xda-developers.com website review

Not measured in this review.

• Real-user TTFB: 1.0 s

  1.0 s

  Real visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

• Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

  -4%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 115 ms to 110 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

  0%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Page weight: 2.6 MB

  2.6 MB

  Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB on a phone, 195 KiB of it images (7%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

  0.74 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.74 g of CO₂e: 89.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• 2 buttons without a name

  2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  Elements (2)

• 32 text elements with low contrast

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

  Elements (3)

• 11 tap targets too small

  11 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  Elements (3)

• Links look like plain text

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

  Elements (2)

• Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

  Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  Elements (1)

• All page content should be contained by landmarks (3 elements)

  All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  Elements (3)

• 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.

  Elements (1)

• 10 links without text

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

  Elements (3)

• 2 form fields without a label

  2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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• Headings skip levels

  Headings skip levels (h2 → h5, h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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• No H1 headline

  There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

• Title is short (3 characters)

  Your title is only 3 characters: “XDA”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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• 270 internal links, 32 external

  The homepage links to 270 pages on xda-developers.com and 32 external pages.

• robots.txt blocks 1 AI answer engine crawler

  1 of 6

  Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

• No Organization structured data

  There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

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• 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.

• Opted out of AI training for 4 crawlers

  robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

• 1 link to non-canonical URLs

  Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /gpu, whose canonical is /what-is-gpu. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  Elements (1)

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 116 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 26 small tap targets

  26 of 50 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

• 4 JavaScript errors while loading

  4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unable to find element with ID: comments-feed-list.”.

• 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.

• 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 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 1,057 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 1,057 words of visible text.

• 6 trackers load before any consent

  6

  Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and 1 more (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.

• 15 cookies set on arrival

  15

  Opening the homepage sets 15 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.

• 57 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 57 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.