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US · USD ($) · Estimated Applicable regulations: CCPA/CPRA · ADA Title III Dev cost: $100/hr How jurisdiction is detected
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2026-04-04 16:33 UTC
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🇺🇸 New York
Duration
2.9m
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Audit overview

4 categories need attention: Performance, and 3 others.

Fix Priority Matrix

5 findings

Quick Wins

2

High impact, low effort — start here.

Strategic

3

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

Cookie 'SS_MID' is missing the Secure flag

A cookie without the Secure flag can leak over HTTP — in HSTS-protected sites, this is still a defense-in-depth gap.

Security › Cookie Security
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

Page weighs 14.7 MB (6.5 MB transferred)

Informational: total page weight (uncompressed) and bytes actually transferred over the wire.

Performance › Page Weight Budget
Critical: 5

1 image(s) missing alt attribute

Each image without alt text is a WCAG 1.1.1 failure — invisible to screen-reader users, lost from Google Image Search.

Accessibility › Alt Text Quality
What fixing these means. Your site performs reasonably well, but a few targeted fixes could meaningfully improve results. Your LCP of 24.8s exceeds Google's 2.5s 'Good' threshold and the 1 performance issue below directly contributes to it. The 3 security gaps leave your users exposed — modern browsers increasingly warn visitors about insecure sites. 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.
Your LCP is 24.8s — fixing the 1 performance critical could bring it under Google's 2.5s 'Good' threshold.
1 accessibility issue excludes users who rely on assistive technology.

Business case

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

Return on investment

$775 investment → $10,771/month returns + USD 157,500 risk avoided

Investment
$775
7.8 h · 4 findings
Monthly returns
$10,771
$129,254/yr
Payback
0.1 mo
+16578% Y1
Regulatory risk avoided USD 157,500
Or — fix only the top 3 findings
$6250.1 mo payback · +20581% 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.
$25 — 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

6 barrier(s) likely increasing bounce by ~31%.

Barriers
6
3 crit 3 warn
Bounce delta
+31pp
added vs baseline
Score
61
C
Speed
2
Trust
3
Usability
0
Content
0
Nav
1
  • Page takes 24.8s to load
    Users abandon at ~3s — you're 22.3s over the 2.5s threshold
    → Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
  • Page feels frozen for 4.7s
    Clicks on the primary CTA are ignored while JavaScript runs
    → Break up long tasks; defer non-critical JavaScript to post-hydration
  • Mixed content on HTTPS page
    Browsers block insecure subresources — broken images, missing scripts, warning badge
    → Change http:// URLs inside the page to https:// (or protocol-relative)
  • 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

$775 7.8 developer hours at $100/hr
Quick wins
$25 1 fixes in ~15 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

$10,771 / month at risk ~$129,254 / year if left unfixed
Default is 10,000. Use your own number for accurate $-figures.

Compliance Risk

$157,500

ADA Title IIICCPA/CPRA
  • No privacy policy link detected
    CCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
  • 1 image(s) missing alt attribute
    ADA Title III: USD 25,000 – USD 150,000
  • 43 image-only link(s) without alt text
    ADA Title III: USD 25,000 – USD 150,000

Bounce-Rate Cost

$10,770 /mo

+30.8pp bounce · ~3,077 lost visitors/mo

CPC: USD 3.50

Bandwidth Waste

$1.64 /mo

20462.0 MB/mo × 0.080 USD/GB

  • Optimize transfer: save ~2.0 MB per page load
    Saves $1.64/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 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

Bounce-rate model & assumptions

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

Lighthouse

Mobile

25
Performance Overall performance score (0–100) based on Core Web Vitals and other metrics. 90+ is good.
97
Accessibility Measures how accessible the page is for users with disabilities. Checks color contrast, ARIA labels, and semantic HTML.
77
Best Practices Checks for modern web development best practices including HTTPS, no console errors, and secure JavaScript.
92
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.

8.03 s

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

24.77 s

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

4.68 s

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

0.000

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

16.76 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.

27.82 s

Desktop

55
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.
73
Best Practices Checks for modern web development best practices including HTTPS, no console errors, and secure JavaScript.
92
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.

1.11 s

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

2.01 s

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

600 ms

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

0.000

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

6.28 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.

5.54 s

Categories

8
Avg score 75.6

How you compare

Where this site stands against peers running the same stack.

