Audit overview
4 categories need attention: Performance, and 3 others.
Fix Priority Matrix
5 findingsQuick Wins
3High impact, low effort — start here.
Strategic
2High 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
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.
No Content-Security-Policy header found
Without a CSP, a single XSS bug can exfiltrate everything users type — credentials, payment data, session tokens.
Page weighs 41.7 MB (33.9 MB transferred)
Informational: total page weight (uncompressed) and bytes actually transferred over the wire.
510 third-party resources (100% of weight)
Informational: third-party resource count and their share of page weight. High share caps perf gains from frontend optimization.
Business case
What fixing the audit's findings is worth -- and what ignoring them keeps costing.
Return on investment
$625 investment → $12,766/month returns + USD 7,500 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
6 barrier(s) likely increasing bounce by ~29%.
- Page takes 10.5s to loadUsers abandon at ~3s — you're 8.0s over the 2.5s threshold→ Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
- Page feels frozen for 4.8sClicks on the primary CTA are ignored while JavaScript runs→ Break up long tasks; defer non-critical JavaScript to post-hydration
- 3 broken link(s) on the pageClicks land on 404s — trust drops and the session often ends→ Fix or remove the broken destinations surfaced on the Content tab
- 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
$7,500
- No privacy policy link detectedCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- 11 advertising/retargeting trackers detectedCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- Trackers detected but no cookie policy foundCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
Bounce-Rate Cost
$7,796 /mo
+29.0pp bounce · ~2,898 lost visitors/mo
CPC: USD 2.69
Bandwidth Waste
$8.53 /mo
106654.5 MB/mo × 0.080 USD/GB
- Optimize transfer: save ~10.7 MB per page loadSaves $8.53/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 4 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.
2.91 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
10.49 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
4.85 s
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.009
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
10.35 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.
31.61 s
Desktop
First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.
1.17 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
1.35 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
847 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.237
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
4.73 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.
9.57 s
Categories
8Performance
Page weighs 41.7 MB (33.9 MB transferred)
Security
Content-Security-Policy header is missing
Accessibility
All checks pass
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.
Top 10% of WordPress sites score 99+ on Infrastructure; you're at 77 — closing this gap is the highest-leverage improvement.
Technology stack
WordPress 6.9.4, on PHP, with Cloudflare CDN
Stack Architecture
Amazon Advertising 
DoubleClick Floodlight 
Google AdSense 
Google Analytics 
Google Publisher Tag 
Google Tag Manager 
ID5 1.0.97
OpenX 
Parse.ly 
Prebid 
PubMatic 
RankMath SEO 
Rubicon Project 
Taboola 
TripleLift 
WordPress Multisite WordPress 6.9.4
AMP 
MySQL 
Open Graph 
Priority Hints 
RSS 
Svelte 
Swiper 
Wurfl 
YouTube 
core-js 3.44.0
reCAPTCHA 
PHP 
Cloudflare 
Nginx All Detected Technologies (31)
Nginx is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language used for web development.
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.
AMP, originally created by Google, is an open-source HTML framework developed by the AMP open-source Project. AMP is designed to help webpages load faster.
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.
Open Graph is a protocol that is used to integrate any web page into the social graph.
Priority Hints exposes a mechanism for developers to signal a relative priority for browsers to consider when fetching resources.
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.
Svelte is a free and open-source front end compiler created by Rich Harris and maintained by the Svelte core team members.
Swiper is a JavaScript library that creates modern touch sliders with hardware-accelerated transitions.
WURFL.js is JavaScript that detects device models of smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and game consoles accessing your website.
YouTube is a video sharing service where users can create their own profile, upload videos, watch, like and comment on other videos.
core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.
reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse.
Amazon Advertising (formerly AMS or Amazon Marketing Services) is a service that works in a similar way to pay-per-click ads on Google.
Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers serve advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience.
Google Analytics is a free web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic.
Google Publisher Tag (GPT) is an ad tagging library for Google Ad Manager which is used to dynamically build ad requests.
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.
ID5 is a company that offers an identity solution for digital advertising, providing a Universal ID that enables privacy-compliant user recognition and tracking across websites without relying on personal information or third-party cookies.
OpenX is a programmatic advertising technology company.
Prebid is an open-source header bidding wrapper. It forms the core of our Nucleus ad platform, helping maximize revenue and performance for publishers.
PubMatic is a company that develops and implements online advertising software and strategies for the digital publishing and advertising industry.
RankMath SEO is a search engine optimisation plugin for WordPress.
Rubicon Project is an advertising automation platform enabling publishers to transact advertising brands.
Taboola is a content discovery & native advertising platform for publishers and advertisers.
TripleLift is an advertising technology company providing native programmatic to buyers and sellers.
A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation core files.
Observations (3)
WordPress detected — review security configuration
WordPress sites benefit from: protecting wp-login.php, disabling XML-RPC if unused, restricting REST API access, and keeping all plugins and themes up to date. Check the Security tab for specific findings.
No build tool detected
A framework (AMP) 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
31 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 · 6h total → projected B (80)
Sprint 1: Quick Wins
+6Highest ROI — low effort, high impact
- · Page weighs 41.7 MB (33.9 MB transferred)
- · HSTS header is missing
- · 510 third-party resources (100% of weight)
Sprint 2: Core Fixes
+3Medium effort, high structural impact
- · Content-Security-Policy header is missing
- · No Content-Security-Policy header found