Bono | Website Analysis by Allsite Studio

Structure

Product Has Shut Down — Site Not Updated to Reflect This

Score

10

Severity

High

Finding

The most critical finding: a prominent banner at the very top of the homepage reads 'Bono is no longer available — thank you for trying to change the world with us 🖤 Read our last blog post →'. The product has shut down. However, every CTA below this banner — 'Get Started', 'Donate better now', 'Join the community', 'Choose your causes now' — still routes to app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome, a live app URL. The complete homepage copy, cause descriptions, FAQ, and trust content remain intact as if the product were still active. Users who miss the small banner (or visit on mobile where it may be less prominent) will click through all these CTAs expecting a working product.

Recommendation

If the shutdown is permanent, replace the homepage with a simple, respectful sunset page: thank users, acknowledge the mission, link to the final blog post, and remove all 'Get Started' and 'Choose your causes' CTAs that lead to a dead end. If there is any possibility of a future relaunch or pivot, add a clearly visible 'Email me when we're back' capture form. The current state — a full live-looking marketing site with a single-line shutdown notice at the top — is confusing and slightly deceptive for users who care about charitable giving and may donate expecting their money to reach charities.

Structure

Product Has Shut Down — Site Not Updated to Reflect This

Score

10

Severity

High

Finding

The most critical finding: a prominent banner at the very top of the homepage reads 'Bono is no longer available — thank you for trying to change the world with us 🖤 Read our last blog post →'. The product has shut down. However, every CTA below this banner — 'Get Started', 'Donate better now', 'Join the community', 'Choose your causes now' — still routes to app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome, a live app URL. The complete homepage copy, cause descriptions, FAQ, and trust content remain intact as if the product were still active. Users who miss the small banner (or visit on mobile where it may be less prominent) will click through all these CTAs expecting a working product.

Recommendation

If the shutdown is permanent, replace the homepage with a simple, respectful sunset page: thank users, acknowledge the mission, link to the final blog post, and remove all 'Get Started' and 'Choose your causes' CTAs that lead to a dead end. If there is any possibility of a future relaunch or pivot, add a clearly visible 'Email me when we're back' capture form. The current state — a full live-looking marketing site with a single-line shutdown notice at the top — is confusing and slightly deceptive for users who care about charitable giving and may donate expecting their money to reach charities.

Structure

Product Has Shut Down — Site Not Updated to Reflect This

Score

10

Severity

High

Finding

The most critical finding: a prominent banner at the very top of the homepage reads 'Bono is no longer available — thank you for trying to change the world with us 🖤 Read our last blog post →'. The product has shut down. However, every CTA below this banner — 'Get Started', 'Donate better now', 'Join the community', 'Choose your causes now' — still routes to app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome, a live app URL. The complete homepage copy, cause descriptions, FAQ, and trust content remain intact as if the product were still active. Users who miss the small banner (or visit on mobile where it may be less prominent) will click through all these CTAs expecting a working product.

Recommendation

If the shutdown is permanent, replace the homepage with a simple, respectful sunset page: thank users, acknowledge the mission, link to the final blog post, and remove all 'Get Started' and 'Choose your causes' CTAs that lead to a dead end. If there is any possibility of a future relaunch or pivot, add a clearly visible 'Email me when we're back' capture form. The current state — a full live-looking marketing site with a single-line shutdown notice at the top — is confusing and slightly deceptive for users who care about charitable giving and may donate expecting their money to reach charities.

UX

All Conversion CTAs Route to a Potentially Dead App

Score

18

Severity

High

Finding

Beyond the shutdown banner, every button on the page — 'Get started', 'Help the Oceans', 'Join the community', 'Choose your causes now', 'Donate better now' — links to app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome. If the product is shut down, these links lead users into a broken or abandoned app flow. This creates a frustrating and confusing experience for someone arriving via an old link, a Google search, or a TechCrunch article recommendation — they see an attractive proposition, don't notice the small banner, click a CTA, and encounter a dead end.

