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2026-04-15 23:27 UTC
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Audit overview

Security and Accessibility need attention; the other categories are in good shape.

Fix Priority Matrix

5 findings

Quick Wins

4

High impact, low effort — start here.

Strategic

1

High impact, requires investment.

Easy Improvements

0

Small gains, minimal effort.

Nothing in this quadrant — good news.

Deprioritize

0

Low impact, high effort — do last.

Nothing in this quadrant — good news.

← Low effort High effort →

Screenshots

DESKTOP + MOBILE
Desktop
Desktop screenshot
Mobile
Mobile screenshot

Top Priorities (5)

Sorted by impact
Critical: 1

Content-Security-Policy header is missing

Without a CSP, a single XSS bug can exfiltrate everything your users type — including credentials.

Security › Security Headers
Critical: 2

Cookie 'atl_uuid' is missing the Secure flag

A cookie without the Secure flag can leak over HTTP — in HSTS-protected sites, this is still a defense-in-depth gap.

Security › Cookie Security
Critical: 3

Cookie 'atltestbucketv1' is missing the Secure flag

A cookie without the Secure flag can leak over HTTP — in HSTS-protected sites, this is still a defense-in-depth gap.

Security › Cookie Security
Critical: 4

Cookie 'is_gdpr' is missing the Secure flag

A cookie without the Secure flag can leak over HTTP — in HSTS-protected sites, this is still a defense-in-depth gap.

Security › Cookie Security
Critical: 5

Cookie 'kppid' is missing the Secure flag

A cookie without the Secure flag can leak over HTTP — in HSTS-protected sites, this is still a defense-in-depth gap.

Security › Cookie Security
What fixing these means. Your site performs reasonably well, but a few targeted fixes could meaningfully improve results. Addressing the critical issues below would have the most immediate impact on your user trust.
5 security gaps detected — browsers may warn visitors about your site.

Business case

What fixing the audit's findings is worth -- and what ignoring them keeps costing.

Return on investment

€340 investment → €8,593/month returns + EUR 120,500,000 risk avoided

Investment
€340
4.0 h · 5 findings
Monthly returns
€8.593
€103.113/yr
Payback
0.0 mo
+30227% Y1
Regulatory risk avoided EUR 120.500.000
Or — fix only the top 3 findings
€2980.0 mo payback · +34560% Y1
Optimistic scenario assuming the top 3 capture most of the upside. Real-world recovery typically falls between this projection and the full-fix ROI above.
€85 — in quick wins — start here for the fastest payback

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

5 barrier(s) likely increasing bounce by ~27%.

Barriers
5
2 crit 3 warn
Bounce delta
+27pp
added vs baseline
Score
71
B
Speed
2
Trust
1
Usability
1
Content
0
Nav
1
  • Page takes 15.5s to load
    Users abandon at ~3s — you're 13.0s over the 2.5s threshold
    → Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
  • Severe layout shift during page load
    Users mis-click when content jumps — converting intent into frustration
    → Reserve space for images, ads, and embeds with explicit width/height
  • High main-thread blocking time
    Page is non-interactive for 450ms after first paint
    → Defer third-party scripts and split large bundles
  • No Content-Security-Policy header
    Higher XSS blast radius — one compromised script can exfiltrate the checkout form
    → Ship a reporting-only CSP first, then enforce once violations are clean
  • 1 broken link(s) on the page
    Clicks land on 404s — trust drops and the session often ends
    → Fix or remove the broken destinations surfaced on the Content tab

Preliminary CRO audit — each barrier links to the tab with detailed analysis.

Remediation cost

€340 4.0 developer hours at €85/hr
Quick wins
€85 4 fixes in ~60 minutes

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.

/hr

Rates reflect fully-loaded developer cost including overhead

How developer rates are sourced

Warning:Cost of inaction

€8.593 / month at risk ~€103.113 / year if left unfixed
Default is 10,000. Use your own number for accurate $-figures.

