venafi.com website review

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

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

About 63 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

About 38 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.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 158 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

1 third-party service load with your homepage (mPulse), adding 60 KiB and 75 ms of main-thread time.

Polyfills for old browsers add 7 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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 3.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors wait 294 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 183 ms to 296 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 3.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors see the first content after 2.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.7 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 2.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “CyberArk Certificate Manager is now Next-Gen Trust Security…”.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.13 g of CO₂e: 15.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 21 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

The homepage links to 97 pages on venafi.com and 18 external pages.

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.

Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User) and Perplexity (PerplexityBot) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/get-started, https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources, https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/ai-security/prisma-airs, https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/security-subscriptions, https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/advanced-url-filtering and https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/advanced-wildfire have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/network-security/get-started 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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 79 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

Your longest form asks for 13 fields (8 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

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 383 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager (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.

Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.