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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202647 issues · 107 checks

This review found 47 issues worth fixing on gstarcad.net, 18 of them high impact, across 107 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
4.2 s2.8 sMay 2Oct 173.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20264.0 s
May 9, 20264.0 s
May 16, 20263.8 s
May 23, 20264.0 s
May 30, 20264.0 s
Jun 6, 20263.9 s
Jun 13, 20263.7 s
Jun 20, 20263.5 s
Jun 27, 20263.2 s
Jul 4, 20263.1 s
Jul 11, 20263.1 s
Jul 18, 20263.1 s
Jul 25, 20263.1 s
Aug 1, 20263.1 s
Aug 8, 20263.1 s
Aug 15, 20263.1 s
Aug 22, 20263.0 s
Aug 29, 20263.0 s
Sep 5, 20262.9 s
Sep 12, 20263.0 s
Sep 19, 20263.1 s
Sep 26, 20263.2 s
Oct 3, 20263.2 s
Oct 10, 20263.2 s
Oct 17, 20263.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
279 ms103 msMay 2Oct 17259 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 2026136 ms
May 9, 2026136 ms
May 16, 2026135 ms
May 23, 2026136 ms
May 30, 2026135 ms
Jun 6, 2026135 ms
Jun 13, 2026133 ms
Jun 20, 2026136 ms
Jun 27, 2026136 ms
Jul 4, 2026133 ms
Jul 11, 2026133 ms
Jul 18, 2026127 ms
Jul 25, 2026130 ms
Aug 1, 2026131 ms
Aug 8, 2026132 ms
Aug 15, 2026132 ms
Aug 22, 2026130 ms
Aug 29, 2026124 ms
Sep 5, 2026123 ms
Sep 12, 2026124 ms
Sep 19, 2026128 ms
Sep 26, 2026156 ms
Oct 3, 2026187 ms
Oct 10, 2026220 ms
Oct 17, 2026259 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

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Speed

11 to fix31
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    4.4 s · 3.0 MB

    94 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.0 MB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    2.7 s · 604 KiB

    About 604 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    3.1 s

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.1 s.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 1.7 s of main-thread work and 1.3 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Mobile performance score: 31

    31/100

    Your mobile performance score is 31 (desktop: 62). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 4.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Clarity and others), adding 1.7 MB and 2.3 s of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    350 ms · 1.1 MB

    10 images could be 1.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    450 ms · 990 KiB

    About 990 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Facebook adds 487 ms

    487 ms

    Facebook costs a phone 487 ms of main-thread work and 318 KiB 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.

  • 18 long tasks on the main thread

    18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 466 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Document request latency

    44 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    24 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Minify JavaScript

    22 KiB

    22 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 62 but mobile only 31. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • Minify CSS

    10 KiB

    10 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 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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  • Server response: 231 ms

    231 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 231 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

12 to fix33
  • 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.

  • Real-user FCP: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 3.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.9 s

    10.9 s

    Your largest element takes 10.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “GstarRender”.

  • Time to Interactive: 34.3 s

    34.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 34.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 12.1 s

    12.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 12.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.6 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.5 s

    3.5 s

    Real visitors wait 3.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 261 ms

    261 ms

    Real visitors wait 261 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 76% slower for real visitors

    +76%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 136 ms to 259 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 13 images without width and height

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

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  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 21% faster for real visitors

    -21%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.0 s to 3.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.002

    0.002

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.002, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

3 to fix40
  • Page weight: 5.3 MB in 239 requests

    5.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.3 MB in 239 requests on a phone: scripts 2.8 MB (107), images 1.9 MB (62) and stylesheets 483 KiB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 6 images far larger than shown

    840 KiB

    6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example houseplan-icon29.png at 1,920 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 840 KiB.

  • 6 images in older formats

    6 images (1.1 MB) 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 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.50 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.50 g of CO₂e: 180.3 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 load when needed

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

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 9488
  • 9 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 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 (14 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 14 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.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 7 form fields without a label

    7 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (4 elements).

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  • 28 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 32 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 28 passed and 4 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 8381
  • 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 (210 characters)

    Your meta description is 210 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 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.

  • 9 links with vague text

    9 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 6 links crawlers can't follow

    6 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 65 internal links, 35 external

    The homepage links to 65 pages on gstarcad.net and 35 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “CAD Software”.

  • Title: 64 characters

    Your title is a healthy 64 characters: “CAD Software - 2D/3D CAD design and drafting software - GstarCAD”.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.gstarcad.net/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.

2 checks passed
  • 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 (825 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 33 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

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

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9691
  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • 6 distorted images

    6 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    20 of 21 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix83
  • 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.

  • HTTP/1.1 only

    The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

  • No clickjacking protection

    Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

  • 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 (gstarcad.net).

  • Valid certificate (153 days left)

    The certificate from GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R46 DV TLS CA 2026 Q3 verifies for gstarcad.net and is valid for another 153 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://gstarcad.net redirects to the secure version.

  • All 54 links work

    All 54 links checked from your homepage (34 internal, 20 external) answered without errors; 7 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    gstarcad.net 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

    gstarcad.net'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 18 years old

    18 years

    gstarcad.net was registered in Jun 2008 through Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jun 2027

    gstarcad.net is registered until Jun 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix90
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 6 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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.

  • About 665 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 665 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn More” and “Download”.

  • 26 calls to action

    The homepage has 26 calls to action, for example “Download”, “Buy” and “Learn More”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

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

Email authentication

2 to fix35
  • No SPF record

    gstarcad.net has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

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

  • Email authentication score: 35/100

    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.

1 checks passed
  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “k2” and “mail”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel 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.

  • 14 cookies set on arrival

    14

    Opening the homepage sets 14 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.

  • 22 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 22 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • The footer still says © 2013.
  • It loads jQuery 1.12.3, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).

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Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity

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