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romebusinessschool.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202618 issues · 85 checks
This review found 18 issues worth fixing on romebusinessschool.com, 5 of them high impact, across 85 checks. The most urgent: unlabelled dropdowns. 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
91AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 119 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 121 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 122 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 135 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 134 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 141 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 143 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
355 KiBAbout 355 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 58 KiB3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (58 KiB).
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (cookiepro.com and Optanon), adding 182 KiB and 72 ms of main-thread time.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 54 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Improve image delivery
16 KiB1 image could be 16 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Minify JavaScript
16 KiB16 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Legacy JavaScript
9 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 9 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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 96
96/100Your mobile performance score is 96 (desktop: 99). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.6 s
A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 231 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 13 ms
13 msYour server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Tap response (INP) got 20% slower for real visitors
+20%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 119 ms to 143 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.7 s
2.7 sYour largest element takes 2.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Better managers for a better world Up to €3,000 in financia…”.
Time to Interactive: 4.1 s
4.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 4.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
10 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: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 119 ms
119 msReal visitors wait 119 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: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 754 ms
754 msReal visitors wait 754 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Speed Index: 2.3 s
2.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.009
0.009The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.009, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 2 ms
2 msScripts block the page for only 2 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
RBS_logo_horizontal-e1670202150348.webp is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
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: 17.0 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: 513 KiB in 29 requests
513 KiBYour homepage downloads 513 KiB in 29 requests on a phone: scripts 263 KiB (12), fonts 91 KiB (6) and images 78 KiB (4). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Unlabelled dropdowns
1 dropdown has no label.
12 text elements with low contrast
12 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
8 tap targets too small
8 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
76 links without text
76 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 form fields without a label
2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings should not be empty (3 elements)
Headings should not be empty: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 47 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 9 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
153 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 153 pages on romebusinessschool.com and 8 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 127 characters
Your meta description is 127 characters: “Discover Rome Business School: join students from over 140 countries, MBA, Masters Online and On-Campus in English and …”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Better managers for a better world”.
Title: 46 characters
Your title is a healthy 46 characters: “Rome Business School: Business School in Italy”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://romebusinessschool.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: EducationalOrganization.
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://romebusinessschool.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://romebusinessschool.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.
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: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,934 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://romebusinessschool.com/academic-committee has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 97 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://romebusinessschool.com/.
13 small tap targets
13 of 31 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
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.
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 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.
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 361 words of copy
The homepage carries about 361 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: “Contact Us” and “Request Information”.
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Master's program to start a career” and “Request Information”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 8 customer or partner logos and “more than 100,000 students”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
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.
Privacy and tracking
2 cookies set on arrival
2Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
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.
2 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at romebusinessschool.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
Company
- Founded
- 2011
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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