Audit overview
3 categories need attention: Performance, and 2 others.
Fix Priority Matrix
5 findingsQuick Wins
4High impact, low effort — start here.
Strategic
1High 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)
Page weighs 13.9 MB (4.5 MB transferred)
Informational: total page weight (uncompressed) and bytes actually transferred over the wire.
11 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.
6 control(s) without accessible label
Form controls without labels — assistive tech announces 'edit text' with no context; users can't complete forms.
No <main> landmark found
Without a <main> landmark, screen-reader users can't skip past the navigation to the page content — every page starts with re-reading the menu.
179 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
$167 investment → $17,282/month returns + USD 157,500 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
9 barrier(s) likely increasing bounce by ~37%.
- Page takes 5.6s to loadUsers abandon at ~3s — you're 3.1s over the 2.5s threshold→ Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
- Page feels frozen for 2.0sClicks on the primary CTA are ignored while JavaScript runs→ Break up long tasks; defer non-critical JavaScript to post-hydration
- Mixed content on HTTPS pageBrowsers block insecure subresources — broken images, missing scripts, warning badge→ Change http:// URLs inside the page to https:// (or protocol-relative)
- 6 form field(s) without a labelScreen readers skip unlabeled fields; autofill can't identify them; checkout abandonment spikes→ Associate every input with a visible <label for="…">; add autocomplete attributes
- 52 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
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
$157,500
- No privacy policy link detectedCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- 6 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
$13,038 /mo
+37.3pp bounce · ~3,725 lost visitors/mo
CPC: USD 3.50
Bandwidth Waste
$1.12 /mo
14034.1 MB/mo × 0.080 USD/GB
- Optimize transfer: save ~1.4 MB per page loadSaves $1.12/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.
4.17 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
5.63 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
2.00 s
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.003
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
8.90 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.
32.28 s
Desktop
First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.
1.50 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
2.12 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
86 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.004
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
3.41 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.
6.62 s
Categories
8Performance
Page weighs 13.9 MB (4.5 MB transferred)
Security
All checks pass
Accessibility
11 link(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.
Technology stack
TownNews, on styled-components
Stack Architecture
33Across 
DoubleClick Floodlight 
Google Analytics 
Google Publisher Tag 
Google Tag Manager 
LiveIntent 
RevContent 
Taboola 
Zoominfo 
TownNews 
Admiral 
Bootstrap 3.4.1
Evvnt 
Font Awesome 
Google Font API Google Search Console Google Workspace HSTS 
LazySizes 
Open Graph 
RSS 
React 
Segment 1.81.0
core-js 3.33.0
jQuery 3.6.0 jQuery Migrate 3.3.0
reCAPTCHA 
styled-components 5.3.0All Detected Technologies (28)
Styled components is a CSS-in-JS styling framework that uses tagged template literals in JavaScript.
TownNews is a CMS platform built for local media organizations.
Admiral is a Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform.
Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains CSS and JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, and other interface components.
Evvnt is a digital events marketing and management platform.
Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and Less.
Google Font API is a web service that supports open-source font files that can be used on your web designs.
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS.
LazySizes is a JavaScript library used to delay the loading of images (iframes, scripts, etc) until they come into view.
Open Graph is a protocol that is used to integrate any web page into the social graph.
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.
React is an open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces or UI components.
Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that helps you collect, clean, and control your customer data.
core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.
jQuery is a JavaScript library which is a free, open-source software designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax.
Query Migrate is a javascript library that allows you to preserve the compatibility of your jQuery code developed for versions of jQuery older than 1.9.
reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse.
33Across is a technology company focused on solving the challenge of consumer attention for automated advertising.
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.
LiveIntent is an email ad monetization platform.
RevContent is a monetization and recommendation engine that connects advertisers to highly engaged audiences on the web's leading publisher sites.
Taboola is a content discovery & native advertising platform for publishers and advertisers.
ZoomInfo provides actionable B2B contact and company information for sales and marketing teams.
Observations (5)
Runtime exposed via X-Powered-By header
The X-Powered-By header reveals 'styled-components 5.3.0'. Remove this header in production to reduce information leakage.
jQuery loaded alongside a modern framework
Both jQuery and React are loaded. Modern frameworks handle DOM manipulation natively. jQuery may be unnecessary and adds ~30KB to the page weight. Check the Performance tab for bundle analysis.
No build tool detected
A framework (Admiral) 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.
Bootstrap version may be outdated
Detected Bootstrap 3.4.1. The current major version is 5. Consider updating for security patches and new features.
Complex technology stack detected
28 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 · 2h total → projected C (78)
Sprint 1: Quick Wins
+6Highest ROI — low effort, high impact
- · Page weighs 13.9 MB (4.5 MB transferred)
- · No <main> landmark found
- · 11 link(s) with no accessible text
- · 179 third-party resources (100% of weight)
Sprint 2: Core Fixes
+1Medium effort, high structural impact
- · 6 control(s) without accessible label