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fling.com website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
90AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 186 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 186 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 185 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 186 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 188 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 189 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 186 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
fling.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.8 s3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.
Mobile performance score: 85
85/100Your mobile performance score is 85 (desktop: 97). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
498 KiB18 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 mscdnhost2000xl.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 KiBAbout 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 KiB5 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 msYour server sent the HTML in 23 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.8 s
3.8 sYour 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 sThe 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 sThe 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 sReal 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 msReal visitors wait 84 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.03
0.03For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 777 ms
777 msReal 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 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.7 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.031
0.031The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.031, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 16 ms
16 msScripts block the page for only 16 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.3 MB in 52 requests
2.3 MBYour 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 gBy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
7 checks passed
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 yearsfling.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
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.
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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
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
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before 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
6Opening 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
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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