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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202635 issues · 86 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on sycle.net, 8 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
2.6 s1.7 sApr 18Oct 32.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20261.9 s
Apr 25, 20261.9 s
May 2, 20262.0 s
May 9, 20262.1 s
May 16, 20262.2 s
May 23, 20262.1 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.8 s
Jun 13, 20261.8 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.8 s
Jul 4, 20261.9 s
Jul 11, 20261.9 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20261.9 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.8 s
Aug 15, 20261.9 s
Aug 22, 20261.9 s
Aug 29, 20261.8 s
Sep 5, 20261.8 s
Sep 12, 20261.8 s
Sep 19, 20262.0 s
Sep 26, 20262.2 s
Oct 3, 20262.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
109 ms90 msApr 18Oct 397 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 202695 ms
Apr 25, 202695 ms
May 2, 202695 ms
May 9, 202695 ms
May 16, 202696 ms
May 23, 202696 ms
May 30, 202696 ms
Jun 6, 202696 ms
Jun 13, 202695 ms
Jun 20, 202692 ms
Jun 27, 202696 ms
Jul 4, 2026100 ms
Jul 11, 2026107 ms
Jul 18, 2026102 ms
Jul 25, 2026100 ms
Aug 1, 202698 ms
Aug 8, 202696 ms
Aug 15, 202696 ms
Aug 22, 202698 ms
Aug 29, 202699 ms
Sep 5, 2026103 ms
Sep 12, 2026101 ms
Sep 19, 202699 ms
Sep 26, 202696 ms
Oct 3, 202697 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 sycle.net (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. sycle.net at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. sycle.net at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. sycle.net at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. sycle.net at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. sycle.net at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. sycle.net at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. sycle.net at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. sycle.net at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

8 to fix53
  • Render-blocking requests

    4.5 s

    29 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.5 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.0 s · 300 KiB

    About 300 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 53

    53/100

    Your mobile performance score is 53 (desktop: 53). 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, Hubspot and FontAwesome CDN and others), adding 1.1 MB and 698 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    600 ms · 134 KiB

    13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (134 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    420 ms · 112 KiB

    About 112 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 420 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 443 ms

    443 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 443 ms of main-thread work and 520 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 169 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 11 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Improve image delivery

    28 KiB

    2 images could be 28 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 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.

  • Minify CSS

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 75 ms

    75 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 75 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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 17.3 s

    17.3 s

    Your largest element takes 17.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “The #1 Practice Management Software for Audiology, at any S…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 17.4 s

    17.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 17.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.9 s

    4.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.6 s

    6.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 22% slower for real visitors

    +22%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • 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.

  • Total Blocking Time: 314 ms

    314 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 314 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 20 images without width and height

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

  • 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 95 ms to 97 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

4 checks passed
  • Real-user INP: 97 ms

    97 ms

    Real visitors wait 97 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 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

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.3 MB in 155 requests

    2.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 155 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (50), fonts 613 KiB (14) and images 359 KiB (34). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 6 images below the first screen load straight away

    6 images further down the page (159 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (41 KiB) is 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

    0.65 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.65 g of CO₂e: 78.0 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

11 to fixGoogle 9287
  • 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.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (6 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 6 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 (2 elements)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)

    Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)

    Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 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.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • The skip-link target should exist and be focusable (1 element)

    The skip-link target should exist and be focusable: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 link without text

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 25 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 34 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 34 passed and 11 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10097
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 119 internal links, 14 external

    The homepage links to 119 pages on sycle.net and 14 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 125 characters

    Your meta description is 125 characters: “Sycle is the leading provider of audiology office management software with over 20 years of support hearing care specia…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “The #1 Practice Management Software for Audiology, at any Scale”.

  • Title: 44 characters

    Your title is a healthy 44 characters: “Audiology Office Management Software | Sycle”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Article, ImageObject, Organization, Person and WebPage.

  • 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://sycle.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing url, 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 https://sycle.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.

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

Other pages

100
  • 4 pages slow to respond

    https://sycle.com/features, https://sycle.com/industry-resources, https://sycle.com/partners and https://sycle.com/about took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    11 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 11 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 11 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 77100
  • Browser-reported issues

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

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix79
  • A 10-field form

    Your longest form asks for 10 fields (6 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

  • 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.

  • Only about 198 words

    The homepage has only about 198 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “REQUEST A DEMO”.

  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Request a Demo” and “Enterprises: Request a demo”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo and 2 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 9 cookies set on arrival

    9

    Opening the homepage sets 9 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 21 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 21 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner

    A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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