Audit overview
Security and Accessibility need attention; the other categories are in good shape.
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
Your mail setup has problems.
theonion.org fails 2 mail checks: No DMARC record found, MTA-STS policy file present but DNS record missing. This is the kind of misconfiguration that sends your mail to spam.
Top Priorities (5)
Connection is not encrypted (plain HTTP)
Plain-HTTP sites leak everything — credentials, session cookies, browsing history — to anyone on the network path.
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 favicon or icon links detected
Without a favicon, your tab shows a blank icon and bookmarks look unbranded — amateur signal in every browser surface.
Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy header is missing
COEP enforces that all embedded resources opt-in to cross-origin embedding — required for cross-origin isolation features.
Business case
What fixing the audit's findings is worth -- and what ignoring them keeps costing.
Return on investment
AUD 633 investment → AUD 12,402/month returns
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 ~35%.
- Site is not served over HTTPSBrowsers show "Not Secure" in the URL bar — visitors abandon before reading→ Install a TLS certificate (Let's Encrypt is free) and redirect HTTP → HTTPS
- 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
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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
Bounce-Rate Cost
AUD 12,402 /mo
+35.4pp bounce · ~3,543 lost visitors/mo
CPC: AUD 3.50
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
Categories
4How you compare
Where this site stands against peers running the same stack.
Top 10% of Apache sites score 77+ on Accessibility; you're at 52 — closing this gap is the highest-leverage improvement.
Technology stack
Apache, hosted on Apache HTTP Server
Stack Architecture
Apache Apache HTTP Server All Detected Technologies (2)
Apache is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software.
Observations (1)
Minimal technology footprint
Only 2 technologies detected. This suggests a simple setup with minimal dependencies — excellent for performance and security.
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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 (82)
Sprint 1: Quick Wins
+11Highest ROI — low effort, high impact
- · HSTS header is missing
- · No favicon or icon links detected
- · Connection is not encrypted (plain HTTP)
Sprint 2: Core Fixes
+3Medium effort, high structural impact
- · Content-Security-Policy header is missing
- · Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy header is missing