mute.com website review

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.7 s.

16 images could be 910 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 82 (desktop: 90). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Amazon Web Services and Google Fonts and others), adding 378 KiB and 285 ms of main-thread time.

About 204 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

About 22 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 156 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

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

2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2 KiB).

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 877 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

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 image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 3.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 84 ms to 82 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.5 MB in 48 requests on a phone: images 1.9 MB (26), scripts 471 KiB (12) and fonts 59 KiB (2). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

15 images (1.7 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

album-cover-768x768.jpg 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).

1 image further down the page (30 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.70 g of CO₂e: 84.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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

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

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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.

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 11 characters: “Home - Mute”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

There are 11 <h1> headlines (“Erasure Radio Radio!!”, “HAAi DIGITiSE” and “LIARS A BAN ON PLASTIC BAG BANS”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

The homepage links to 77 pages on mute.com and 46 external pages.

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 /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.

/artists, /news, /releases, /live, /erasure and /haai-announces-new-album-digitise and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/artists and /live have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 45 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://mute.com/.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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.

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

The homepage carries about 369 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.