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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202652 issues · 117 checks
This review found 52 issues worth fixing on wondrium.com, 22 of them high impact, across 117 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
69D- #71,509 of 83,630 reviewed websitesbeats 12%
- #38,481 of 42,025 online storesbeats 7%
- #401 of 604 Magento storesbeats 29%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 5.0 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 4.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 4.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 4.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 4.8 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 4.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 4.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 5.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 5.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 5.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 5.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 5.5 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 5.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 5.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 5.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 5.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 5.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 5.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 5.6 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 154 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 152 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 152 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 161 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 162 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
0.7 s
1.5 s
2.2 s
2.9 s
3.7 s
4.4 s
5.1 s
5.9 s
wondrium.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.7 s · 801 KiB257 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (801 KiB).
Render-blocking requests
1.4 s22 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.
Minify JavaScript
1.1 s · 195 KiB195 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Main-thread work: 11.8 s
A phone's processor spends 11.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 7.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Google Tag Manager adds 1.0 s
1.0 sGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 1.0 s of main-thread work and 688 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.
Mobile performance score: 32
32/100Your mobile performance score is 32 (desktop: 51). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, reddit and FontAwesome CDN and others), adding 1.4 MB and 3.5 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
900 ms · 579 KiBAbout 579 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
600 ms · 630 KiB12 images could be 630 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.
reddit adds 976 ms
976 msreddit costs a phone 976 ms of main-thread work and 26 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.
FontAwesome CDN adds 816 ms
816 msFontAwesome CDN costs a phone 816 ms of main-thread work and 240 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 CSS
300 ms · 217 KiBAbout 217 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 405 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Accessibe Accessibility Overlay adds 259 ms
259 msAccessibe Accessibility Overlay costs a phone 259 ms of main-thread work and 243 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.
1,571 HTML elements
The page has 1,571 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 20 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 20 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Font display
150 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 31 ms
31 msYour server sent the HTML in 31 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.
Real-user LCP: 4.8 s
4.8 sReal visitors wait 4.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 17.1 s
17.1 sYour largest element takes 17.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 25.7 s
25.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 25.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 2.2 s
2.2 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 2.2 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 9.1 s
9.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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 FCP: 2.6 s
2.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors wait 1.7 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
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) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 154 ms to 162 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 11% slower for real visitors
+11%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.0 s to 5.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user INP: 150 ms
150 msReal visitors wait 150 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.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.0 MB in 349 requests
4.0 MBYour homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 349 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (232), images 1.1 MB (43) and fonts 508 KiB (14). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image in older formats
1 image (75 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 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.12 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.12 g of CO₂e: 134.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Required ARIA attributes must be provided (1 element)
Required ARIA attributes must be provided: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
1 button without a name
1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (62 elements)
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 62 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
ARIA commands must have an accessible name (4 elements)
ARIA commands must have an accessible name: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
2 text elements with low contrast
2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (9 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
39 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 39 passed and 8 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Blocked from indexing
Google's crawler is blocked from indexing this page.
Meta description is long (236 characters)
Your meta description is 236 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
4 links crawlers can't follow
4 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
3 links with vague text
3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
38 internal links, 28 external
The homepage links to 38 pages on wondrium.com and 28 external pages.
7 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Explore The Great Courses Plus”.
Title: 64 characters
Your title is a healthy 64 characters: “Stream Entertaining Nonfiction Learning | The Great Courses Plus”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://plus.thegreatcourses.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, EducationalOrganization, FAQPage and WebSite.
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://plus.thegreatcourses.com/media/sitemap_plus.xml.
AI search readiness
robots.txt blocks 6 AI answer engine crawlers
6 of 6Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.
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.
Opted out of AI training for 5 crawlers
robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.
2 checks passed
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (699 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 29 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 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 a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
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
18 small tap targets
18 of 38 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
3 third-party cookies
3 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Maximum call stack size exceeded.”.
3 distorted images
3 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://channelstore.roku.com/details/a70287455607011be73b739928b0c56b/the-great-courses-plus (404).
No HSTS header
No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
2 redirects before the homepage
Opening https://wondrium.com goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (plus.thegreatcourses.com).
Valid certificate (185 days left)
The certificate from DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1 verifies for wondrium.com and is valid for another 185 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
http:// redirects to https
http://wondrium.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.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
thegreatcourses.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
thegreatcourses.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 27 years old
27 yearsthegreatcourses.com was registered in Jan 1999 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jan 2028
thegreatcourses.com is registered until Jan 2028.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 18 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 247 words
The homepage has only about 247 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn More” and “SHOP”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Learn More”, “Start Free Trial” and “Shop”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (3 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Email authentication
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.
Email authentication score: 80/100
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
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.messagelabs.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:amazonses.com -all”.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight and 1 more (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.
40 cookies set on arrival
40Opening the homepage sets 40 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
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.
34 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 34 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Tailwind CSS
- E-commerce
- Magento
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- AWS
Company
- Founded
- 1990
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