Compliance Risk

€120.500.000

ePrivacy DirectiveGDPREAA
  • No privacy policy link detected
    GDPR: EUR 10.000 – EUR 20.000.000
  • 4 advertising/retargeting trackers detected
    GDPR: EUR 10.000 – EUR 20.000.000
  • Trackers detected but no cookie policy found
    GDPR: EUR 5.000 – EUR 10.000.000

Bounce-Rate Cost

€8.592 /mo

+26.5pp bounce · ~2,651 lost visitors/mo

CPC: EUR 3.24

Bandwidth Waste

€0,74 /mo

9956.4 MB/mo × 0.074 EUR/GB

  • Optimize transfer: save ~996 KB per page load
    Saves €0,74/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.

Compliance methodology · SEO assumptions · Bandwidth model

Your performance is already good — improvements may show diminishing returns

Unique monthly visitors from your analytics

Purchases, signups, or key actions

Optional — for revenue estimation

additional conversions/month

more engaged visitors from reduced bounce

potential monthly revenue
Current bounce (est.)
After fixes (est.)
Estimated bounce reduction

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

Bounce-rate model & assumptions

Your data stays in your browser — nothing is sent to our servers

Lighthouse

Mobile

22
Performance Overall performance score (0–100) based on Core Web Vitals and other metrics. 90+ is good.
97
Accessibility Measures how accessible the page is for users with disabilities. Checks color contrast, ARIA labels, and semantic HTML.
96
Best Practices Checks for modern web development best practices including HTTPS, no console errors, and secure JavaScript.
100
SEO Measures basic SEO optimizations: meta tags, crawlability, link text, and mobile friendliness.

First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.

8.57 s

Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.

15.51 s

Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.

450 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.

0.695

Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.

8.57 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.

19.68 s

Desktop

82
Performance Overall performance score (0–100) based on Core Web Vitals and other metrics. 90+ is good.
100
Accessibility Measures how accessible the page is for users with disabilities. Checks color contrast, ARIA labels, and semantic HTML.
96
Best Practices Checks for modern web development best practices including HTTPS, no console errors, and secure JavaScript.
100
SEO Measures basic SEO optimizations: meta tags, crawlability, link text, and mobile friendliness.

First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.

1.01 s

Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.

1.16 s

Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.

8 ms

Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.

0.256

Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.

1.37 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.

2.16 s

Categories

8
Avg score 77.6

How you compare

Where this site stands against peers running the same stack.

Amazon Route 53 · 1012 peers
You 73
·
Avg 72
At average
0 50 100
Security P15Content P84Accessibility P71Sustainability P69Infrastructure P66SEO P37Compliance P46Performance P52

Top 10% of Amazon Route 53 sites score 75+ on Security; you're at 61 — closing this gap is the highest-leverage improvement.

Better than 48% of Amazon Route 53 sites See full Amazon Route 53 benchmark →
core-js · 1601 peers
You 73
·
Avg 72
At average
0 50 100
Content P86Security P20SEO P26Sustainability P66Accessibility P61Infrastructure P59Performance P54Compliance P50

Top 10% of core-js sites score 75+ on Security; you're at 61 — closing this gap is the highest-leverage improvement.

Better than 48% of core-js sites See full core-js benchmark →

Technology stack

Amazon Route 53, hosted on Next.js, with Cloudflare CDN

23 technologies detected 4 stack layers 3 with CPE identifier Enterprise

Stack Architecture

Analytics
Amazon Advertising Chartbeat DoubleClick Floodlight Google Publisher Tag Google Tag Manager Prebid
Framework
Amazon Route 53 Facebook Google Domains Google Search Console Google Workspace HSTS Microsoft Open Graph Priority Hints RSS React Varnish Webpack core-js 3.10.2
CDN
Cloudflare Fastly
Hosting
Next.js 15.5.9

All Detected Technologies (23)

Categories CDN Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence Server header in redirect: cloudflare
Categories CDN Website https://www.fastly.com Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence x-served-by: cache-toj-leto2350043-TOJ

Next.js is a React framework for developing single page Javascript applications.

