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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 202634 issues · 79 checks
This review found 34 issues worth fixing on testout.com, 15 of them high impact, across 79 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
74CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 263 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 261 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 260 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 262 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 262 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 268 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 269 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 270 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 269 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 269 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 271 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 271 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 273 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 276 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 280 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 283 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 288 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 289 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 289 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 291 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 292 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 294 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 293 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 288 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 288 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
0.5 s
0.9 s
1.4 s
1.8 s
2.3 s
2.8 s
3.2 s
3.7 s
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.9 s · 1.2 MB40 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.2 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.6 s · 853 KiBAbout 853 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.6 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 44
44/100Your mobile performance score is 44 (desktop: 42). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 4.1 s
A phone's processor spends 4.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,118 HTML elements
The page has 3,118 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Facebook, netomi.com and Optimizely and others), adding 1.4 MB and 850 ms of main-thread time.
Font display
950 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 950 ms).
19 long tasks on the main thread
19 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 333 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Facebook adds 256 ms
256 msFacebook costs a phone 256 ms of main-thread work and 282 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.
netomi.com adds 142 ms
142 msnetomi.com costs a phone 142 ms of main-thread work and 422 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.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 46 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 46 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
52 KiB1 image could be 52 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Reduce unused CSS
41 KiBAbout 41 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
1 checks passed
Server response: 4 ms
4 msYour server sent the HTML in 4 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: 16.6 s
16.6 sYour largest element takes 16.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “By clicking “Accept All Cookies”, you agree to the storing …”.
Time to Interactive: 23.8 s
23.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 23.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.1 s
8.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.0 s
1.0 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user INP: 255 ms
255 msReal visitors wait 255 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s
1.8 sThe first text or image appears after 1.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
1 image without width and height
1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) got 10% slower for real visitors
+10%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 263 ms to 288 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
6 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.5 s
2.5 sReal visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.08
0.08For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.08 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 665 ms
665 msReal visitors wait 665 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 13% faster for real visitors
-13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.9 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.038
0.038The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.038, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.1 MB in 136 requests
3.1 MBYour homepage downloads 3.1 MB in 136 requests on a phone: scripts 2.2 MB (56), fonts 545 KiB (2) and other files 155 KiB (59). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image far larger than shown
51 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Zz1kY2NlOTk2NjZiOGUxMWVmOWZmMmNlMjAwYWExNzJlNg== at 3,191 px wide, shown at 160 px. Resized copies would save about 51 KiB.
1 image in older formats
1 image (52 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.87 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.87 g of CO₂e: 103.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
1 button without a name
1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
Images must have alternative text (1 element)
Images must have alternative text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
ARIA dialog and alertdialog nodes should have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA dialog and alertdialog nodes should have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
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
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (7 characters)
Your title is only 7 characters: “CompTIA”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
59 internal links, 9 external
The homepage links to 59 pages on testout.com and 9 external pages.
5 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “CompTIA”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.comptia.org/en-us/lp/testout/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: WebPage.
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.comptia.org/en/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (893 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.comptia.org/llms.txt (1 KiB, 0 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://www.comptia.org/en-us/nonprofit 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 28 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 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
6 JavaScript errors while loading
6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Connecting to 'https://ad.doubleclick.net/ccm/s/collect?auid=2022489954.1792703743>m=45E92e6al0v9205670028za204zd9205…”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
36 of 40 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
Only about 161 words
The homepage has only about 161 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop products”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Shop products”, “Shop” and “Contact Us”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight and Meta Pixel (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.
33 cookies set on arrival
33Opening the homepage sets 33 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
36 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 36 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.
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 testout.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
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- Next.js
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Vercel
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