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synchrony.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202613 issues · 59 checks
This review found 13 issues worth fixing on synchrony.com, 2 of them high impact, across 59 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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- 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.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 238 ms |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 238 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 239 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 241 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 242 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 244 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 244 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 244 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 246 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 246 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 250 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 252 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 253 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 254 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 253 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 252 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 251 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 252 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
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
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 INP: 256 ms
256 msReal visitors wait 256 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 238 ms to 252 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+8%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
4 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.5 s
2.5 sReal visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.04
0.04For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.04 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.8 s
1.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 745 ms
745 msReal visitors wait 745 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.6 MB
2.6 MBYour homepage downloads 2.6 MB on a phone, 1,004 KiB of it images (38%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.74 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.74 g of CO₂e: 88.6 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
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (9 elements)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 102 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 3 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (Corporation and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: missing name”.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.
188 internal links, 55 external
The homepage links to 188 pages on synchrony.com and 55 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 136 characters
Your meta description is 136 characters: “Find great deals, promotional offers, credit cards, savings products, payment solutions, and more. See how Synchrony ca…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Defining the future of commerce”.
Title: 64 characters
Your title is a healthy 64 characters: “Credit Cards, Financing, Marketplace, Banking & More - Synchrony”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.synchrony.com/.
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.synchrony.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
3 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 (1,497 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 pages without a meta description
/financing/home/synchrony-home-credit-card and /marketplace/locations have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 link to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /marketplace/locations, whose canonical is /locator-landing. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 105 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.
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 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
33 of 41 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 1,138 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,138 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn more” and “Apply for CareCredit card”.
20 calls to action
The homepage has 20 calls to action, for example “Where to shop”, “Register your credit card” and “Contact us”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
32 cookies set on arrival
32Opening the homepage sets 32 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
13 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
2 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 synchrony.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
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What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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