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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202647 issues · 111 checks

This review found 47 issues worth fixing on launchnotes.io, 17 of them high impact, across 111 checks. The most urgent: minify JavaScript. 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
3.4 s1.9 sMay 16Oct 312.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20262.1 s
May 23, 20262.0 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.1 s
Jun 13, 20262.2 s
Jun 20, 20262.3 s
Jun 27, 20262.3 s
Jul 4, 20262.4 s
Jul 11, 20262.7 s
Jul 18, 20263.0 s
Jul 25, 20263.1 s
Aug 1, 20263.2 s
Aug 8, 20263.1 s
Aug 15, 20262.9 s
Aug 22, 20262.9 s
Aug 29, 20262.7 s
Sep 5, 20262.7 s
Sep 12, 20262.7 s
Sep 19, 20262.8 s
Sep 26, 20262.9 s
Oct 3, 20263.0 s
Oct 10, 20263.1 s
Oct 17, 20263.0 s
Oct 24, 20263.0 s
Oct 31, 20262.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
249 ms146 msMay 16Oct 31226 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026160 ms
May 23, 2026159 ms
May 30, 2026160 ms
Jun 6, 2026158 ms
Jun 13, 2026160 ms
Jun 20, 2026158 ms
Jun 27, 2026158 ms
Jul 4, 2026164 ms
Jul 11, 2026170 ms
Jul 18, 2026205 ms
Jul 25, 2026212 ms
Aug 1, 2026183 ms
Aug 8, 2026180 ms
Aug 15, 2026174 ms
Aug 22, 2026177 ms
Aug 29, 2026189 ms
Sep 5, 2026178 ms
Sep 12, 2026208 ms
Sep 19, 2026194 ms
Sep 26, 2026220 ms
Oct 3, 2026237 ms
Oct 10, 2026210 ms
Oct 17, 2026222 ms
Oct 24, 2026223 ms
Oct 31, 2026226 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

15 to fix27
  • Minify JavaScript

    6.8 s · 1.3 MB

    1.3 MB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    4.2 s · 1.2 MB

    About 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.2 s faster on a phone.

  • cal.com adds 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    cal.com costs a phone 1.2 s of main-thread work and 1.8 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: 27

    27/100

    Your mobile performance score is 27. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 6.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 6.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 5,755 HTML elements

    The page has 5,755 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (cal.com, website-files.com and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 5.5 MB and 2.5 s of main-thread time.

  • website-files.com adds 907 ms

    907 ms

    website-files.com costs a phone 907 ms of main-thread work and 3.2 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.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 1.1 s. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Render-blocking requests

    650 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    450 ms · 43 KiB

    43 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 129 KiB

    About 129 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    300 ms · 35 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 35 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 273 ms

    273 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 273 ms of main-thread work and 353 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    253 KiB

    5 images could be 253 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 140 KiB

    22 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (140 KiB).

  • Minify CSS

    6 KiB

    6 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.

  • Forced reflow

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

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 20 ms

    20 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 20 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

13 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.

  • First Contentful Paint: 11.6 s

    11.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 11.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 20.0 s

    20.0 s

    Your largest element takes 20.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “SpotOn Updates webpage showing product release news with a …”.

  • Time to Interactive: 34.2 s

    34.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 34.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 11.7 s

    11.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.8 s

    2.8 s

    Real visitors wait 2.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 223 ms

    223 ms

    Real visitors wait 223 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 41% slower for real visitors

    +41%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 160 ms to 226 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 43% slower for real visitors

    +43%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user FCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 913 ms

    913 ms

    Real visitors wait 913 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 5 images without width and height

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

2 checks passed
  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

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

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix64
  • Page weight: 6.4 MB in 151 requests

    6.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 6.4 MB in 151 requests on a phone: scripts 4.4 MB (102), images 1.1 MB (21) and fonts 276 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    6a072b069660e8a437e0df3b_e73a20e046f8b9a37fbe7c6dc86ea0a7_he is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • About 1.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.82 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.82 g of CO₂e: 218.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

8 to fixGoogle 8188
  • Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (10 elements)

    Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 49 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 4 tap targets too small

    4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Hidden but focusable

    1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (15 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 15 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)

    Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 2 links without text

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

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (10 elements)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 61 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 42 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 8 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • 105 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 105 pages on launchnotes.io and 13 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 154 characters

    Your meta description is 154 characters: “LaunchNotes is the release notes tool built for modern enterprise teams: draft with AI, publish through MCP-connected a…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Product communication for the modern enterprise”.

  • Title: 56 characters

    Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “AI Release Notes Tool for Enterprise Teams | LaunchNotes”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: FAQPage and SoftwareApplication.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • 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://launchnotes.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.

3 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 (2,393 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (9 KiB, 45 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 50 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

3 to fixGoogle 6588
  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error: <svg> attribute height: Unexpected end of attribute. Expected length, "".”.

  • 4 distorted images

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

  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    29 of 32 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • No Content-Security-Policy

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

  • 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.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://login.launchnotes.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.

  • No security.txt

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

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (83 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for launchnotes.io and is valid for another 83 days.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://launchnotes.io 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 51 links work

    All 51 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 11 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

1 to fix
  • Domain expires in 48 days

    launchnotes.com is registered until Dec 2026. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.

  • No CAA record

    launchnotes.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 7 years old

    7 years

    launchnotes.com was registered in Dec 2018 through Cloudflare, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • DNSSEC is on

    launchnotes.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • 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 892 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 892 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: “Book a demo”.

  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Pricing” and “Book a demo”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (3 fields at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 18 testimonial or review blocks, 1 customer or partner logo and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and PostHog.

Email authentication

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

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be launchnotes.io 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 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:stspg-customer.com include:spf.mtasv.net ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “s1” and “s2”), 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.

  • 2 cookies set on arrival

    2

    Opening the homepage sets 2 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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

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CMS
Webflow
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | PostHog
Hosting
Webflow

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