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GB · GBP (£) · Estimated Applicable regulations: UK GDPR · PECR · Equality Act 2010 Dev cost: £75/hr How jurisdiction is detected
Scanned
2026-04-21 20:23 UTC
Worker
🇺🇸 New York
Duration
44.00s
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Audit overview

Security needs attention; the rest of the categories are in good shape.

Fix Priority Matrix

5 findings

Quick Wins

3

High impact, low effort — start here.

Strategic

2

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

HSTS header is missing

Without HSTS, a network attacker can downgrade the very first connection to HTTP and steal the user's session.

Security › Security Headers
Critical: 3

No Content-Security-Policy header found

Without a CSP, a single XSS bug can exfiltrate everything users type — credentials, payment data, session tokens.

Security › Content Security Policy
Critical: 4

1 link(s) with no accessible text

Links with no accessible text (empty <a></a>, image-only no alt, icon-only no aria-label) are unidentifiable to screen readers.

Accessibility › Link & Button Quality
Warning: 5

19 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.

Performance › Page Weight Inventory
What fixing these means. Your site performs reasonably well, but a few targeted fixes could meaningfully improve results. Your LCP of 4.5s exceeds Google's 2.5s 'Good' threshold and the 1 performance issue below directly contributes to it. Addressing the critical issues below would have the most immediate impact on your user trust.
3 security gaps detected — browsers may warn visitors about your site.
1 accessibility issue excludes users who rely on assistive technology.
Your LCP is 4.5s — fixing the 1 performance critical could bring it under Google's 2.5s 'Good' threshold.

Business case

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

Return on investment

£506 investment → £7,554/month returns + GBP 18,000,000 risk avoided

Investment
£506
6.8 h · 4 findings
Monthly returns
£7,554
£90,644/yr
Payback
0.1 mo
+17805% Y1
Regulatory risk avoided GBP 18,000,000
Or — fix only the top 3 findings
£4690.1 mo payback · +19237% 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.
£56 — 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

4 barrier(s) likely increasing bounce by ~23%.

Barriers
4
2 crit 2 warn
Bounce delta
+23pp
added vs baseline
Score
74
B
Speed
1
Trust
2
Usability
0
Content
0
Nav
1
  • Page takes 4.5s to load
    Users abandon at ~3s — you're 2.0s over the 2.5s threshold
    → Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
  • 3 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
  • No HSTS header
    Returning visitors are briefly exposed to downgrade attacks on first request
    → Set Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
  • 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

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

Remediation cost

£506 6.8 developer hours at £75/hr
Quick wins
£56 2 fixes in ~45 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

£4,926 / month at risk ~£59,118 / year if left unfixed
Default is 10,000. Use your own number for accurate $-figures.

Compliance Risk

£18,000,000

UK GDPRPECR
  • No privacy policy link detected
    UK GDPR: GBP 10,000 – GBP 17,500,000
  • Trackers detected but no cookie policy found
    UK GDPR: GBP 10,000 – GBP 17,500,000
  • Trackers detected but no cookie policy found
    PECR: GBP 1,000 – GBP 500,000

Bounce-Rate Cost

£4,926 /mo

+23.5pp bounce · ~2,346 lost visitors/mo

CPC: GBP 2.10

Bandwidth Waste

£0.08 /mo

1284.9 MB/mo × 0.063 GBP/GB

  • Optimize transfer: save ~128 KB per page load
    Saves £0.08/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 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

Bounce-rate model & assumptions

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

Lighthouse

Mobile

74
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.
100
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.

4.24 s

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

4.47 s

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

0 ms

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

0.001

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

4.24 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.

4.49 s

Desktop

86
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.
100
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.

1.05 s

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

1.11 s

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

0 ms

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

0.205

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

1.05 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.

1.11 s

Categories

8
Avg score 84.4

How you compare

Where this site stands against peers running the same stack.

Wagtail · 27 peers
You 82
·
Avg 76
+6 above average
0 50 100
Better than 96% of Wagtail sites See full Wagtail benchmark →
Adobe Fonts · 238 peers
You 82
·
Avg 73
+9 above average
0 50 100
Better than 98% of Adobe Fonts sites See full Adobe Fonts benchmark →

Technology stack

Wagtail, on Python, hosted on AWS, with AWS CloudFront CDN

16 technologies detected 5 stack layers 3 with CPE identifier Enterprise

Stack Architecture

CMS
Wagtail
Framework
Adobe Fonts Amazon Route 53 Django Font Awesome GOV.UK Frontend Google Font API Google Search Console Microsoft Microsoft 365 Open Graph
Runtime
Python
CDN
AWS CloudFront Amazon CloudFront
Hosting
AWS Amazon Web Services

All Detected Technologies (16)

Categories CDN Website https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence x-amz-cf-id: DrzxgZWRVlxFe-N744GpvM05K_a8nPP6BokGEHTJjx_mJJA3x2XS0w==

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds.

Categories CDN Website https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ Detected by BeaverCheck
Categories Hosting Website https://aws.amazon.com Detected by BeaverCheck · Medium Evidence Header: X-Amz-Cf-Pop

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality.

Categories PaaS Website https://aws.amazon.com/ Detected by BeaverCheck

Python is an interpreted and general-purpose programming language.

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

Wagtail is a Django content management system (CMS) focused on flexibility and user experience.

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

Adobe Fonts is a web-based service providing access to a vast library of high-quality fonts for web and print design.

Categories Font scripts Website https://fonts.adobe.com Detected by BeaverCheck
Categories DNS Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence NS record: ns-1370.awsdns-43.org

Django is a Python-based free and open-source web application framework.

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

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and Less.

Categories Font scripts Website https://fontawesome.com/ Detected by BeaverCheck
Categories UI frameworks Website https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ Detected by BeaverCheck

Google Font API is a web service that supports open-source font files that can be used on your web designs.

Categories Font scripts Website https://fonts.google.com/ Detected by BeaverCheck
Categories Analytics Detected by BeaverCheck · Medium Evidence TXT record: google-site-verification=4vd4W6SkujHXmItMtu5h9GJQ6qlByNLD9dvirB3yGsY
Categories Analytics Detected by BeaverCheck · Low Evidence TXT record: MS=ms12671644
Categories Email Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence MX record: nationalarchives-gov-uk.mail.protection.outlook.com

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

Observations (2)

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

16 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 A (90)

Sprint 1: Quick Wins

+5

Highest ROI — low effort, high impact

3 findings 1h → B (87)
  • · HSTS header is missing
  • · 1 link(s) with no accessible text
  • · 19 third-party resources (100% of weight)

Sprint 2: Core Fixes

+3

Medium effort, high structural impact

2 findings 6h → A (90)
  • · Content-Security-Policy header is missing
  • · No Content-Security-Policy header found

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