yext.com website review

About 927 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.7 s faster on a phone.

13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (345 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 35. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

18 images could be 5.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and osano.com and others), adding 1.1 MB and 896 ms of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 490 ms of main-thread work and 703 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 37 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 350 ms.

A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 294 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

About 11 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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.

The first text or image appears after 8.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 22.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Agents aren’t the edge. It’s you.”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 25.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 915 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 220 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

31 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 205 ms to 247 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 2.5 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 10.3 MB in 141 requests on a phone: images 5.4 MB (32), scripts 2.5 MB (44) and media 2.3 MB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

4 images weigh 4.6 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 1170x1170.png at 1,170 px wide, shown at 36 px. Resized copies would save about 4.2 MB.

12 images (5.3 MB) are 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.

9 images further down the page (5.2 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.93 g of CO₂e: 352.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

ARIA commands must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Structured data found (WebPage and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: missing name”.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 45 pages on yext.com and 14 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 homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /research/ai-citation-behavior-across-models, whose canonical is /research/articles/ai-citation-behavior-across-models. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/contact/sales and /demo have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/platform/scout took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 33 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.yext.com/research/ai-citation-behavior-across-models.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

yext.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.

yext.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.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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 697 words of visible text.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Osano) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 8 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.