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launchnotes.io website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
69DClosest competitors among SaaS websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 160 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 159 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 164 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 205 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 212 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 174 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 189 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 208 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 220 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 237 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 210 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 222 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 223 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 226 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
Speed
Minify JavaScript
6.8 s · 1.3 MB1.3 MB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Reduce unused JavaScript
4.2 s · 1.2 MBAbout 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 scal.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
27/100Your 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 mswebsite-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 ms3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.
Duplicated JavaScript
450 ms · 43 KiB43 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 KiBAbout 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 KiBPolyfills 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 msGoogle 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 KiB5 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 KiB22 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (140 KiB).
Minify CSS
6 KiB6 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 msYour server sent the HTML in 20 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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 sThe 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 sYour 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 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 34.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 11.7 s
11.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 11.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 2.1 s
2.1 sScripts 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 sReal 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 msReal 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 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 913 ms
913 msReal 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
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 6.4 MB in 151 requests
6.4 MBYour 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 gBy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 yearslaunchnotes.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
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
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
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before 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
2Opening 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
Stack
- CMS
- Webflow
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager | PostHog
- Hosting
- Webflow
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