phrase.com website review

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.

A phone's processor spends 3.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 195 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

7 images could be 334 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

The page has 2,001 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

52 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (222 KiB).

About 177 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

1 third-party service load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager), adding 180 KiB and 110 ms of main-thread time.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 81 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 47 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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

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.

Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 3.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 143 ms to 169 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Phrase-Home-NYC-Hero-.jpg.webp at 1,600 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 63 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.37 g of CO₂e: 44.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

5 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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

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

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

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

The homepage links to 243 pages on phrase.com and 28 external pages.

/platform/ai-solutions/content-groups, /quality-evaluation, /platform/analytics, /platform/managed-outcomes, /roles and /roles/localization-managers and 1 other have 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.

14 of 38 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

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

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

phrase.com is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.

phrase.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.

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 1,687 words of visible text.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 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 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.