softonic.com website review

The page has 4,662 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Didomi and Clarity and others), adding 1.2 MB and 971 ms of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 59 (desktop: 93). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (159 KiB).

About 238 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 526 ms of main-thread work and 374 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.

8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 376 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Didomi costs a phone 214 ms of main-thread work and 295 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.

sftcdn.net costs a phone 19 ms of main-thread work and 458 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.

5 images could be 40 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Desktop scores 93 but mobile only 59. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

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.

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 12.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 5.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Tus mejores Programas Aplicaciones, Juegos, Mods, Apks, Pro…”.

The first text or image appears after 3.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 316 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 184 ms to 226 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 480 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.48 g of CO₂e: 57.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Your title is 79 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Noticias, análisis y descargas de software, guía de las mejores apps - Softonic”.

Your meta description is 164 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

No XML sitemap at https://www.softonic.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 246 pages on softonic.com and 515 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 https://www.softonic.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.

Your homepage links to https://www.softonic.com/articulos, https://www.softonic.com/windows, https://www.softonic.com/windows/accion, https://www.softonic.com/windows/arcade, https://www.softonic.com/windows/aventuras and https://www.softonic.com/windows/carreras and 8 others, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 197 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 406 ()”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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.

Social proof on the homepage: 4 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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 16 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

Opening the homepage sets 25 cookies, 25 of them by other companies (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 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.