Recommendation

Immediately audit what app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome currently serves. If it is a broken or inaccessible page, redirect all app.bono.so links to the sunset page or the final blog post. At minimum, add a second, more prominent shutdown notice directly inside the hero section above the main CTA — not just a top-of-page banner that users may scroll past or miss on first glance.

UX

All Conversion CTAs Route to a Potentially Dead App

Score

18

Severity

High

Finding

Beyond the shutdown banner, every button on the page — 'Get started', 'Help the Oceans', 'Join the community', 'Choose your causes now', 'Donate better now' — links to app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome. If the product is shut down, these links lead users into a broken or abandoned app flow. This creates a frustrating and confusing experience for someone arriving via an old link, a Google search, or a TechCrunch article recommendation — they see an attractive proposition, don't notice the small banner, click a CTA, and encounter a dead end.

Recommendation

Immediately audit what app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome currently serves. If it is a broken or inaccessible page, redirect all app.bono.so links to the sunset page or the final blog post. At minimum, add a second, more prominent shutdown notice directly inside the hero section above the main CTA — not just a top-of-page banner that users may scroll past or miss on first glance.

UX

All Conversion CTAs Route to a Potentially Dead App

Score

18

Severity

High

Finding

Beyond the shutdown banner, every button on the page — 'Get started', 'Help the Oceans', 'Join the community', 'Choose your causes now', 'Donate better now' — links to app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome. If the product is shut down, these links lead users into a broken or abandoned app flow. This creates a frustrating and confusing experience for someone arriving via an old link, a Google search, or a TechCrunch article recommendation — they see an attractive proposition, don't notice the small banner, click a CTA, and encounter a dead end.

Recommendation

Immediately audit what app.bono.so/newflow1/welcome currently serves. If it is a broken or inaccessible page, redirect all app.bono.so links to the sunset page or the final blog post. At minimum, add a second, more prominent shutdown notice directly inside the hero section above the main CTA — not just a top-of-page banner that users may scroll past or miss on first glance.

Brand

Trust Architecture — Impressive but Now Potentially Misleading

Score

30

Severity

Medium

Finding

The 'Who's behind Bono' section contains a strong institutional trust narrative: JPMorgan Chase as bank, Ernst & Young as controller, Moss Adams for tax, Sidley Austin LLP for legal, and Adler & Colvin for the foundation. Progression.Fund plus angels from Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intuit. This was a genuinely impressive trust stack for a $1.6M pre-seed charity platform. However with the product shut down, this content now creates a liability: users may rely on these institutional affiliations to make donation decisions, unaware that the product is no longer operational.

Recommendation

The institutional trust section should either be removed from the shutdown version of the site or accompanied by explicit language that all donation processing has ceased. The 501(c)(3) foundation details especially need clarity — are the Bono Way Charitable Foundation's obligations to existing donors being fulfilled? The shutdown blog post should address this directly, and a link to it should be prominent on every page of the site.

Brand

Trust Architecture — Impressive but Now Potentially Misleading

Score

30

Severity

Medium

Finding

The 'Who's behind Bono' section contains a strong institutional trust narrative: JPMorgan Chase as bank, Ernst & Young as controller, Moss Adams for tax, Sidley Austin LLP for legal, and Adler & Colvin for the foundation. Progression.Fund plus angels from Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intuit. This was a genuinely impressive trust stack for a $1.6M pre-seed charity platform. However with the product shut down, this content now creates a liability: users may rely on these institutional affiliations to make donation decisions, unaware that the product is no longer operational.

Recommendation

The institutional trust section should either be removed from the shutdown version of the site or accompanied by explicit language that all donation processing has ceased. The 501(c)(3) foundation details especially need clarity — are the Bono Way Charitable Foundation's obligations to existing donors being fulfilled? The shutdown blog post should address this directly, and a link to it should be prominent on every page of the site.

