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appsalad.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202616 issues · 51 checks
This review found 16 issues worth fixing on appsalad.com, 3 of them high impact, across 51 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
87BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.9 s · 625 KiB11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (625 KiB).
Improve image delivery
1.2 s · 500 KiB7 images could be 500 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
350 ms1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 350 ms.
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.
1 third-party service on the page
1 third-party service load with your homepage (workflowemail.com), adding 2 KiB and 3 ms of main-thread time.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 94
94/100Your mobile performance score is 94. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.4 s
A phone's processor spends 0.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 9 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 18 ms
18 msYour server sent the HTML in 18 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.1 s
3.1 sYour largest element takes 3.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Appsalad designs, builds and runs B2B SaaS — from the first…”. Most of its time is element render delay (2.4 s).
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
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Time to Interactive: 3.1 s
3.1 sThe page is fully interactive after 3.1 s.
Speed Index: 2.5 s
2.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.5 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sThe first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
5 images far larger than shown
382 KiB5 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example gluedeasy.jpg at 1,440 px wide, shown at 148 px. Resized copies would save about 382 KiB.
5 images in older formats
5 images (498 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit
0.18 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.18 g of CO₂e: 21.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 658 KiB in 12 requests
658 KiBYour homepage downloads 658 KiB in 12 requests on a phone: images 614 KiB (7), fonts 29 KiB (1) and HTML 6 KiB (1). That is a lean page.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 16 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
41 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 1 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
Meta description is long (178 characters)
Your meta description is 178 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://appsalad.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at appsalad.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
Only 0 internal links
The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.
3 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Fresh ingredients.Timeless software.”.
Title: 41 characters
Your title is a healthy 41 characters: “Appsalad — We build and run SaaS products”.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
AI search readiness
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.
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AI answer engines may read the site
There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (786 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Best practices
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
28 of 28 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 786 words of copy
The homepage carries about 786 words of visible text.
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Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Start a project”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Start a project” and “Contact”.
Privacy and tracking
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.
1 other company contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at appsalad.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
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- Hetzner
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