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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202624 issues · 71 checks

This review found 24 issues worth fixing on synk.to, 7 of them high impact, across 71 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Full-page screenshot of synk.to (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

6 to fix62
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.8 s · 550 KiB

    About 550 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, Intercom and Google CDN and others), adding 1.4 MB and 859 ms of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 62

    62/100

    Your mobile performance score is 62. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • website-files.com adds 316 ms

    316 ms

    website-files.com costs a phone 316 ms of main-thread work and 589 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: 2.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Google CDN adds 125 ms

    125 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 125 ms of main-thread work and 352 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

    200 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 200 ms.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 199 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    16 KiB

    3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (16 KiB).

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix55
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.9 s

    7.9 s

    Your largest element takes 7.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Synk.to inventory of SaaS and OAuth apps found in Google Wo…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 11.8 s

    11.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 11.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 338 ms

    338 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 338 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.107

    0.107

    The layout shifts by 0.107 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • 7 images without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

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  • Speed Index: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.46 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.46 g of CO₂e: 55.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 1.6 MB in 60 requests

    1.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.6 MB in 60 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (29), fonts 448 KiB (4) and images 51 KiB (12). That is a lean page.

  • 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

5 to fixGoogle 9091
  • Interactive controls must not be nested (9 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 4 text elements with low contrast

    4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Links look like plain text

    2 links inside paragraphs rely on colour alone to stand out.

  • 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.

  • 9 links without text

    9 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 19 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 41 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: 41 passed and 5 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 10093
  • Title is long (73 characters)

    Your title is 73 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Shadow IT & OAuth App Detection for Google Workspace & Entra ID | Synk.to”.

  • 23 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 23 pages on synk.to and 2 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 152 characters

    Your meta description is 152 characters: “See every OAuth app, AI tool and shadow SaaS connected to Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra ID, and the data each can…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Shadow IT and OAuth app detection for Google Workspace and Microsoft Entra ID”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://synk.to/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization and SoftwareApplication.

  • 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://synk.to/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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  • 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 (641 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://synk.to/llms.txt (4 KiB, 21 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 2 linked pages hidden from search

    https://synk.to/privacy and https://synk.to/terms are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    https://synk.to/privacy and https://synk.to/terms use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 page with very little text

    https://synk.to/book-a-demo has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 10 internal pages checked

    We fetched 10 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 10 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 10 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.

  • Every page has a title

    All 10 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9697
  • 1 distorted image

    1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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  • No console errors

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

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    12 of 13 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix70
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • 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 form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 608 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 608 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Start free trial” and “Book a demo”.

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Pricing”, “Start free trial” and “Book a demo”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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.

  • 9 cookies set on arrival

    9

    Opening the homepage sets 9 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.

  • 18 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
Webflow
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Webflow

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