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 17.3 MB (5.7 MB transferred)
Informational: total page weight (uncompressed) and bytes actually transferred over the wire.
3 button(s) with no accessible text
Buttons with no accessible text (icon-only, no aria-label) can't be activated by voice control or understood by screen readers.
Business case
What fixing the audit's findings is worth -- and what ignoring them keeps costing.
Return on investment
€574 investment → €10,024/month returns + EUR 120,500,000 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 ~25%.
- Page takes 7.3s to loadUsers abandon at ~3s — you're 4.8s over the 2.5s threshold→ Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
- Page feels frozen for 8.8sClicks on the primary CTA are ignored while JavaScript runs→ Break up long tasks; defer non-critical JavaScript to post-hydration
- 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
- 5 link(s) with generic text ("click here", "read more")Screen-reader users navigating by link list see no context — and search engines can't infer relevance→ Rewrite with descriptive phrases that identify the destination
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
€120.500.000
- No privacy policy link detectedGDPR: EUR 10.000 – EUR 20.000.000
- Trackers detected but no cookie policy foundGDPR: EUR 5.000 – EUR 10.000.000
- Trackers detected but no cookie policy foundGDPR: EUR 10.000 – EUR 20.000.000
Bounce-Rate Cost
€5.538 /mo
+25.2pp bounce · ~2,517 lost visitors/mo
CPC: EUR 2.20
Bandwidth Waste
€1,32 /mo
17876.7 MB/mo × 0.074 EUR/GB
- Optimize transfer: save ~1.8 MB per page loadSaves €1,32/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.
4.70 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
7.28 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
8.83 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.
16.25 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.
57.85 s
Desktop
First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.
2.46 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
2.99 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
813 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.015
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
11.81 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.
15.47 s
Categories
8Performance
Page weighs 17.3 MB (5.7 MB transferred)
Security
Content-Security-Policy header is missing
Accessibility
3 button(s) with no accessible text
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 88+ on Performance; you're at 67 — closing this gap is the highest-leverage improvement.
Technology stack
WordPress, hosted on Amazon Web Services, with Amazon S3 CDN
Stack Architecture
Chartbeat 
Google Analytics 
Google Sign-in 
Google Tag Manager 
comScore 
WordPress 
Adobe Fonts Amazon Route 53 
BlueConic Facebook Google Search Console Google Workspace 
HTTP/3 Microsoft 
OneTrust 
Open Graph 
Pushly 
RSS 
core-js 3.42.0
web-vitals 
Amazon S3 
Amazon Web Services All Detected Technologies (22)
Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality.
Adobe Fonts is a web-based service providing access to a vast library of high-quality fonts for web and print design.
BlueConic is the advanced customer data platform that liberates companies' first-party data from disparate systems.
HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web.
OneTrust is a cloud-based data privacy management compliance platform.
Open Graph is a protocol that is used to integrate any web page into the social graph.
Pushly is a web push notification platform that allows businesses to send real-time messages to their website visitors.
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.
core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.
The web-vitals JavaScript is a tiny, modular library for measuring all the web vitals metrics on real users.
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.
Google Analytics is a free web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic.
Google Sign-In is a secure authentication system that reduces the burden of login for users, by enabling them to sign in with their Google account.
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.
comScore is an American media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises; media and advertising agencies; and publishers.
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 (Adobe Fonts) 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
22 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 · 7h total → projected C (79)
Sprint 1: Quick Wins
+6Highest ROI — low effort, high impact
- · Page weighs 17.3 MB (5.7 MB transferred)
- · HSTS header is missing
- · 3 button(s) with no accessible text
Sprint 2: Core Fixes
+4Medium effort, high structural impact
- · Content-Security-Policy header is missing
- · No Content-Security-Policy header found