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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202635 issues · 83 checks
This review found 35 issues worth fixing on slidesgo.com, 13 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
75CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 234 ms |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 235 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 233 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 228 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 227 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 226 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 224 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 224 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 222 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 220 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 224 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 225 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 236 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 242 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 237 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 236 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 227 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 225 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 225 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 223 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 222 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 223 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 225 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 229 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 231 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
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.3 s · 630 KiB36 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (630 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.6 s · 521 KiBAbout 521 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.
3,205 HTML elements
The page has 3,205 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Mobile performance score: 52
52/100Your mobile performance score is 52. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Optanon and cdnpk.net and others), adding 914 KiB and 696 ms of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
350 ms · 263 KiB10 images could be 263 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 309 ms
309 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 309 ms of main-thread work and 351 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.
Render-blocking requests
300 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.
Main-thread work: 2.8 s
A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 long tasks on the main thread
8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 196 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 35 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 35 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
19 KiBAbout 19 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
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.
Duplicated JavaScript
1 KiB1 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
1 checks passed
Server response: 10 ms
10 msYour server sent the HTML in 10 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.
Real-user TTFB: 2.2 s
2.2 sReal visitors wait 2.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 9.5 s
9.5 sYour largest element takes 9.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
First Contentful Paint: 5.3 s
5.3 sThe first text or image appears after 5.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 13.7 s
13.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 13.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 3.3 s
3.3 sReal visitors wait 3.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 278 ms
278 msReal visitors wait 278 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user FCP: 2.9 s
2.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 5.6 s
5.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 349 ms
349 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 349 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-2%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 234 ms to 231 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
2 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.01
0.01For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.063
0.063The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.063, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.1 MB in 69 requests
2.1 MBYour homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 69 requests on a phone: scripts 1.0 MB (24), fonts 457 KiB (5) and images 448 KiB (19). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
botanical-aesthetic1766764347-thumb.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).
2 images in older formats
2 images (73 KiB) 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.
About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit
0.59 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.59 g of CO₂e: 70.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
23 buttons without a name
23 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (18 elements)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 18 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
11 text elements with low contrast
11 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
23 images without alt text
23 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (3 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
27 links without text
27 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 form fields without a label
2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://slidesgo.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:title and og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
333 internal links, 19 external
The homepage links to 333 pages on slidesgo.com and 19 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 122 characters
Your meta description is 122 characters: “Discover the best Google Slides themes and PowerPoint templates you can use in your presentations - 100% Free for any u…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Build your next presentation”.
Title: 61 characters
Your title is a healthy 61 characters: “Free Google Slides themes and Powerpoint templates | Slidesgo”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://slidesgo.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
No llms.txt
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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,384 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 135 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 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
38 of 44 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 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 657 words of copy
The homepage carries about 657 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Pricing”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Pricing” and “Contact”.
22 short forms
22 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Hotjar, PostHog and Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar (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.
9 cookies set on arrival
9Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
15 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at slidesgo.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
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