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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 20 October 202635 issues · 104 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on 7digital.com, 14 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.6 s2.2 sMay 2Oct 172.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20262.4 s
May 9, 20262.4 s
May 16, 20262.5 s
May 23, 20262.5 s
May 30, 20262.5 s
Jun 6, 20262.4 s
Jun 13, 20262.4 s
Jun 20, 20262.3 s
Jun 27, 20262.2 s
Jul 4, 20262.2 s
Jul 11, 20262.2 s
Jul 18, 20262.3 s
Jul 25, 20262.2 s
Aug 1, 20262.2 s
Aug 8, 20262.3 s
Aug 15, 20262.3 s
Aug 22, 20262.4 s
Aug 29, 20262.5 s
Sep 5, 20262.5 s
Sep 12, 20262.5 s
Sep 19, 20262.4 s
Sep 26, 20262.4 s
Oct 3, 20262.4 s
Oct 10, 20262.3 s
Oct 17, 20262.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
119 ms102 msMay 2Oct 17106 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 2026110 ms
May 9, 2026112 ms
May 16, 2026114 ms
May 23, 2026112 ms
May 30, 2026115 ms
Jun 6, 2026116 ms
Jun 13, 2026117 ms
Jun 20, 2026113 ms
Jun 27, 2026111 ms
Jul 4, 2026113 ms
Jul 11, 2026111 ms
Jul 18, 2026112 ms
Jul 25, 2026108 ms
Aug 1, 2026105 ms
Aug 8, 2026107 ms
Aug 15, 2026106 ms
Aug 22, 2026110 ms
Aug 29, 2026110 ms
Sep 5, 2026107 ms
Sep 12, 2026108 ms
Sep 19, 2026106 ms
Sep 26, 2026107 ms
Oct 3, 2026106 ms
Oct 10, 2026104 ms
Oct 17, 2026106 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of 7digital.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. 7digital.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. 7digital.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. 7digital.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. 7digital.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. 7digital.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. 7digital.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. 7digital.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. 7digital.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

7digital.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

3 to fix64
  • Render-blocking requests

    3.2 s

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.2 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.7 s · 221 KiB

    About 221 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.7 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 64

    64/100

    Your mobile performance score is 64 (desktop: 95). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Google CDN and others), adding 446 KiB and 170 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    200 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 44 KiB

    3 images could be 44 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 105 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    43 KiB

    About 43 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    42 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (42 KiB).

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 95 but mobile only 64. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Main-thread work: 0.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 279 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 8.5 s

    8.5 s

    Your largest element takes 8.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Charli xcx - Charli (Explicit)”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.9 s

    3.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.5 s

    8.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.3 s

    5.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 24 images without width and height

    24 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -5%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 110 ms to 106 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.4 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Real visitors wait 2.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 109 ms

    109 ms

    Real visitors wait 109 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.02

    0.02

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user TTFB: 672 ms

    672 ms

    Real visitors wait 672 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 62 ms

    62 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 62 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.21 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.21 g of CO₂e: 24.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed
  • Page weight: 745 KiB in 28 requests

    745 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 745 KiB in 28 requests on a phone: scripts 473 KiB (8), images 109 KiB (8) and fonts 92 KiB (4). That is a lean page.

  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8390
  • 8 text elements with low contrast

    8 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • Links must have discernible text (2 elements)

    Links must have discernible text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 24 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 40 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 7 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 10082
  • Title is long (66 characters)

    Your title is 66 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “7digital United States | High quality DRM-free MP3 music downloads”.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://us.7digital.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 128 internal links, 25 external

    The homepage links to 128 pages on 7digital.com and 25 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Meta description: 159 characters

    Your meta description is 159 characters: “7digital provides a catalogue of over 30 million high-quality music tracks and a wealth of uniquely curated recommendat…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “7digital United States”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://us.7digital.com/.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

AI search readiness

2 to fix53
  • robots.txt blocks 2 AI answer engine crawlers

    2 of 6

    Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User) and Perplexity (PerplexityBot). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

  • Opted out of AI training for 5 crawlers

    robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

1 checks passed
  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (572 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix75
  • 14 linked pages are broken

    Your homepage links to /yourmusic, /features/ZshtHhEAAB8A3ge9/popular-releases, /charts, /genre, /genre/pop and /genre/electronic and 8 others, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 69 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 1 page that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 1 page that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 7385
  • 29 small tap targets

    29 of 65 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • 4 low-resolution images

    4 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

3 to fix75
  • 15 broken links to your own pages

    15 links from your homepage to your own site are broken, for example https://us.7digital.com/signin?return= (405).

  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • 2 links through redirect chains

    2 links go through two or more redirects, for example http://help.7digital.com/.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

5 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (us.7digital.com).

  • Valid certificate (81 days left)

    The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2026 Q2 verifies for 7digital.com and is valid for another 81 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://7digital.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    7digital.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

  • DNSSEC is off

    7digital.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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  • Domain is 26 years old

    26 years

    7digital.com was registered in Mar 2000 through Gandi SAS. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Mar 2027

    7digital.com is registered until Mar 2027.

Content and conversion

3 to fix58
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • No direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 390 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 390 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Sign Up”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Email authentication

1 to fix70
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be 7digital.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 70/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

2 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:192.168.0.0/16 include:smtp.app.echomark.com ip4:84.45.126.189 ip4:79.141.44.58 include:_spf.google.com incl…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google” and “k1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 9 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 9 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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