Brand

Trust Architecture — Impressive but Now Potentially Misleading

Score

30

Severity

Medium

Finding

The 'Who's behind Bono' section contains a strong institutional trust narrative: JPMorgan Chase as bank, Ernst & Young as controller, Moss Adams for tax, Sidley Austin LLP for legal, and Adler & Colvin for the foundation. Progression.Fund plus angels from Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intuit. This was a genuinely impressive trust stack for a $1.6M pre-seed charity platform. However with the product shut down, this content now creates a liability: users may rely on these institutional affiliations to make donation decisions, unaware that the product is no longer operational.

Recommendation

The institutional trust section should either be removed from the shutdown version of the site or accompanied by explicit language that all donation processing has ceased. The 501(c)(3) foundation details especially need clarity — are the Bono Way Charitable Foundation's obligations to existing donors being fulfilled? The shutdown blog post should address this directly, and a link to it should be prominent on every page of the site.

Copy

Shutdown Notice — Insufficient Prominence and Information

Score

22

Severity

High

Finding

The shutdown banner ('Bono is no longer available — thank you for trying to change the world with us 🖤 Read our last blog post →') is a single line at the very top of the page, styled similarly to a promotional announcement strip. There is no explanation of what happens to existing donors' planned contributions, no information about outstanding donation receipts, no guidance for existing users on how to access their giving history, and no information about the status of the 501(c)(3) foundation. For a product that handled people's charitable donations, this level of closure communication is inadequate.

Recommendation

Expand the shutdown notice to a full page or at minimum a prominent modal on first visit, covering: (1) what happens to any pending or future scheduled donations, (2) how existing donors can access their tax receipts, (3) the status of donations already in transit to charities, (4) how to contact the team for any outstanding issues, and (5) what the foundation's ongoing obligations are. Brevity is respectful but inadequacy on a platform that handled people's charitable money is a trust and potentially legal issue.

Copy

Shutdown Notice — Insufficient Prominence and Information

Score

22

Severity

High

Finding

The shutdown banner ('Bono is no longer available — thank you for trying to change the world with us 🖤 Read our last blog post →') is a single line at the very top of the page, styled similarly to a promotional announcement strip. There is no explanation of what happens to existing donors' planned contributions, no information about outstanding donation receipts, no guidance for existing users on how to access their giving history, and no information about the status of the 501(c)(3) foundation. For a product that handled people's charitable donations, this level of closure communication is inadequate.

Recommendation

Expand the shutdown notice to a full page or at minimum a prominent modal on first visit, covering: (1) what happens to any pending or future scheduled donations, (2) how existing donors can access their tax receipts, (3) the status of donations already in transit to charities, (4) how to contact the team for any outstanding issues, and (5) what the foundation's ongoing obligations are. Brevity is respectful but inadequacy on a platform that handled people's charitable money is a trust and potentially legal issue.

Copy

Shutdown Notice — Insufficient Prominence and Information

Score

22

Severity

High

Finding

The shutdown banner ('Bono is no longer available — thank you for trying to change the world with us 🖤 Read our last blog post →') is a single line at the very top of the page, styled similarly to a promotional announcement strip. There is no explanation of what happens to existing donors' planned contributions, no information about outstanding donation receipts, no guidance for existing users on how to access their giving history, and no information about the status of the 501(c)(3) foundation. For a product that handled people's charitable donations, this level of closure communication is inadequate.

Recommendation

Expand the shutdown notice to a full page or at minimum a prominent modal on first visit, covering: (1) what happens to any pending or future scheduled donations, (2) how existing donors can access their tax receipts, (3) the status of donations already in transit to charities, (4) how to contact the team for any outstanding issues, and (5) what the foundation's ongoing obligations are. Brevity is respectful but inadequacy on a platform that handled people's charitable money is a trust and potentially legal issue.

