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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202642 issues · 100 checks

This review found 42 issues worth fixing on loyaltysurf.io, 13 of them high impact, across 100 checks. The most urgent: arcade.software adds 1.8 s. 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

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Speed

10 to fix45
  • arcade.software adds 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    arcade.software costs a phone 1.8 s of main-thread work and 4.8 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.2 s

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.2 s.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 1.2 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: 45

    45/100

    Your mobile performance score is 45. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 8.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 8.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.5 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 (arcade.software, Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 6.2 MB and 3.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.4 MB

    About 2.4 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    600 ms · 51 KiB

    About 51 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    600 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 600 ms).

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 540 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    233 KiB

    24 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (233 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    67 KiB

    6 images could be 67 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    21 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    14 KiB

    14 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix52
  • Time to Interactive: 41.0 s

    41.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 41.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 13.8 s

    13.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 13.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 2.9 s

    2.9 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.9 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 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 “Create simple reward rules: when customers post reviews, sh…”.

  • 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.

  • 5 images without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.052

    0.052

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.052, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 7.4 MB in 235 requests

    7.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 7.4 MB in 235 requests on a phone: scripts 4.5 MB (154), fonts 1.3 MB (14) and images 1.2 MB (20). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 2.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.10 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.10 g of CO₂e: 251.8 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

8 to fixGoogle 8189
  • 25 tap targets too small

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

  • 22 text elements with low contrast

    22 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 (41 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 41 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.

  • 16 form fields without a label

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

  • 3 links without text

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

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (9 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5 and h2 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • 41 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 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

2 to fixGoogle 9290
  • 3 H1 headlines

    There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Create simple reward rules: when customers post r…”, “Turn your users into a growth engine” and “Try It yourself”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • Meta description is long (212 characters)

    Your meta description is 212 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 39 internal links, 18 external

    The homepage links to 39 pages on loyaltysurf.io and 18 external pages.

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  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “LoyaltySurf: Advocacy and Loyalty Rewards Software (All-in-one)”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://loyaltysurf.io/.

  • 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://loyaltysurf.io/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.

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

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (4 KiB, 24 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without an H1

    /use-cases has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 23 found) 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 7388
  • 2 third-party cookies

    2 third-party cookies are 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 “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static.mailerlite.com/css/universal.css?v4' from origin 'https://loyaltysurf.io' h…”.

  • 2 distorted images

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

  • Browser-reported issues

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

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    5 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

4 to fix69
  • 1 broken link to your own pages

    1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://loyaltysurf.io/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection (404).

  • 1 broken external link

    1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://docs.loyaltysurf.io/integrations/webhooks/events-reference (404).

  • 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.

  • No clickjacking protection

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

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://facebook.com/loyaltysurf.

  • 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 (loyaltysurf.io).

  • Valid certificate (78 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for loyaltysurf.io and is valid for another 78 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://loyaltysurf.io redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

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

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    loyaltysurf.io 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.

Content and conversion

4 to fix78
  • 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.

  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 opening hours

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

  • 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 1,356 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,356 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: “TRY IT FREE”.

  • 18 calls to action

    The homepage has 18 calls to action, for example “Book Demo with Kevin”, “Product Demo” and “Pricing”.

  • 8 short forms

    8 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, HubSpot, PostHog and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

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

Email authentication

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

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be loyaltysurf.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.

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  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:amazonses.com include:helpscoutemail.com include:_spf.mlsen…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “k1” and “s1”), 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.

  • 10 cookies set on arrival

    10

    Opening the homepage sets 10 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.

  • 28 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 28 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It loads jQuery 3.4.1, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).

Stack

Framework
Bootstrap
Analytics
Google Analytics | PostHog | Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Cloudflare

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