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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202627 issues · 80 checks

This review found 27 issues worth fixing on tcpsoftware.com, 3 of them high impact, across 80 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

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  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
2.8 s2.0 sMay 9Oct 242.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.3 s
May 16, 20262.3 s
May 23, 20262.4 s
May 30, 20262.3 s
Jun 6, 20262.3 s
Jun 13, 20262.2 s
Jun 20, 20262.1 s
Jun 27, 20262.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.3 s
Jul 11, 20262.4 s
Jul 18, 20262.5 s
Jul 25, 20262.6 s
Aug 1, 20262.6 s
Aug 8, 20262.5 s
Aug 15, 20262.5 s
Aug 22, 20262.5 s
Aug 29, 20262.5 s
Sep 5, 20262.5 s
Sep 12, 20262.4 s
Sep 19, 20262.4 s
Sep 26, 20262.5 s
Oct 3, 20262.6 s
Oct 10, 20262.6 s
Oct 17, 20262.7 s
Oct 24, 20262.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
261 ms194 msMay 9Oct 24239 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026204 ms
May 16, 2026202 ms
May 23, 2026203 ms
May 30, 2026203 ms
Jun 6, 2026203 ms
Jun 13, 2026206 ms
Jun 20, 2026208 ms
Jun 27, 2026211 ms
Jul 4, 2026211 ms
Jul 11, 2026209 ms
Jul 18, 2026204 ms
Jul 25, 2026207 ms
Aug 1, 2026206 ms
Aug 8, 2026205 ms
Aug 15, 2026208 ms
Aug 22, 2026213 ms
Aug 29, 2026210 ms
Sep 5, 2026214 ms
Sep 12, 2026219 ms
Sep 19, 2026227 ms
Sep 26, 2026232 ms
Oct 3, 2026247 ms
Oct 10, 2026250 ms
Oct 17, 2026253 ms
Oct 24, 2026239 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 tcpsoftware.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

6 to fix74
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.1 MB

    23 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.1 MB).

  • Mobile performance score: 74

    74/100

    Your mobile performance score is 74. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 12 long tasks on the main thread

    12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 412 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Main-thread work: 4.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    350 KiB

    About 350 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 1,916 HTML elements

    The page has 1,916 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 (Facebook, Clarity and DemandBase and others), adding 409 KiB and 395 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 35 KiB

    About 35 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    181 KiB

    12 images could be 181 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    35 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 35 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 23 ms

    23 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 23 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix33
  • 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: 16.4 s

    16.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user INP: 230 ms

    230 ms

    Real visitors wait 230 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.12

    0.12

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 21% slower for real visitors

    +21%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 204 ms to 239 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors wait 1.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 497 ms

    497 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 497 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.7 s

    3.7 s

    Your largest element takes 3.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Make scheduling and time tracking easier for your frontline…”.

  • Speed Index: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.007

    0.007

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.007, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.1 MB in 153 requests

    2.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 153 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (42), fonts 331 KiB (4) and images 239 KiB (38). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (40 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

    0.59 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.59 g of CO₂e: 70.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 10096
  • 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.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

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

  • 35 links without text

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

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 45 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 2 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 8595
  • 9 links with vague text

    9 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 3 links crawlers can't follow

    3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 121 internal links, 12 external

    The homepage links to 121 pages on tcpsoftware.com and 12 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 157 characters

    Your meta description is 157 characters: “TCP Software's employee scheduling, time, and attendance solutions help organizations control labor costs, stay complia…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Make scheduling and time tracking easier for your frontline teams”.

  • Title: 61 characters

    Your title is a healthy 61 characters: “Employee Scheduling and Time Tracking Software | TCP Software”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

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

  • 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://tcpsoftware.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.

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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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (995 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://tcpsoftware.com/llms.txt (79 KiB, 318 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 8 pages slow to respond

    https://tcpsoftware.com/products/time-clocks, https://tcpsoftware.com/products/integrations, https://tcpsoftware.com/solutions/k-12-education, https://tcpsoftware.com/solutions/higher-education, https://tcpsoftware.com/solutions/government and https://tcpsoftware.com/solutions/public-safety and 2 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 37 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    13 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 13 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 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9678
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=25069486&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=1cc36870-6c0d-4cfc-be1d-77a16ebc500f&bo=1&sid=91ddf2d0d39c11f1a22eb766427d6caa&vid=91de08e0d39c11f1b1bc9577246ba470&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    6 of 7 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix92
  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • 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 514 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 514 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: “Get a demo”.

  • 24 calls to action

    The homepage has 24 calls to action, for example “Learn more”, “Discover Humanity Schedule” and “Contact us”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (0 fields at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 3 trust badges and “over 37,000 companies”.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, LinkedIn Insight, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads 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.

  • 21 cookies set on arrival

    21

    Opening the homepage sets 21 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (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.

  • 37 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 37 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
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Employees
398

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