9five.com website review

446 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

About 767 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 48 (desktop: 82). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 5.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 4,268 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Shopify and cloudfront.net and others), adding 2.3 MB and 1.0 s of main-thread time.

12 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (163 KiB).

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 658 ms of main-thread work and 1.0 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.

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 550 ms.

Shopify costs a phone 225 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 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.

19 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 297 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 38 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.

4 images could be 137 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Desktop scores 82 but mobile only 48. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

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.

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.

Your largest element takes 21.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experi…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 27.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 690 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 288 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 130 ms to 204 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Visually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.5 MB in 330 requests on a phone: scripts 2.5 MB (144), other files 859 KiB (135) and images 848 KiB (28). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image (41 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.28 g of CO₂e: 153.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

10 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

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

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

The homepage links to 117 pages on 9five.com and 1 external page.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing 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.

/collections/9five-x-swagu-limited-edition-collection, /collections/xl-clear-prescription, /collections/xl-tinted-prescription, /collections/anniversary-collection-ltd, /collections/shadow-shell and /collections/diego-smoke and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/collections/xl-tinted and /collections/xl-clear use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/collections/sunglasses, /collections/xl-tinted, /collections/clear-lens-collection, /collections/xl-clear, /collections/9five-x-swagu-limited-edition-collection and /collections/clear-prescription-lens and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 50 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error sending user session Error: Shopify session id is missing”.

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

3 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://9five.com/account.

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.

9five.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.

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

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.

The homepage has only about 163 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

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 Clarity 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.

Opening the homepage sets 25 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 46 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.