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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202628 issues · 102 checks

This review found 28 issues worth fixing on fling.com, 4 of them high impact, across 102 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
2.7 s1.9 sApr 18Oct 32.0 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20262.5 s
Apr 25, 20262.5 s
May 2, 20262.5 s
May 9, 20262.6 s
May 16, 20262.6 s
May 23, 20262.6 s
May 30, 20262.6 s
Jun 6, 20262.6 s
Jun 13, 20262.6 s
Jun 20, 20262.6 s
Jun 27, 20262.6 s
Jul 4, 20262.5 s
Jul 11, 20262.5 s
Jul 18, 20262.5 s
Jul 25, 20262.5 s
Aug 1, 20262.5 s
Aug 8, 20262.5 s
Aug 15, 20262.5 s
Aug 22, 20262.6 s
Aug 29, 20262.6 s
Sep 5, 20262.5 s
Sep 12, 20262.4 s
Sep 19, 20262.2 s
Sep 26, 20262.1 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
198 ms183 msApr 18Oct 3186 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 2026185 ms
Apr 25, 2026186 ms
May 2, 2026186 ms
May 9, 2026185 ms
May 16, 2026186 ms
May 23, 2026188 ms
May 30, 2026192 ms
Jun 6, 2026196 ms
Jun 13, 2026196 ms
Jun 20, 2026196 ms
Jun 27, 2026195 ms
Jul 4, 2026194 ms
Jul 11, 2026193 ms
Jul 18, 2026193 ms
Jul 25, 2026194 ms
Aug 1, 2026194 ms
Aug 8, 2026194 ms
Aug 15, 2026194 ms
Aug 22, 2026194 ms
Aug 29, 2026195 ms
Sep 5, 2026195 ms
Sep 12, 2026196 ms
Sep 19, 2026195 ms
Sep 26, 2026189 ms
Oct 3, 2026186 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 fling.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

5 to fix85
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.8 s

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 85

    85/100

    Your mobile performance score is 85 (desktop: 97). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    498 KiB

    18 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (498 KiB).

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.9 MB and 195 ms of main-thread time.

  • cdnhost2000xl.com adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    cdnhost2000xl.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 1.5 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 185 KiB

    About 185 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    200 ms · 102 KiB

    5 images could be 102 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 67 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 0.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 276 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 23 ms

    23 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 23 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.8 s

    3.8 s

    Your largest element takes 3.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “FLING, Date freely! 2,330,096Verified Photos Join Free or C…”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 5.2 s

    5.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 5.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • 9 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 185 ms to 186 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 84 ms

    84 ms

    Real visitors wait 84 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.03

    0.03

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 777 ms

    777 ms

    Real visitors wait 777 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 19% faster for real visitors

    -19%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Speed Index: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 2.7 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.031

    0.031

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.031, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 16 ms

    16 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 16 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.3 MB in 52 requests

    2.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 52 requests on a phone: images 1.8 MB (34), scripts 392 KiB (7) and fonts 43 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.64 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.64 g of CO₂e: 76.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • 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 7887
  • Hidden but focusable

    19 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (27 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 27 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • 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.

  • 20 links without text

    20 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

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  • 28 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 35 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 28 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

3 to fixGoogle 9286
  • Title is long (71 characters)

    Your title is 71 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Fling OFFICIAL | Biggest Dating Site For The Curious! FREE registration”.

  • 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 (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 45 internal links, 3 external

    The homepage links to 45 pages on fling.com and 3 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 135 characters

    Your meta description is 135 characters: “Looking for real connections? Fling matches verified singles in a safe, inclusive community. Find your perfect match wi…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “FLING,Date freely!”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.fling.com/.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.fling.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (939 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix85
  • 1 page points its canonical at the homepage

    /about declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

  • 8 pages without a meta description

    /members/user/registerfp_mobile, /members/user/login, /download/app, /members/info/faqs, /members/info/customerservice and /local and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page with very little text

    /local has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 2 pages slow to respond

    /dating-glossary and /members/info/records took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Google+Sans:wght@300;400:500:600&display=swap' fr…”.

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  • 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.

Security and trust

1 to fix94
  • No HSTS header

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

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 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.

  • No security.txt

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

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (fling.com).

  • Valid certificate (45 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for fling.com and is valid for another 45 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

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

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://fling.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 19 links work

    All 19 links checked from your homepage (16 internal, 3 external) answered without errors; 3 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    fling.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

    fling.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 30 years old

    30 years

    fling.com was registered in Dec 1995 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Dec 2031

    fling.com is registered until Dec 2031.

Content and conversion

2 to fix86
  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 7 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • About 893 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 893 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Join Free”.

  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Join Free”, “Join Free Now” and “Register”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

90
  • Email authentication score: 90/100

    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.

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  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:mail.zendesk.com ip4:208.91.207.0/24 ip4:208.91.205.0/27 ip4:208.91.205.151 ip4:66.165.186.128/25 ip4:34…”.

  • DKIM signing found

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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.

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 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.

  • 14 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Microsoft Clarity

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