Categories JavaScript frameworks, Web frameworks, Web servers, Static site generator Website https://nextjs.org Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence Script URL: https://cdn.theatlantic.com/_next/static/chunks/polyfills-42372ed130431b0a.js
This technology has a CPE identifier — check for known vulnerabilities Search NVD →
Categories DNS Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence NS record: ns-1221.awsdns-24.org
Categories Analytics Detected by BeaverCheck · Medium Evidence TXT record: facebook-domain-verification=80wgiyf19mxbr8gsmrkza8ibea0ldn
Categories DNS Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence NS record: ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
Categories Analytics Detected by BeaverCheck · Medium Evidence TXT record: google-site-verification=xwzD7yaGemPFo04KQgFzGtuHckXl96DQSbEmKJRu6IE
Categories Email Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence MX record: aspmx.l.google.com

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS.

Categories Security Website https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6797#section-6.1 Detected by BeaverCheck
Categories Analytics Detected by BeaverCheck · Low Evidence TXT record: MS=ms47914283

Open Graph is a protocol that is used to integrate any web page into the social graph.

Categories Miscellaneous Website https://ogp.me Detected by BeaverCheck

Priority Hints exposes a mechanism for developers to signal a relative priority for browsers to consider when fetching resources.

Categories Performance Website https://wicg.github.io/priority-hints/ Detected by BeaverCheck

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

Categories Miscellaneous Website https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Detected by BeaverCheck

React is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components.

Categories JavaScript frameworks Website https://reactjs.org Detected by BeaverCheck
This technology has a CPE identifier — check for known vulnerabilities Search NVD →

Varnish is a reverse caching proxy.

Categories Caching Website https://www.varnish-cache.org Detected by BeaverCheck
This technology has a CPE identifier — check for known vulnerabilities Search NVD →

Webpack is an open-source JavaScript module bundler.

Categories Miscellaneous Website https://webpack.js.org/ Detected by BeaverCheck

core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.

Categories JavaScript libraries Website https://github.com/zloirock/core-js Detected by BeaverCheck

Amazon Advertising (formerly AMS or Amazon Marketing Services) is a service that works in a similar way to pay-per-click ads on Google.

Categories Advertising Website https://advertising.amazon.com Detected by BeaverCheck

Chartbeat is a web analytics service that provides real-time data and insights into website performance, audience engagement, and content effectiveness for publishers and media organizations.

Categories Analytics Website https://chartbeat.com Detected by BeaverCheck
Categories Advertising Website https://support.google.com/ds/answer/6029713?hl=en Detected by BeaverCheck

Google Publisher Tag (GPT) is an ad tagging library for Google Ad Manager which is used to dynamically build ad requests.

Categories Advertising Website https://developers.google.com/publisher-tag/guides/get-started Detected by BeaverCheck

Google Tag Manager is a tag management system (TMS) that allows you to quickly and easily update measurement codes and related code fragments collectively known as tags on your website or mobile app.

Categories Tag managers Website https://www.google.com/tagmanager Detected by BeaverCheck

Prebid is an open-source header bidding wrapper. It forms the core of our Nucleus ad platform, helping maximize revenue and performance for publishers.

Categories Advertising Website https://prebid.org Detected by BeaverCheck

Observations (2)

No build tool detected

A framework (Amazon Route 53) 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.

Complex technology stack detected

23 technologies identified. A complex stack increases maintenance burden and attack surface. Consider whether all components are actively needed.

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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 (81)

Sprint 1: Quick Wins

+8

Highest ROI — low effort, high impact

4 findings 1h → B (81)
  • · Cookie 'atl_uuid' is missing the Secure flag
  • · Cookie 'atltestbucketv1' is missing the Secure flag
  • · Cookie 'is_gdpr' is missing the Secure flag
  • · Cookie 'kppid' is missing the Secure flag

Sprint 2: Core Fixes

Medium effort, high structural impact

1 findings 3h → B (81)
  • · Content-Security-Policy header is missing

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