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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202640 issues · 74 checks

This review found 40 issues worth fixing on output.com, 23 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
5.7 s4.1 sMay 2Oct 174.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20265.5 s
May 9, 20265.1 s
May 16, 20265.1 s
May 23, 20265.0 s
May 30, 20264.9 s
Jun 6, 20265.0 s
Jun 13, 20264.9 s
Jun 20, 20265.0 s
Jun 27, 20264.9 s
Jul 4, 20265.0 s
Jul 11, 20265.0 s
Jul 18, 20265.0 s
Jul 25, 20265.0 s
Aug 1, 20264.7 s
Aug 8, 20264.7 s
Aug 15, 20264.6 s
Aug 22, 20264.5 s
Aug 29, 20264.5 s
Sep 5, 20264.3 s
Sep 12, 20264.3 s
Sep 19, 20264.4 s
Sep 26, 20264.3 s
Oct 3, 20264.3 s
Oct 10, 20264.3 s
Oct 17, 20264.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
213 ms174 msMay 2Oct 17197 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 2026208 ms
May 9, 2026190 ms
May 16, 2026187 ms
May 23, 2026187 ms
May 30, 2026183 ms
Jun 6, 2026186 ms
Jun 13, 2026187 ms
Jun 20, 2026189 ms
Jun 27, 2026190 ms
Jul 4, 2026194 ms
Jul 11, 2026195 ms
Jul 18, 2026197 ms
Jul 25, 2026193 ms
Aug 1, 2026186 ms
Aug 8, 2026193 ms
Aug 15, 2026190 ms
Aug 22, 2026197 ms
Aug 29, 2026197 ms
Sep 5, 2026189 ms
Sep 12, 2026188 ms
Sep 19, 2026179 ms
Sep 26, 2026178 ms
Oct 3, 2026179 ms
Oct 10, 2026184 ms
Oct 17, 2026197 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

Full-page screenshot of output.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. output.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  2. output.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  3. output.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  4. output.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  5. output.com at 4.1 s4.1 s
  6. output.com at 4.9 s4.9 s
  7. output.com at 5.7 s5.7 s
  8. output.com at 6.5 s6.5 s

Speed

9 to fix39
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    5.4 s · 1.1 MB

    19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.1 MB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    4.1 s · 892 KiB

    About 892 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    1.0 s · 2.8 MB

    13 images could be 2.8 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Minify JavaScript

    1.5 s · 248 KiB

    248 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Mobile performance score: 39

    39/100

    Your mobile performance score is 39 (desktop: 43). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Intercom and Facebook and others), adding 1.5 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 642 ms

    642 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 642 ms of main-thread work and 693 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 70 KiB

    About 70 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.

  • Main-thread work: 3.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 18 long tasks on the main thread

    18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 222 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Legacy JavaScript

    44 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 44 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

10 to fix67
  • 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.

  • Real-user LCP: 5.2 s

    5.2 s

    Real visitors wait 5.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 4.8 s

    4.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 4.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 8.5 s

    8.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 8.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 20.7 s

    20.7 s

    Your largest element takes 20.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “In a world of noise, make music that matters Explore produc…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 25.3 s

    25.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 25.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.7 s

    8.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 707 ms

    707 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 707 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 24 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 208 ms to 197 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 179 ms

    179 ms

    Real visitors wait 179 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.01

    0.01

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 19% faster for real visitors

    -19%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.5 s to 4.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 7.7 MB in 113 requests

    7.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 7.7 MB in 113 requests on a phone: images 5.2 MB (31), scripts 2.2 MB (25) and fonts 159 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images over 500 KB

    3 images weigh 2.0 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 4 images far larger than shown

    1.2 MB

    4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example kmh-1-resized.png at 444 px wide, shown at 103 px. Resized copies would save about 1.2 MB.

  • 15 images in older formats

    15 images (4.3 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.

  • 11 images below the first screen load straight away

    11 images further down the page (3.0 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 2.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.18 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.18 g of CO₂e: 261.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8691
  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • 5 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 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.

  • Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)

    Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails 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.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

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  • 41 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 6 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10084
  • No H1 headline

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

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Only 0 internal links

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

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

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  • Meta description: 138 characters

    Your meta description is 138 characters: “The music creation tools and software behind the music you love. Explore groundbreaking plugins and instruments to unlo…”.

  • Title: 50 characters

    Your title is a healthy 50 characters: “Output-Creative tools for musicians, by musicians.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://output.com/.

  • 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://output.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

2 to fix63
  • Most text only appears after JavaScript runs

    0%

    A phone browser shows 377 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 0. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.

  • 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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://output.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.

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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.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9678
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=25016296&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=f026ecae-8924-4dc4-a31b-aaef39d79190&bo=3&sid=85d50890cd2e11f18064fb17e555ac68&vid=85d51760cd2e11f19eddd35be5744f62&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://use.fontawesome.com/7f85a56ba4.css' from origin 'https://output.com' has been bloc…”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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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.

Content and conversion

3 to fix50
  • No calls to action

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

  • No social proof

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

  • 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 form on the homepage

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

  • 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 377 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 377 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: “Get Output Co-Producer Try it free”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Cloudflare Web Analytics.

Privacy and tracking

  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amplitude, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 22 cookies set on arrival

    22

    Opening the homepage sets 22 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 32 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 32 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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  • Consent tool: CookieYes

    A consent management tool (CookieYes) loads with the page.

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