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softwarediscountusa.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202637 issues · 95 checks
This review found 37 issues worth fixing on softwarediscountusa.com, 13 of them high impact, across 95 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
78C- #52,944 of 104,194 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #34,228 of 58,283 online storesbeats 36%
- #32,689 of 53,074 Shopify storesbeats 33%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 216 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 168 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 213 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 228 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 217 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 200 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 171 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
How it loaded on a phone
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.4 s5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 46
46/100Your mobile performance score is 46. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 6.9 s
A phone's processor spends 6.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
4,641 HTML elements
The page has 4,641 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (cloudfront.net, getdeviceinf.com and reamaze.com and others), adding 1,023 KiB and 1.3 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
750 ms · 172 KiBAbout 172 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
579 KiB40 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (579 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
540 KiBAbout 540 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
13 long tasks on the main thread
13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 503 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
cloudfront.net adds 459 ms
459 mscloudfront.net costs a phone 459 ms of main-thread work and 58 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.
getdeviceinf.com adds 253 ms
253 msgetdeviceinf.com costs a phone 253 ms of main-thread work and 174 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.
reamaze.com adds 180 ms
180 msreamaze.com costs a phone 180 ms of main-thread work and 317 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.
Legacy JavaScript
76 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 76 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Duplicated JavaScript
16 KiB16 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
Minify JavaScript
7 KiB7 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 15 ms
15 msYour server sent the HTML in 15 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.
Time to Interactive: 22.3 s
22.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 22.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.3 s
1.3 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.3 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 8.1 s
8.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.1 s
5.1 sYour largest element takes 5.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “SoftwareDiscountUSA - Company you can trust for your Licenc…”.
Real-user CLS: 0.23
0.23For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.23 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
8 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 171 ms
171 msReal visitors wait 171 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user FCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 579 ms
579 msReal visitors wait 579 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 17% faster for real visitors
-17%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 216 ms to 171 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 43% faster for real visitors
-43%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.094
0.094The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.094, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.4 MB in 359 requests
3.4 MBYour homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 359 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (104), other files 1.2 MB (203) and fonts 327 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
2 images in older formats
2 images (131 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 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
0.98 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.98 g of CO₂e: 117.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
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
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.
Hidden but focusable
1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
1 tap target too small
1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
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.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
34 links without text
34 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
3 form fields without a label
3 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (4 elements)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 156 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 60 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 8 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Meta description is long (161 characters)
Your meta description is 161 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
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.
376 internal links, 15 external
The homepage links to 376 pages on softwarediscountusa.com and 15 external pages.
6 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “We are SoftwareDiscountUSA”.
Title: 65 characters
Your title is a healthy 65 characters: “SoftwareDiscountUSA - Your Premier Source for Discounted Software”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://softwarediscountusa.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.
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://softwarediscountusa.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,384 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://softwarediscountusa.com/llms.txt (4 KiB, 20 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 pages without a meta description
https://softwarediscountusa.com/pages/windows-upgrade-assistant and https://softwarediscountusa.com/pages/request-a-quote have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 169 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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
33 small tap targets
33 of 152 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
Deprecated browser APIs
The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Identifier '_0x1c4152' has already been declared”.
Requests the notification permission on page load
Requests the notification permission on page load.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
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 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 1,890 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,890 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
7 checks passed
20 calls to action
The homepage has 20 calls to action, for example “Request a Quote”, “Contact Us” and “SHOP DEALS”.
109 short forms
109 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 106 testimonial or review blocks, 2 customer or partner logos, a star rating and 5 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 2 email links.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (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.
17 cookies set on arrival
17Opening the homepage sets 17 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.
51 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 51 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 softwarediscountusa.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 13 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Triplewhale · Seon Fraud Prevention · Simprosys Google Shopping Feed · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Reamaze Live Chat Helpdesk · Upform · Seon Shopify App · Pushowl · luckyorange.com · chimpstatic.com · trustpilot.com · trustedsite.com · Hulk Product Options
Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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