# Audit Report: Perfectly formed web development team - gotoAndPlay
**Website:** https://play.ee/
**Date:** 02.08.2026
**Audit Coverage:** 100% — all sources returned data
**Confidence:** high
**Pages Audited (5 of 5):**
- https://play.ee/
- https://play.ee/web-development-case-studies/
- https://play.ee/software-development-work-index/
- https://play.ee/wordpress-support-service/
- https://play.ee/web-development-in-estonia/
## Summary of results
**Overall Score:** 76 / 100
**Status:** 🟡 **Needs Improvement**
Site overall 76 is the mean of 5 pages. Scores range 72 (https://play.ee/wordpress-support-service/) → 80 (https://play.ee/web-development-in-estonia/). Weakest page: Mobile performance is excellent (94/100) with strong Core Web Vitals, though LCP sits at 2.6 s just above the 2.5 s threshold. Security configuration is the weakest area, with a 20/100 header grade and HTTP traffic failing to redirect to HTTPS. Accessibility has two serious violations (contrast, link names) and missing landmarks, while HTML validation shows 7 errors including parser recovery failure. The overall score reflects high technical performance offset by significant security and compliance debt.
### Per-page scores
🟡 **Needs Improvement** · https://play.ee/
| Score | Performance | Accessibility | Best Practices | SEO | Security |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 78 | 97 | 100 | 100 | 92 | 20 |
🟡 **Needs Improvement** · https://play.ee/web-development-case-studies/
| Score | Performance | Accessibility | Best Practices | SEO | Security |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 74 | 94 | 90 | 96 | 100 | 20 |
🟡 **Needs Improvement** · https://play.ee/software-development-work-index/
| Score | Performance | Accessibility | Best Practices | SEO | Security |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 74 | 95 | 90 | 96 | 100 | 20 |
🟡 **Needs Improvement** · https://play.ee/wordpress-support-service/
| Score | Performance | Accessibility | Best Practices | SEO | Security |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 72 | 94 | 91 | 100 | 100 | 20 |
🟡 **Needs Improvement** · https://play.ee/web-development-in-estonia/
| Score | Performance | Accessibility | Best Practices | SEO | Security |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 80 | 97 | 94 | 100 | 100 | 20 |
## PageSpeed Insights — Mobile vs Desktop
_Lower is worse for Performance; higher is worse for LCP and CLS. Worse value is **bolded**._
| URL | Performance (M / D) | LCP (M / D) | CLS (M / D) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| https://play.ee/ | **97** / 100 | **2.18 s** / 533 ms | 0.002 / **0.008** |
| https://play.ee/web-development-case-studies/ | **94** / 100 | **2.58 s** / 546 ms | 0.000 / **0.003** |
| https://play.ee/software-development-work-index/ | **95** / 100 | **2.51 s** / 597 ms | **0.041** / 0.003 |
| https://play.ee/wordpress-support-service/ | **94** / 100 | **2.58 s** / 545 ms | 0.000 / **0.003** |
| https://play.ee/web-development-in-estonia/ | **97** / 100 | **2.25 s** / 574 ms | 0.002 / **0.005** |
## Optimization Checklist
**2 of 2 passing** — 2 pass · 0 warn · 0 fail · 5 n/a
| Item | Status | Detail |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Page caching plugin / CDN active | **Pass** | Caching plugin detected (WP Rocket) |
| Images lazy-loaded | N/A | No raster
elements found (39 SVGs, 13 placeholders excluded). |
| Hero image eagerly loaded | N/A | No raster
elements found (39 SVGs, 13 placeholders excluded). |
| Hero is a real
(not a CSS background-image) | N/A | No CSS background-images detected on raster-image-eligible elements. |
| Responsive images (srcset / ) | N/A | Only 0 raster images on the page (39 SVGs, 13 placeholders excluded) — responsive-image rule does not apply. |
| Reasonable number of image sizes | N/A | Too few raster images to evaluate srcset width variety. |
| JS scripts not blocking in | **Pass** | No render-blocking scripts in . |
## Fixes
### Priority 1: Critical
*Immediate action — impacts user experience, search rankings, or site safety.*
**1A. Force HTTPS Redirect** `Security`
- **Impact:** Transport security, downgrade attacks
- **Problem:** Security Headers report states 'http://play.ee/ does not redirect to HTTPS', leaving users vulnerable to downgrade attacks.
