Global Performance
6/6 locations ✓Excellent global latency — average 60ms across 6 locations, fastest from Santa Clara (13ms), slowest from Singapore (206ms). Fastly edge cache (HIT, HIT). Cache-Control disables caching (no-store).
Audit overview
Compliance needs attention; the rest of the 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
Top Priorities (5)
Cookie '_vm_consent_type' 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.
Page weighs 14.0 MB (4.6 MB transferred)
Informational: total page weight (uncompressed) and bytes actually transferred over the wire.
1 control(s) without accessible label
Form controls without labels — assistive tech announces 'edit text' with no context; users can't complete forms.
No H1 heading found
No H1 means screen-reader users can't identify the page's primary topic, and Google's content-extraction degrades.
1 render-blocking <script src> tag(s) without async/defer
Performance issues directly impact user engagement and conversion rates.
Business case
What fixing the audit's findings is worth -- and what ignoring them keeps costing.
Return on investment
$342 investment → $14,655/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
7 barrier(s) likely increasing bounce by ~30%.
- Page takes 8.9s to loadUsers abandon at ~3s — you're 6.4s over the 2.5s threshold→ Optimize render-blocking resources, preload the hero image, and compress images
- Page feels frozen for 3.1sClicks on the primary CTA are ignored while JavaScript runs→ Break up long tasks; defer non-critical JavaScript to post-hydration
- 4 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
- 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
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
Cost of inaction
Compliance Risk
$157,500
- 2 non-essential cookie(s) set without consent bannerCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- 3 advertising/retargeting trackers detectedCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- Privacy Policy not detectedCCPA/CPRA: USD 2,500 – USD 7,500
- No H1 heading foundADA Title III: USD 25,000 – USD 150,000
- 1 control(s) without accessible labelADA Title III: USD 25,000 – USD 150,000
Bounce-Rate Cost
$7,982 /mo
+29.7pp bounce · ~2,967 lost visitors/mo
CPC: USD 2.69
Bandwidth Waste
$1.15 /mo
14407.9 MB/mo × 0.080 USD/GB
- Optimize transfer: save ~1.4 MB per page loadSaves $1.15/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.
2.33 s
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
8.86 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
3.12 s
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.007
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
8.38 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.
34.11 s
Desktop
First Contentful Paint First Contentful Paint — how long until the browser renders the first piece of content. Under 1.8s is good.
692 ms
Largest Contentful Paint Largest Contentful Paint — how long until the largest visible element loads. Under 2.5s is good.
1.66 s
Total Blocking Time Total Blocking Time — total time the main thread was blocked, preventing user input. Under 200ms is good.
302 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift Cumulative Layout Shift — measures visual stability. How much the page layout shifts during loading. Under 0.1 is good.
0.022
Speed Index Speed Index — how quickly content is visually displayed during load. Under 3.4s is good.
1.88 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.
6.35 s
Categories
8Performance
Page weighs 14.0 MB (4.6 MB transferred)
Security
Cookie '_vm_consent_type' is missing the Secure flag
Accessibility
1 control(s) without accessible label
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 86+ on Compliance; you're at 67 — closing this gap is the highest-leverage improvement.
Technology stack
Vox Media, hosted on Next.js, with Fastly CDN
Stack Architecture
Amazon Advertising 
Concert 
DoubleClick Floodlight 
Google Tag Manager 
comScore 
Vox Media 
WordPress 
Admiral HSTS 
HTTP/3 
MobX 
OneTrust 
Open Graph 
PWA 
Priority Hints 
RSS 
React 
Sentry 
Tailwind CSS 
Varnish 
Webpack 
core-js 2.5.7
reCAPTCHA 
Fastly cdnjs 
Next.js 14.2.25All Detected Technologies (26)
Next.js is a React framework for developing single page Javascript applications.
Vox Media is a digital platform that operates news and opinion websites.
Admiral is a Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform.
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS.
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.
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are web apps built and enhanced with modern APIs to deliver enhanced capabilities, reliability, and installability while reaching anyone, anywhere, on any device, all with a single codebase.
Priority Hints exposes a mechanism for developers to signal a relative priority for browsers to consider when fetching resources.
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.
Sentry is an open-source platform for workflow productivity, aggregating errors from across the stack in real time.
Varnish is a reverse caching proxy.
Webpack is an open-source JavaScript module bundler.
core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.
reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse.
Amazon Advertising (formerly AMS or Amazon Marketing Services) is a service that works in a similar way to pay-per-click ads on Google.
Concert is a publisher-led marketplace for ads by Vox Media.
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 (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.
Complex technology stack detected
26 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 · 3h total → projected B (87)
Sprint 1: Quick Wins
+7Highest ROI — low effort, high impact
- · Page weighs 14.0 MB (4.6 MB transferred)
- · No H1 heading found
- · Cookie '_vm_consent_type' is missing the Secure flag
Sprint 2: Core Fixes
+2Medium effort, high structural impact
- · 1 control(s) without accessible label
- · 1 render-blocking <script src> tag(s) without async/defer