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16submarines.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202641 issues · 74 checks
This review found 41 issues worth fixing on 16submarines.com, 13 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
70C- #78,250 of 93,550 reviewed websitesbeats 14%
- #44,943 of 49,994 online storesbeats 8%
- #41,322 of 45,145 Shopify storesbeats 7%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.6 s5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.
4,900 HTML elements
The page has 4,900 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Main-thread work: 4.3 s
A phone's processor spends 4.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Improve image delivery
500 ms · 1.4 MB5 images could be 1.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 57
57/100Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
750 ms · 223 KiBAbout 223 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
5 long tasks on the main thread
5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 563 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
450 ms · 79 KiB6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (79 KiB).
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, cloudfront.net and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 2.2 MB and 304 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 68 KiBAbout 68 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
cloudfront.net adds 73 ms
73 mscloudfront.net costs a phone 73 ms of main-thread work and 1.5 MB 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.
Klaviyo adds 115 ms
115 msKlaviyo costs a phone 115 ms of main-thread work and 311 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.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 29 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 29 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 12 ms
12 msYour server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 10.6 s
10.6 sYour largest element takes 10.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Ornaments Tag out your tree”.
Time to Interactive: 14.7 s
14.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 14.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 577 ms
577 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 577 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 4.9 s
4.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
4 images without width and height
4 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.
2 checks passed
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.4 MB in 169 requests
4.4 MBYour homepage downloads 4.4 MB in 169 requests on a phone: images 1.8 MB (11), scripts 1.3 MB (70) and other files 792 KiB (75). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image over 500 KB
7abcfbc4-4411-4a11-914e-682879bbf5ca.png weighs 1.3 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
2 images far larger than shown
1.2 MB2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 7abcfbc4-4411-4a11-914e-682879bbf5ca.png at 1,200 px wide, shown at 130 px. Resized copies would save about 1.2 MB.
1 image in older formats
1 image (1.3 MB) 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 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit
1.24 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.24 g of CO₂e: 149.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
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.
8 tap targets too small
8 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
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.
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 58 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
53 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 passed and 5 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Title is short (7 characters)
Your title is only 7 characters: “16Fleet”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
Meta description is long (198 characters)
Your meta description is 198 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
3 links crawlers can't follow
3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
282 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 282 pages on 16submarines.com and 7 external pages.
5 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://16fleet.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: WebSite.
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://16fleet.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,523 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://16fleet.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a title
https://16fleet.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
https://16fleet.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
14 pages without a meta description
https://16fleet.com/customer_authentication/redirect, https://16fleet.com/collections/fall, https://16fleet.com/collections/holiday-apparel, https://16fleet.com/collections/holiday-home, https://16fleet.com/collections/navy-ornaments and https://16fleet.com/collections/patriotic-ornaments and 8 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
https://16fleet.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 113 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
3 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
90 of 101 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 63 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
A 15-field form
Your longest form asks for 15 fields (0 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.
About 1,077 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,077 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
54 calls to action
The homepage has 54 calls to action, for example “Custom Shop”, “Shop All” and “Ornaments Tag out your tree Shop Now”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel (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.
12 cookies set on arrival
12Opening the homepage sets 12 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.
22 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 22 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 16submarines.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 6 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Hulk Form Builder · Judge Me Reviews · teelaunch.com · nfcube.com · cloudfront.net
Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Bootstrap
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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