7whalesstudio.com website review

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Bigcommerce and Google/Doubleclick Ads and others), adding 1.6 MB and 581 ms of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 385 ms of main-thread work and 312 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.

Bigcommerce costs a phone 193 ms of main-thread work and 1.2 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.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 257 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 250 ms.

About 188 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

4 images could be 156 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

About 27 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (18 KiB).

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.

5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 2.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 215 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

1 image 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.

banner_-_website_-_glazed_pottery__99860.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.46 g of CO₂e: 55.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 33 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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

1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (4 elements).

Your title is only 15 characters: “7 Whales Studio”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

No XML sitemap at https://7whalesstudio.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

Your <h1> is empty.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 87 pages on 7whalesstudio.com and 1 external page.

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.

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.

/shop-all, /clay-art-pottery, /ceramics/scupltures, /ceramics/pottery, /visual-art and /visual-art/art-prints and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/compare and /giftcertificates.php use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/compare 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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 35 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://7whalesstudio.com/ceramics/ (404).

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 0 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

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.

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

7whalesstudio.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.

7whalesstudio.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.

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

Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

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 294 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be 7whalesstudio.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

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.

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 and Google Tag Manager (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 12 cookies (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 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.