Amazon Webstore · 44 peers
You 72
·
Avg 71
At average
0 50 100
Better than 47% of Amazon Webstore sites See full Amazon Webstore benchmark →
Squarespace Commerce · 13 peers
You 72
·
Avg 75
At average
0 50 100
Better than 23% of Squarespace Commerce sites See full Squarespace Commerce benchmark →

Technology stack

Squarespace 7, hosted on Snowplow Analytics

22 technologies detected 5 stack layers 1 with CPE identifier Enterprise

Stack Architecture

Analytics
Ahrefs Amazon Advertising Facebook Pixel Google Analytics Google Tag Manager Microsoft Advertising Pinterest Conversion Tag Statsig 3.18.0 Teads
Ecommerce
Amazon Webstore Squarespace Commerce 7
CMS
Squarespace 7
Framework
Facebook SDK Framer Motion HSTS Open Graph Priority Hints Sentry Tailwind CSS TrustArc core-js 3.26.0
Hosting
Snowplow Analytics

All Detected Technologies (22)

Snowplow is an open-source behavioral data management platform for businesses.

Categories Analytics, IaaS Website https://snowplowanalytics.com Detected by BeaverCheck

Squarespace provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for website building and hosting, and allows users to use pre-built website templates.

Categories CMS Website https://www.squarespace.com Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence Error page title: "Moved — Squarespace"

Amazon Webstore is an all-in-one hosted ecommerce website solution.

Squarespace Commerce is an ecommerce platform designed to facilitate the creation of websites and online stores, with domain registration and web hosting included.

Categories Ecommerce Website https://www.squarespace.com/ecommerce-website Detected by BeaverCheck
Categories Analytics Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence Script URL contains connect.facebook.net: https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js

Framer Motion is a modern animation library for JavaScript, React, and Vue.

Categories JavaScript libraries Website https://motion.dev Detected by BeaverCheck

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS.

Categories Security Website https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6797#section-6.1 Detected by BeaverCheck

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

Priority Hints exposes a mechanism for developers to signal a relative priority for browsers to consider when fetching resources.

Categories Performance Website https://wicg.github.io/priority-hints/ Detected by BeaverCheck

Sentry is an open-source platform for workflow productivity, aggregating errors from across the stack in real time.

Categories Issue trackers Website https://sentry.io/ Detected by BeaverCheck
This technology has a CPE identifier — check for known vulnerabilities Search NVD →
Categories Framework Website https://tailwindcss.com Detected by BeaverCheck · Medium Evidence Found 6 unique Tailwind utility classes in HTML

TrustArc provides software and services to help corporations update their privacy management processes so they comply with government laws and best practices.

Categories Cookie compliance Website https://trustarc.com Detected by BeaverCheck

core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.

Categories JavaScript libraries Website https://github.com/zloirock/core-js Detected by BeaverCheck

Ahrefs is an online toolset utilised for search engine optimisation (SEO) and competitor analysis, which permits users to analyse their website's performance, track keyword rankings, identify backlink opportunities, and research competitors' websites, among other features.

Categories SEO, Analytics Website https://ahrefs.com Detected by BeaverCheck

Amazon Advertising (formerly AMS or Amazon Marketing Services) is a service that works in a similar way to pay-per-click ads on Google.

Categories Advertising Website https://advertising.amazon.com Detected by BeaverCheck

Facebook pixel is an analytics tool that allows you to measure the effectiveness of your advertising.

Categories Analytics Website https://facebook.com Detected by BeaverCheck

Google Analytics is a free web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic.

Categories Analytics Website https://google.com/analytics Detected by BeaverCheck

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.

Categories Tag managers Website https://www.google.com/tagmanager Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence Script URL contains www.googletagmanager.com: https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=DC-9658484&cx=c&gtm=4e6411

Microsoft Advertising is an online advertising platform developed by Microsoft.

Categories Advertising Website https://ads.microsoft.com Detected by BeaverCheck Evidence Script URL contains bat.bing.com: https://bat.bing.com/bat.js

Pinterest Conversion Tag allows you to track actions people take on your website after viewing your Promoted Pin.

Categories Analytics Website https://www.pinterest.com.au/business/ Detected by BeaverCheck

Statsig is a modern product experimentation platform that helps product teams continuously measure impact of every single feature they launch.

Categories Analytics, Feature management Website https://statsig.com/ Detected by BeaverCheck

Teads is a technology provider that sells ads on publisher websites.

Categories Advertising Website https://www.teads.com Detected by BeaverCheck

Observations (2)

No build tool detected

A framework (Facebook SDK) 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 · 8h total → projected B (82)

Sprint 1: Quick Wins

+5

Highest ROI — low effort, high impact

2 findings 0h → C (77)
  • · Page weighs 14.7 MB (6.5 MB transferred)
  • · Cookie 'SS_MID' is missing the Secure flag

Sprint 2: Core Fixes

+5

Medium effort, high structural impact

3 findings 8h → B (82)
  • · 1 image(s) missing alt attribute
  • · Content-Security-Policy header is missing
  • · No Content-Security-Policy header found

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