3rdfootcane.com website review

YouTube costs a phone 1.8 s of main-thread work and 4.9 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

A phone's processor spends 5.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

About 2.6 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Other Google APIs/SDKs and Shopify and others), adding 5.2 MB and 1.9 s of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 58. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 300 ms.

The page has 1,673 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 128 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.

17 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 245 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

12 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (37 KiB).

4 images could be 29 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The page becomes fully interactive after 34.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 871 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The layout shifts by 0.236 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

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 image “The 3rd Foot Cane”.

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

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.

Your homepage downloads 6.5 MB in 242 requests on a phone: scripts 4.6 MB (63), other files 808 KiB (127) and HTML 434 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.85 g of CO₂e: 221.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Some list items are not inside a list.

<dt> and <dd> elements must be contained by a <dl>: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

<dl> elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

4 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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

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

Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

There are 4 <h1> headlines (“<img src="//alignedasdesigned.com/cdn/shop/files/…”, “The 3rd Foot Patented Fabric Topped Crutch” and “The Aligned As Designed WHEELCHAIR FOR IMPROVED M…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

The homepage links to 53 pages on 3rdfootcane.com and 10 external pages.

Your homepage links to /pages/lindas-network, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/collections/all, /customer_authentication/redirect and /policies/shipping-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/pages/how-to-use, /pages/comparison-page, /pages/blog, /pages/ctip, /pages/the-science and /pages/lindas-story-1 and 1 other have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=148005179&Ver=2&mid=5b1cd17a-c91c-47bc-a3ed-1effcd04bb55&bo=1&sid=424770b0db5311f1865f1fc2e270e22a&vid=4247aad0db5311f1ab08315bdba24643&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&l.

5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

2 links from your homepage to your own site are broken, for example https://alignedasdesigned.com/pages/lindas-network (404).

http://3rdfootcane.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

Opening https://3rdfootcane.com goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.

3 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://alignedasdesigned.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en&region_country=US.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

alignedasdesigned.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

alignedasdesigned.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 1,040 words of visible text.

3rdfootcane.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

3rdfootcane.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

3rdfootcane.com has no MX record, so it receives no email. SPF -all and DMARC reject still matter: they stop others sending mail as you.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

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

Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

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