- **Solution:**
Configure the web server (Apache/Nginx) to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS:
```apache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```
**1B. Force HTTPS redirect on HTTP requests** `Security`
- **Impact:** Transport security, MITM protection
- **Problem:** Security Headers audit reports 'HTTP redirect: ✗' — http://play.ee/web-development-case-studies/ does not redirect to HTTPS.
- **Solution:**
Configure server (Apache/Nginx) to return 301/302 redirect for all HTTP traffic to HTTPS.
**Apache example:**
```apache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```
**1C. Add HSTS and X-Content-Type-Options headers** `Security`
- **Impact:** Protocol downgrade protection, MIME sniffing
- **Problem:** Security Headers grade 20/100; HSTS and X-Content-Type-Options are missing regardless of site signals.
- **Solution:**
Add headers to server configuration.
**Apache example:**
```apache
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload"
Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
```
**1D. Enable HSTS** `Security`
- **Impact:** Protocol downgrade protection
- **Problem:** strict-transport-security header is missing; security score is 20/100.
- **Solution:**
Add HSTS header with max-age >= 1 year and includeSubDomains.
```apache
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains"
```
**1E. Force HTTPS redirect on HTTP traffic** `Security`
- **Impact:** Transport security, data integrity
- **Problem:** HTTP requests to http://play.ee/wordpress-support-service/ do not redirect to HTTPS, exposing users to potential MITM attacks.
- **Solution:**
Configure the web server (Apache/Nginx) to return a 301 redirect for all HTTP traffic to the HTTPS equivalent:
```apache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```
**1F. Enforce HTTPS redirect for all HTTP requests** `Security`
- **Impact:** Transport security, data integrity
- **Problem:** Security report indicates http://play.ee/... does not redirect to HTTPS, leaving traffic vulnerable to interception.
- **Solution:**
Configure the web server (Apache/Nginx) to return a 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS for all requests:
```apache
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
```
### Priority 2: Important
*Essential for compliance, user reach, and search visibility.*
**2A. Add HSTS and X-Content-Type-Options** `Security`
- **Impact:** Header security grade, MIME sniffing protection
- **Problem:** Security Headers grade is 20/100; HSTS and X-Content-Type-Options are missing despite being cheap baseline defenses.
- **Solution:**
Add the following headers to the server response:
```apache
Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains"
Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
```
**2B. Fix W3C HTML Validation Errors** `Best Practices`
- **Impact:** Parser recovery, rendering consistency
- **Problem:** W3C Validator reports 7 errors including 'Bad start tag in iframe in noscript in head' and parser recovery failure at line 100.
- **Solution:**
Move the GTM iframe snippet out of the `` or ensure it is properly closed within ``. Remove invalid `name` attributes on `` tags inside the head context.
**2C. Add Main Landmark and Skip Link** `Accessibility`
- **Impact:** Screen reader navigation, WCAG 2.4.1
- **Problem:** HTML Inventory shows 'main: missing' and 'Skip-to-content link: missing'; axe-core flags 'region' and 'landmark-unique' violations.
- **Solution:**
Wrap the primary content in `` and add a skip link at the top of the ``:
```html
Skip to content
...
```
**2D. Fix color contrast and add main landmark** `Accessibility`
- **Impact:** WCAG 1.4.3, 1.3.1
- **Problem:** axe-core reports 1 serious violation (color-contrast on .heading__main etc.) and missing `main` landmark.
- **Solution:**
- Increase contrast ratio to ≥4.5:1 for text elements.
- Wrap primary content in `` tag.
- Add skip link: `Skip to content`.
**2E. Add main landmark and fix contrast** `Accessibility`
- **Impact:** Screen reader navigation, WCAG 1.4.3
- **Problem:** PSI `landmark-one-main` failed; axe reports 1 serious color-contrast violation on h1/span.
- **Solution:**
- Wrap primary content in `` tag.
- Increase contrast ratio for `.heading__main` and `p > span` to ≥4.5:1.
- Add skip-to-content link at top of page.
**2F. Fix HTML validation errors** `Best Practices`
- **Impact:** Rendering stability, SEO
- **Problem:** W3C Validator reports 7 errors including malformed `