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mindrops.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 20269 issues · 91 checks
This review found 9 issues worth fixing on mindrops.com, 1 of them high impact, across 91 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
97AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 168 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 183 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 212 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 174 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 207 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 199 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 189 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 167 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 167 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 165 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 167 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 186 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 211 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 252 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 245 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
0.6 s
1.3 s
1.9 s
2.5 s
3.2 s
3.8 s
4.4 s
5.1 s
mindrops.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
1,660 HTML elements
The page has 1,660 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 156 KiB10 images could be 156 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 73 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
24 KiBAbout 24 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
1 third-party service on the page
1 third-party service load with your homepage (Cloudflare), adding 10 KiB and 12 ms of main-thread time.
Legacy JavaScript
10 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify CSS
7 KiB7 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
5 KiB2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (5 KiB).
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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 96
96/100Your mobile performance score is 96 (desktop: 100). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.9 s
A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 164 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 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.
Tap response (INP) got 42% slower for real visitors
+42%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 168 ms to 245 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user TTFB: 932 ms
932 msReal visitors wait 932 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s
1.8 sThe first text or image appears after 1.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
9 checks passed
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: 188 ms
188 msReal visitors wait 188 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.05
0.05For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.05 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.4 s
2.4 sYour largest element renders in 2.4 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the image “Connected digital infrastructure across a vast city.”.
Speed Index: 2.8 s
2.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.8 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Time to Interactive: 2.5 s
2.5 sThe page is fully interactive after 2.5 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 11 ms
11 msScripts block the page for only 11 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit
0.16 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.16 g of CO₂e: 18.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 565 KiB in 36 requests
565 KiBYour homepage downloads 565 KiB in 36 requests on a phone: images 418 KiB (23), HTML 70 KiB (1) and scripts 39 KiB (9). That is a lean page.
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
34 links without text
34 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 122 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
48 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 0 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
276 internal links, 25 external
The homepage links to 276 pages on mindrops.com and 25 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 144 characters
Your meta description is 144 characters: “Applied AI and enterprise software for startups and global businesses. Explore projects for Unilever, Anton Paar and Th…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Designing and building softwarewith AI at its core.”.
Title: 36 characters
Your title is a healthy 36 characters: “AI & Software Engineering | Mindrops”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.mindrops.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: FAQPage, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
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://www.mindrops.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Parts of the site are closed to 6 AI crawlers
Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.
3 checks passed
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,331 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (26 KiB, 0 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 101 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 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
36 of 36 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
8 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (mindrops.com).
Valid certificate (31 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for mindrops.com and is valid for another 31 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.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://mindrops.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 53 links work
All 53 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 13 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
mindrops.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
mindrops.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 8 years old
8 yearsmindrops.com was registered in Feb 2018 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Feb 2027
mindrops.com is registered until Feb 2027.
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.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 1,600 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,600 words of visible text.
7 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact Us”.
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Contact Us →” and “Contact”.
1 short form
A short form (6 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 75 testimonial or review blocks, 97 customer or partner logos and a star rating.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 5 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be mindrops.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 75/100
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 with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:amazonses.com -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
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.
1 other company contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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