SEO

Copyright Footer Shows 2025 — Inconsistent with Shutdown

Score

35

Severity

Low

Finding

The footer reads 'BONO ©2025 All rights reserved' — suggesting the site was last meaningfully updated in 2025, consistent with the shutdown. However this is now displayed on a site in 2026 with an active (if misleading) marketing presence. The footer's 2025 date and the continued presence of live-looking CTAs create a temporal inconsistency that compounds the confusing state of the site. Minor in isolation, but part of the pattern of under-maintained shutdown communication.

Recommendation

Update footer copyright to ©2026 and add a 'Site archived [date of shutdown]' notation. If the site is being preserved as an archive (which is a legitimate and respectful choice), make that framing explicit: 'Bono has closed. This site is preserved as a record of our work. Thank you for being part of the Bono community.' This framing is honest, dignified, and prevents the confusion caused by a site that looks operational but isn't.

SEO

Copyright Footer Shows 2025 — Inconsistent with Shutdown

Score

35

Severity

Low

Finding

The footer reads 'BONO ©2025 All rights reserved' — suggesting the site was last meaningfully updated in 2025, consistent with the shutdown. However this is now displayed on a site in 2026 with an active (if misleading) marketing presence. The footer's 2025 date and the continued presence of live-looking CTAs create a temporal inconsistency that compounds the confusing state of the site. Minor in isolation, but part of the pattern of under-maintained shutdown communication.

Recommendation

Update footer copyright to ©2026 and add a 'Site archived [date of shutdown]' notation. If the site is being preserved as an archive (which is a legitimate and respectful choice), make that framing explicit: 'Bono has closed. This site is preserved as a record of our work. Thank you for being part of the Bono community.' This framing is honest, dignified, and prevents the confusion caused by a site that looks operational but isn't.

SEO

Copyright Footer Shows 2025 — Inconsistent with Shutdown

Score

35

Severity

Low

Finding

The footer reads 'BONO ©2025 All rights reserved' — suggesting the site was last meaningfully updated in 2025, consistent with the shutdown. However this is now displayed on a site in 2026 with an active (if misleading) marketing presence. The footer's 2025 date and the continued presence of live-looking CTAs create a temporal inconsistency that compounds the confusing state of the site. Minor in isolation, but part of the pattern of under-maintained shutdown communication.

Recommendation

Update footer copyright to ©2026 and add a 'Site archived [date of shutdown]' notation. If the site is being preserved as an archive (which is a legitimate and respectful choice), make that framing explicit: 'Bono has closed. This site is preserved as a record of our work. Thank you for being part of the Bono community.' This framing is honest, dignified, and prevents the confusion caused by a site that looks operational but isn't.

Freshness

All CTA App Links Are Live — Creators Terms Links to Google Doc

Score

32

Severity

Medium

Finding

The footer contains a 'Creators Terms' link that routes directly to a public Google Docs URL (docs.google.com/document/d/...). For a platform that processed charitable donations and had formal legal representation from Sidley Austin LLP, routing legal terms of service to a raw Google Doc was always a credibility gap — and now that the product is shut down, this Google Doc likely remains publicly editable or at minimum unmanaged. The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy link to bono.so pages but the Creators Terms is entirely off-domain.

Recommendation

Archive the Creators Terms as a PDF hosted on bono.so or redirect the link to the final blog post / shutdown notice. An unmanaged public Google Doc containing legal terms for a shut-down platform is a loose end — it could be edited, deleted, or accessed in ways that misrepresent the historical terms of the service. Preserving it as a static, clearly dated PDF on the bono.so domain is the responsible archival approach.

Freshness

All CTA App Links Are Live — Creators Terms Links to Google Doc

Score

32

Severity

Medium

Finding

The footer contains a 'Creators Terms' link that routes directly to a public Google Docs URL (docs.google.com/document/d/...). For a platform that processed charitable donations and had formal legal representation from Sidley Austin LLP, routing legal terms of service to a raw Google Doc was always a credibility gap — and now that the product is shut down, this Google Doc likely remains publicly editable or at minimum unmanaged. The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy link to bono.so pages but the Creators Terms is entirely off-domain.

