https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/hearings-and-appeals/hearings-and-appeals-secretary-decisions Export & shareGlobal Performance
6/6 locations ✓Excellent global latency — average 48ms across 6 locations, fastest from Amsterdam (27ms), slowest from Madrid (117ms). Azure Front Door edge cache (CONFIG_NOCACHE). Cache-Control header is missing.
Audit overview
Compliance and Sustainability need attention; the other categories are in good shape.
Fix Priority Matrix
5 findingsQuick Wins
4High impact, low effort — start here.
Strategic
1High impact, requires investment.
Easy Improvements
0Small gains, minimal effort.
Nothing in this quadrant — good news.
Deprioritize
0Low impact, high effort — do last.
Nothing in this quadrant — good news.
Screenshots
Your mail setup has problems.
ed.gov fails 2 mail checks: No DMARC record found, No SPF record found. This is the kind of misconfiguration that sends your mail to spam.
Top Priorities (5)
Content-Security-Policy header is missing
Without a CSP, a single XSS bug can exfiltrate everything your users type — including credentials.
HSTS header is missing
Without HSTS, a network attacker can downgrade the very first connection to HTTP and steal the user's session.
Page body has only 110 chars of text -- likely empty / placeholder
Security gaps expose your site and users to attacks, eroding trust.
Page weighs 8.3 MB (4.0 MB transferred)
Informational: total page weight (uncompressed) and bytes actually transferred over the wire.
Missing <html lang> attribute (WCAG 3.1.1)
Missing <html lang> attribute -- screen readers default to the user's system language and pronounce content with the wrong phonetics.
Business case
What fixing the audit's findings is worth -- and what ignoring them keeps costing.
Return on investment
$383 investment → $13,481/month returns + USD 157,500 risk avoided
Figures combine localized regulatory fine ceilings, search/conversion value priced against local CPC, and bandwidth waste estimates. Results depend on implementation quality and audience composition. Not legal or financial advice.
Conversion barriers
10 barrier(s) likely increasing bounce by ~38%.
- Page takes 4.2s to loadUsers abandon at ~3s — you're 1.7s over the 2.5s threshold→ Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
- Page feels frozen for 942msClicks on the primary CTA are ignored while JavaScript runs→ Break up long tasks; defer non-critical JavaScript to post-hydration
- No viewport meta tagMobile browsers render at desktop width and shrink — text unreadable, tap targets miniature→ Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
- No HSTS headerReturning visitors are briefly exposed to downgrade attacks on first request→ Set Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
- No Content-Security-Policy headerHigher XSS blast radius — one compromised script can exfiltrate the checkout form→ Ship a reporting-only CSP first, then enforce once violations are clean
Preliminary CRO audit — each barrier links to the tab with detailed analysis.
Remediation cost
Start here for the best return on investment
Cost by category
Cost by effort level
Adjust assumptions
Team composition
Multiplier applied to dev hours to reflect QA, design, and PM overhead. Use Dev only for solo work; Full team for projects with formal review processes.
Rates reflect fully-loaded developer cost including overhead
Warning:Cost of inaction
Compliance Risk
$157,500
- No privacy policy found (page links and common paths checked)CCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- Privacy Policy not detectedCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- No <main> landmark foundADA Title III: USD 25,000 – USD 150,000
Bounce-Rate Cost
$10,347 /mo
+38.5pp bounce · ~3,847 lost visitors/mo
CPC: USD 2.69
Bandwidth Waste
$1.01 /mo
12635.4 MB/mo × 0.080 USD/GB
- Optimize transfer: save ~1.3 MB per page loadSaves $1.01/mo
Compliance figures represent the statutory maximum fine for the most severe triggered category, capped per regulation — not the sum of per-finding penalties. Based on published regulatory fine ranges. This is not legal advice.
Unique monthly visitors from your analytics
Purchases, signups, or key actions
Optional — for revenue estimation
more engaged visitors from reduced bounce
Fix 5 critical issues to capture this value
How this is calculated
Based on Google/Deloitte research ("Milliseconds Make Millions") showing a ~7% bounce rate increase per additional second of LCP above the 2.5s "Good" threshold.
Your site's LCP: → estimated after fixes.
These are estimates based on industry research — actual results vary
Your data stays in your browser — nothing is sent to our servers
Lighthouse
Mobile
First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.
3.16 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
4.16 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
942 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.011
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
9.11 s
Time to Interactive Time to Interactive — how long until the page is fully interactive and responds to user input. Under 3.8s is good.
21.38 s
Desktop
First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.
1.12 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
1.78 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
22 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.035
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
1.73 s
Time to Interactive Time to Interactive — how long until the page is fully interactive and responds to user input. Under 3.8s is good.
2.93 s
Categories
8Performance
Page weighs 8.3 MB (4.0 MB transferred)
Security
Content-Security-Policy header is missing
Accessibility
Missing <html lang> attribute (WCAG 3.1.1)
SEO
All checks pass
Infrastructure
All checks pass
Compliance
All checks pass
Content
All checks pass
Sustainability
All checks pass
How you compare
Where this site stands against peers running the same stack.
Technology stack
Azure Front Door, hosted on Azure, with Azure CDN CDN
Stack Architecture
Azure Front Door Azure CDN Azure All Detected Technologies (3)
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Azure Front Door is a scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global web applications.
Observations (1)
No build tool detected
A framework (Azure Front Door) was detected but no bundler was identified. The build tool may not be detectable from output patterns, or the site may use the framework's built-in bundler.
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Fix Plan
Three-week roadmap to ship the audit's findings, with one-click copy targets for your tracker.
Three-week fix plan
2 sprints · 4h total → projected B (86)
Sprint 1: Quick Wins
+9Highest ROI — low effort, high impact
- · Page weighs 8.3 MB (4.0 MB transferred)
- · Missing <html lang> attribute (WCAG 3.1.1)
- · HSTS header is missing
- · Page body has only 110 chars of text -- likely empty / placeholder
Sprint 2: Core Fixes
Medium effort, high structural impact
- · Content-Security-Policy header is missing