Website review, no card needed
polleverywhere.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202625 issues · 98 checks
This review found 25 issues worth fixing on polleverywhere.com, 5 of them high impact, across 98 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
90AClosest competitors among SaaS websites
Compare side by sideShow as table
| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.6 s |
Show as table
| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 243 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 235 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 227 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 216 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 208 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 217 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 224 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 236 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 249 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 243 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 244 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 244 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 231 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 218 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 212 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 210 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 221 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 221 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 220 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 227 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
Speed
Render-blocking requests
2.4 s5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.4 s.
Improve image delivery
900 ms · 173 KiB1 image could be 173 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 68
68/100Your mobile performance score is 68 (desktop: 79). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
600 ms · 167 KiB32 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (167 KiB).
7 third-party services on the page
7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Hubspot and hubspotusercontent-na1.net and others), adding 1.7 MB and 362 ms of main-thread time.
Google Tag Manager adds 294 ms
294 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 294 ms of main-thread work and 476 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 JavaScript
258 KiBAbout 258 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
hubspotusercontent-na1.net adds 4 ms
4 mshubspotusercontent-na1.net costs a phone 4 ms of main-thread work and 943 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.
5 long tasks on the main thread
5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 134 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.2 s
A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 440 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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: 7.8 s
7.8 sYour largest element takes 7.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “A lecturer running a live bar-chart poll while students res…”.
Time to Interactive: 9.0 s
9.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 9.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 3.2 s
3.2 sThe first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 913 ms
913 msReal visitors wait 913 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
24 images without width and height
24 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 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 243 ms to 227 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 146 ms
146 msReal visitors wait 146 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 10% faster for real visitors
-10%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Speed Index: 3.2 s
3.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.2 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.075
0.075The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.075, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 88 ms
88 msScripts block the page for only 88 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
1 image far larger than shown
56 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example United States Navy Emblem.svg at 720 px wide, shown at 32 px. Resized copies would save about 56 KiB.
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.48 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.48 g of CO₂e: 57.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Page weight: 1.7 MB in 60 requests
1.7 MBYour homepage downloads 1.7 MB in 60 requests on a phone: images 621 KiB (22), scripts 616 KiB (18) and other files 313 KiB (12). That is a lean page.
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.
Accessibility
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 33 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
42 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 0 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at polleverywhere.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
34 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 34 pages on polleverywhere.com and 11 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 146 characters
Your meta description is 146 characters: “Add interactive polls to any presentation in under 2 minutes. Works with your existing presentation tools. No downloads…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Poll Everywhere works everywhere”.
Title: 38 characters
Your title is a healthy 38 characters: “Engage your audience | Poll Everywhere”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.polleverywhere.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.polleverywhere.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
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.
2 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (935 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
/2.0-apps and /app all use the title “Poll Everywhere Apps & Integrations | Seamless Audience Engagement”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
1 page without a meta description
/start has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages share a meta description
/2.0-apps and /app use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 page with very little text
/start 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 23 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 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 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
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
19 of 19 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
5 links through redirect chains
5 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.polleverywhere.com/start?hsLang=en.
No X-Content-Type-Options
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.
security.txt has expired
Your security.txt expired on 2026-01-01, so researchers may not trust its contact details.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (polleverywhere.com).
Valid certificate (109 days left)
The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01 verifies for polleverywhere.com and is valid for another 109 days.
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://polleverywhere.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 34 links work
All 34 links checked from your homepage (25 internal, 9 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
polleverywhere.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
polleverywhere.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 19 years old
19 yearspolleverywhere.com was registered in Jun 2007 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jun 2027
polleverywhere.com is registered until Jun 2027.
Content and conversion
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 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.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
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.
About 541 words of copy
The homepage carries about 541 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: “Get started”.
14 calls to action
The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Sign up”, “Join a poll” and “Join Poll Everywhere”.
4 short forms
4 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block and a star rating.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Plausible.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be polleverywhere.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:spf.braintreegateway.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:22544793.spf57.hu…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google” and “k1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager and HubSpot (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
8 cookies set on arrival
8Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
17 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 17 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This free review found 25 issues on polleverywhere.com, including 14 speed issues, 2 SEO issues and 3 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
14-day money-back guarantee: not happy for any reason, email us within 14 days and we refund in full.