musixmatch.com website review

29 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4.3 MB).

About 921 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.0 s faster on a phone.

7 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 1.1 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 48. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (mxmcdn.net, Google Tag Manager and Optanon and others), adding 1.9 MB and 1.0 s of main-thread time.

mxmcdn.net costs a phone 633 ms of main-thread work and 979 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.

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 456 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 322 ms of main-thread work and 697 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Polyfills for old browsers add 31 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

About 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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 visitors wait 5.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 22.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “By clicking “Accept All”, you agree to the storing of cooki…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 22.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 758 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.15 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 125 ms to 137 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 4.7 s to 4.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.2 MB in 66 requests on a phone: images 3.8 MB (18), scripts 1.8 MB (17) and fonts 551 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.76 g of CO₂e: 210.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Your robots.txt disallows the whole site for every crawler, so search engines are told to stay out.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

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.

There is no https://www.musixmatch.com/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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 103 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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