Recommendation

Archive the Creators Terms as a PDF hosted on bono.so or redirect the link to the final blog post / shutdown notice. An unmanaged public Google Doc containing legal terms for a shut-down platform is a loose end — it could be edited, deleted, or accessed in ways that misrepresent the historical terms of the service. Preserving it as a static, clearly dated PDF on the bono.so domain is the responsible archival approach.

Freshness

All CTA App Links Are Live — Creators Terms Links to Google Doc

Score

32

Severity

Medium

Finding

The footer contains a 'Creators Terms' link that routes directly to a public Google Docs URL (docs.google.com/document/d/...). For a platform that processed charitable donations and had formal legal representation from Sidley Austin LLP, routing legal terms of service to a raw Google Doc was always a credibility gap — and now that the product is shut down, this Google Doc likely remains publicly editable or at minimum unmanaged. The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy link to bono.so pages but the Creators Terms is entirely off-domain.

Recommendation

Archive the Creators Terms as a PDF hosted on bono.so or redirect the link to the final blog post / shutdown notice. An unmanaged public Google Doc containing legal terms for a shut-down platform is a loose end — it could be edited, deleted, or accessed in ways that misrepresent the historical terms of the service. Preserving it as a static, clearly dated PDF on the bono.so domain is the responsible archival approach.

Structure

Nav Links Still Active Post-Shutdown

Score

25

Severity

Medium

Finding

The main navigation still contains working links: How Bono Works, The Bono App, Causes & Charities, Read&Give, For Charities, Blog, FAQ, Get started. The 'For Charities' and 'Read&Give' pages presumably still exist and may be equally misleading to new visitors — particularly charities who might expect to be able to apply to be featured on the platform. None of these nav items have been updated to reflect the shutdown.

Recommendation

Simplify the nav to a minimal archive state: Home (shutdown notice), Blog (preserved posts), and Contact. Redirect For Charities, Read&Give, and the app onboarding links to the shutdown notice or the final blog post. Preserving the full nav on a shut-down product implies ongoing operations to visitors who arrive with intent to use the service.

Structure

Nav Links Still Active Post-Shutdown

Score

25

Severity

Medium

Finding

The main navigation still contains working links: How Bono Works, The Bono App, Causes & Charities, Read&Give, For Charities, Blog, FAQ, Get started. The 'For Charities' and 'Read&Give' pages presumably still exist and may be equally misleading to new visitors — particularly charities who might expect to be able to apply to be featured on the platform. None of these nav items have been updated to reflect the shutdown.

Recommendation

Simplify the nav to a minimal archive state: Home (shutdown notice), Blog (preserved posts), and Contact. Redirect For Charities, Read&Give, and the app onboarding links to the shutdown notice or the final blog post. Preserving the full nav on a shut-down product implies ongoing operations to visitors who arrive with intent to use the service.

Structure

Nav Links Still Active Post-Shutdown

Score

25

Severity

Medium

Finding

The main navigation still contains working links: How Bono Works, The Bono App, Causes & Charities, Read&Give, For Charities, Blog, FAQ, Get started. The 'For Charities' and 'Read&Give' pages presumably still exist and may be equally misleading to new visitors — particularly charities who might expect to be able to apply to be featured on the platform. None of these nav items have been updated to reflect the shutdown.

Recommendation

Simplify the nav to a minimal archive state: Home (shutdown notice), Blog (preserved posts), and Contact. Redirect For Charities, Read&Give, and the app onboarding links to the shutdown notice or the final blog post. Preserving the full nav on a shut-down product implies ongoing operations to visitors who arrive with intent to use the service.

Brand

Name Disambiguation — U2's Bono Still a Confusion Point

Score

48

Severity

Low

Finding

The FAQ includes 'Is the singer Bono in on this?' — a question they anticipated and addressed with light humour. The name collision with one of the world's most famous activists is an ongoing SEO and brand challenge: Google searches for 'Bono donate' or 'Bono charity' will surface a mix of U2-related and Bono.so content. This was always a brand liability, and it's particularly relevant post-shutdown because new visitors discovering the site through search may have been looking for content about Bono the singer's philanthropic work and are instead encountering a shut-down app with misleading active CTAs.

