, 20262.6 s
Jun 20, 20262.7 s
Jun 27, 20262.7 s
Jul 4, 20262.6 s
Jul 11, 20262.5 s
Jul 18, 20262.5 s
Jul 25, 20262.5 s
Aug 1, 20262.5 s
Aug 8, 20262.5 s
Aug 15, 20262.5 s
Aug 22, 20262.4 s
Aug 29, 20262.3 s
Sep 5, 20262.1 s
Sep 12, 20262.1 s
Sep 19, 20262.1 s
Sep 26, 20262.0 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20261.9 s
Oct 17, 20261.6 s
Oct 24, 20261.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
195 ms150 msMay 9Oct 24155 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026168 ms
May 16, 2026170 ms
May 23, 2026172 ms
May 30, 2026175 ms
Jun 6, 2026178 ms
Jun 13, 2026184 ms
Jun 20, 2026182 ms
Jun 27, 2026180 ms
Jul 4, 2026178 ms
Jul 11, 2026172 ms
Jul 18, 2026173 ms
Jul 25, 2026176 ms
Aug 1, 2026177 ms
Aug 8, 2026179 ms
Aug 15, 2026186 ms
Aug 22, 2026188 ms
Aug 29, 2026190 ms
Sep 5, 2026186 ms
Sep 12, 2026181 ms
Sep 19, 2026178 ms
Sep 26, 2026178 ms
Oct 3, 2026174 ms
Oct 10, 2026169 ms
Oct 17, 2026162 ms
Oct 24, 2026155 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 ninjatrader.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. ninjatrader.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. ninjatrader.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. ninjatrader.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. ninjatrader.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. ninjatrader.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. ninjatrader.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. ninjatrader.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. ninjatrader.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

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

Speed

9 to fix34
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.6 s · 1.1 MB

    About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 1.5 s of main-thread work and 1.3 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Mobile performance score: 34

    34/100

    Your mobile performance score is 34. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 4.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.6 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 (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Optanon and others), adding 2.7 MB and 2.2 s of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    400 ms · 639 KiB

    38 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (639 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    400 ms

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 400 ms.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 253 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Ada adds 55 ms

    55 ms

    Ada costs a phone 55 ms of main-thread work and 641 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 61 KiB

    About 61 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    184 KiB

    2 images could be 184 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Minify JavaScript

    100 KiB

    100 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    46 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 46 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.

  • Minify CSS

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • First Contentful Paint: 10.0 s

    10.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 10.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.0 s

    10.0 s

    Your largest element takes 10.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Finally, AI that speaks futures.”.

  • Time to Interactive: 25.2 s

    25.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 25.2 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.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 8 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 168 ms to 155 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

8 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 156 ms

    156 ms

    Real visitors wait 156 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • 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: 481 ms

    481 ms

    Real visitors wait 481 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 31% faster for real visitors

    -31%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 4.1 MB in 154 requests

    4.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.1 MB in 154 requests on a phone: scripts 2.7 MB (52), media 669 KiB (1) and images 307 KiB (25). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.17 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.17 g of CO₂e: 140.9 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

1 to fixGoogle 9798
  • 8 text elements with low contrast

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 18 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 48 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 1 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 9298
  • 1 link with vague text

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

  • 110 internal links, 36 external

    The homepage links to 110 pages on ninjatrader.com and 36 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 124 characters

    Your meta description is 124 characters: “Learn the markets, understand your trading, and test your strategies. The #1-rated futures broker, now with AI by your …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Finally, AI that speaks futures.”.

  • Title: 46 characters

    Your title is a healthy 46 characters: “More trading power in your hands | NinjaTrader”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: FinancialService and Organization.

  • 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://ninjatrader.com/sitemap-index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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.

3 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 (1,608 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix93
  • 1 page without a meta description

    /single-stock-futures has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 6 pages share a meta description

    /fr-fr, /de-de, /it-it, /pt-pt, /ru-ru and /es-es use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 page with very little text

    /ru-ru 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 72 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.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • 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 to fixGoogle 7770
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=163010422&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=861cc2cd-9319-4488-92b5-01a3539f9e71&bo=1&sid=73eca6a0d5ce11f1b96e5b3519ad8cd3&vid=73ecbfd0d5ce11f1b06f9752969f8bab&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=9.

  • 2 small tap targets

    2 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • Browser-reported issues

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

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix94
  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

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

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

8 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (74 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for ninjatrader.com and is valid for another 74 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.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 60 links work

    All 60 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 20 external) answered without errors.

  • security.txt published

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

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    ninjatrader.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.

  • DNSSEC is off

    ninjatrader.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 23 years old

    23 years

    ninjatrader.com was registered in May 2003 through MarkMonitor Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until May 2030

    ninjatrader.com is registered until May 2030.

Content and conversion

1 to fix88
  • No social proof

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

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 1,444 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,444 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: “START TRADING”.

  • 15 calls to action

    The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “How to start futures trading” and “Contact Us”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • 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.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

1 to fix70
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be ninjatrader.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 70/100

    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.

2 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.salesforce.com include:cust-spf.exacttarget.com i…”.

  • 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

  • 11 trackers load before any consent

    11

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Heap and LinkedIn Insight and 6 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 25 cookies set on arrival

    25

    Opening the homepage sets 25 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 49 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 49 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: OneTrust

    A consent management tool (OneTrust) 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
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Hiring

Hiring
20 open roles
Teams
Engineering (9), Marketing (4), Client Services (2), Security & IT (2)
Job board
ashby

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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