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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202617 issues · 62 checks

This review found 17 issues worth fixing on pdffiller.com, 5 of them high impact, across 62 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
4.0 s3.6 sApr 18Oct 33.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20263.8 s
Apr 25, 20263.9 s
May 2, 20263.9 s
May 9, 20263.9 s
May 16, 20263.8 s
May 23, 20263.8 s
May 30, 20263.7 s
Jun 6, 20263.8 s
Jun 13, 20263.8 s
Jun 20, 20263.9 s
Jun 27, 20263.9 s
Jul 4, 20263.9 s
Jul 11, 20263.9 s
Jul 18, 20263.8 s
Jul 25, 20263.8 s
Aug 1, 20263.7 s
Aug 8, 20263.7 s
Aug 15, 20263.6 s
Aug 22, 20263.6 s
Aug 29, 20263.6 s
Sep 5, 20263.6 s
Sep 12, 20263.6 s
Sep 19, 20263.7 s
Sep 26, 20263.7 s
Oct 3, 20263.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
348 ms306 msApr 18Oct 3311 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 2026343 ms
Apr 25, 2026341 ms
May 2, 2026337 ms
May 9, 2026330 ms
May 16, 2026324 ms
May 23, 2026321 ms
May 30, 2026321 ms
Jun 6, 2026324 ms
Jun 13, 2026325 ms
Jun 20, 2026322 ms
Jun 27, 2026318 ms
Jul 4, 2026313 ms
Jul 11, 2026311 ms
Jul 18, 2026313 ms
Jul 25, 2026318 ms
Aug 1, 2026322 ms
Aug 8, 2026325 ms
Aug 15, 2026325 ms
Aug 22, 2026325 ms
Aug 29, 2026324 ms
Sep 5, 2026322 ms
Sep 12, 2026320 ms
Sep 19, 2026318 ms
Sep 26, 2026313 ms
Oct 3, 2026311 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

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix33
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.8 s

    3.8 s

    Real visitors wait 3.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 310 ms

    310 ms

    Real visitors wait 310 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    Real visitors wait 1.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 343 ms to 311 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.8 s to 3.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 checks passed
  • Real-user CLS: 0.10

    0.10

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.10 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.1 MB

    2.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB on a phone, 227 KiB of it images (10%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.60 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.60 g of CO₂e: 72.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • 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

4 to fix93
  • Hidden but focusable

    15 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • 10 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Frames without titles

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

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 79 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 45 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: 45 passed and 4 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

100
  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 124 internal links, 173 external

    The homepage links to 124 pages on pdffiller.com and 173 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “Edit, create, and manage PDFs online with pdfFiller. Streamline workflows with seamless eSignatures, unlimited cloud st…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Millions of people trust us with their PDFs”.

  • Title: 64 characters

    Your title is a healthy 64 characters: “pdfFiller: All-in-One PDF Editing & Document Management Solution”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.pdffiller.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization, SiteNavigationElement 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.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_catalog_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 checks passed
  • 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.

  • 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 (1,979 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.pdffiller.com/llms.txt (11 KiB, 92 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 2 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://www.pdffiller.com/en/industry/insurance, whose canonical is https://www.pdffiller.com/en/industry/insurance.htm. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://www.pdffiller.com/en/support has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page with very little text

    https://www.pdffiller.com/en/support has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 55 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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

1 to fix84
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=199004298&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=121c0eb2-9271-4c48-9863-1fb6130008a3&bo=2&sid=403e5090c5e111f1aedc431d137702b5&vid=403e5460c5e111f1a693a3f90140f1f9&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=9.

3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    29 of 29 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix81
  • 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.

  • 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 form on the homepage

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

  • 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 1,598 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,598 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Start Free Trial” and “Pricing”.

  • 15 calls to action

    The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Start Free Trial” and “Start free trial”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 40 testimonial or review blocks, 26 customer or partner logos, a star rating and 28 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Ads (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.

  • 26 cookies set on arrival

    26

    Opening the homepage sets 26 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.

  • 10 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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