Recommendation

This is a historical note rather than an actionable recommendation for a shut-down product, but for any future relaunch or successor project: the name Bono.so creates persistent disambiguation confusion in search, especially in the charitable giving and social impact space where the singer's name is prominent. A cleaner namespace would help future discoverability.

Brand

Name Disambiguation — U2's Bono Still a Confusion Point

Score

48

Severity

Low

Finding

The FAQ includes 'Is the singer Bono in on this?' — a question they anticipated and addressed with light humour. The name collision with one of the world's most famous activists is an ongoing SEO and brand challenge: Google searches for 'Bono donate' or 'Bono charity' will surface a mix of U2-related and Bono.so content. This was always a brand liability, and it's particularly relevant post-shutdown because new visitors discovering the site through search may have been looking for content about Bono the singer's philanthropic work and are instead encountering a shut-down app with misleading active CTAs.

Recommendation

This is a historical note rather than an actionable recommendation for a shut-down product, but for any future relaunch or successor project: the name Bono.so creates persistent disambiguation confusion in search, especially in the charitable giving and social impact space where the singer's name is prominent. A cleaner namespace would help future discoverability.

Brand

Name Disambiguation — U2's Bono Still a Confusion Point

Score

48

Severity

Low

Finding

The FAQ includes 'Is the singer Bono in on this?' — a question they anticipated and addressed with light humour. The name collision with one of the world's most famous activists is an ongoing SEO and brand challenge: Google searches for 'Bono donate' or 'Bono charity' will surface a mix of U2-related and Bono.so content. This was always a brand liability, and it's particularly relevant post-shutdown because new visitors discovering the site through search may have been looking for content about Bono the singer's philanthropic work and are instead encountering a shut-down app with misleading active CTAs.

Recommendation

This is a historical note rather than an actionable recommendation for a shut-down product, but for any future relaunch or successor project: the name Bono.so creates persistent disambiguation confusion in search, especially in the charitable giving and social impact space where the singer's name is prominent. A cleaner namespace would help future discoverability.

Copy

Impact Quantification Disclaimer — Accurate but Underplayed

Score

50

Severity

Low

Finding

The FAQ acknowledges that impact metrics ('23 farm animals rescued', '270 trees planted') are 'for illustrative purposes only' with a detailed explanation of how the team calculates representative impact. This is genuinely responsible transparency — many charitable platforms overstate or fabricate impact metrics. However, the disclaimer is buried in the FAQ as a question titled 'What's the deal with the note about the charity's impact being for illustrative purposes only?' Meanwhile the homepage prominently displays the impact metrics as headline callouts without equivalent context.

Recommendation

This was a pre-shutdown issue worth noting for any successor effort: impact disclaimer language should appear inline with the metrics it qualifies, not only in a FAQ answer. A small asterisk and one-sentence disclosure near the impact numbers ('*Based on industry benchmarks, for illustrative purposes') would maintain the transparency spirit without burying the clarification where most users never look.

Copy

Impact Quantification Disclaimer — Accurate but Underplayed

Score

50

Severity

Low

Finding

The FAQ acknowledges that impact metrics ('23 farm animals rescued', '270 trees planted') are 'for illustrative purposes only' with a detailed explanation of how the team calculates representative impact. This is genuinely responsible transparency — many charitable platforms overstate or fabricate impact metrics. However, the disclaimer is buried in the FAQ as a question titled 'What's the deal with the note about the charity's impact being for illustrative purposes only?' Meanwhile the homepage prominently displays the impact metrics as headline callouts without equivalent context.

Recommendation

This was a pre-shutdown issue worth noting for any successor effort: impact disclaimer language should appear inline with the metrics it qualifies, not only in a FAQ answer. A small asterisk and one-sentence disclosure near the impact numbers ('*Based on industry benchmarks, for illustrative purposes') would maintain the transparency spirit without burying the clarification where most users never look.

Copy

Impact Quantification Disclaimer — Accurate but Underplayed

Score

50

Severity

Low

Finding

The FAQ acknowledges that impact metrics ('23 farm animals rescued', '270 trees planted') are 'for illustrative purposes only' with a detailed explanation of how the team calculates representative impact. This is genuinely responsible transparency — many charitable platforms overstate or fabricate impact metrics. However, the disclaimer is buried in the FAQ as a question titled 'What's the deal with the note about the charity's impact being for illustrative purposes only?' Meanwhile the homepage prominently displays the impact metrics as headline callouts without equivalent context.

Recommendation

This was a pre-shutdown issue worth noting for any successor effort: impact disclaimer language should appear inline with the metrics it qualifies, not only in a FAQ answer. A small asterisk and one-sentence disclosure near the impact numbers ('*Based on industry benchmarks, for illustrative purposes') would maintain the transparency spirit without burying the clarification where most users never look.

Performance

Multiple S3-Hosted Videos Still Loading on Shutdown Site

Score

40

Severity

Low

Finding

The homepage still loads 4+ video testimonials from bono-webapp-general.s3.amazonaws.com (test01.mp4 through test04.mp4) and a hero video (hero720.mp4) — all from an AWS S3 bucket that may or may not continue to be paid for post-shutdown. If the S3 bucket is cancelled or goes unpaid, these videos will fail to load and leave blank placeholders across the testimonial section. For a site that is being preserved as an archive, the cost and reliability of S3 video hosting should be explicitly accounted for.

Recommendation

Convert S3-hosted videos to embedded YouTube or Vimeo links (which are free to host indefinitely) or remove the video testimonials entirely and replace with static quotes. S3 costs money monthly — committing to ongoing S3 hosting costs for a shut-down product's archive is an avoidable expense. If the team wants to preserve the testimonials as a record of impact, YouTube or Vimeo embeds achieve the same result at zero cost.

Performance

Multiple S3-Hosted Videos Still Loading on Shutdown Site

Score

40

Severity

Low

Finding

The homepage still loads 4+ video testimonials from bono-webapp-general.s3.amazonaws.com (test01.mp4 through test04.mp4) and a hero video (hero720.mp4) — all from an AWS S3 bucket that may or may not continue to be paid for post-shutdown. If the S3 bucket is cancelled or goes unpaid, these videos will fail to load and leave blank placeholders across the testimonial section. For a site that is being preserved as an archive, the cost and reliability of S3 video hosting should be explicitly accounted for.

Recommendation

Convert S3-hosted videos to embedded YouTube or Vimeo links (which are free to host indefinitely) or remove the video testimonials entirely and replace with static quotes. S3 costs money monthly — committing to ongoing S3 hosting costs for a shut-down product's archive is an avoidable expense. If the team wants to preserve the testimonials as a record of impact, YouTube or Vimeo embeds achieve the same result at zero cost.

Performance

Multiple S3-Hosted Videos Still Loading on Shutdown Site

Score

40

Severity

Low

Finding

The homepage still loads 4+ video testimonials from bono-webapp-general.s3.amazonaws.com (test01.mp4 through test04.mp4) and a hero video (hero720.mp4) — all from an AWS S3 bucket that may or may not continue to be paid for post-shutdown. If the S3 bucket is cancelled or goes unpaid, these videos will fail to load and leave blank placeholders across the testimonial section. For a site that is being preserved as an archive, the cost and reliability of S3 video hosting should be explicitly accounted for.

Recommendation

Convert S3-hosted videos to embedded YouTube or Vimeo links (which are free to host indefinitely) or remove the video testimonials entirely and replace with static quotes. S3 costs money monthly — committing to ongoing S3 hosting costs for a shut-down product's archive is an avoidable expense. If the team wants to preserve the testimonials as a record of impact, YouTube or Vimeo embeds achieve the same result at zero cost.