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a1tarps.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 1 November 202640 issues · 114 checks
This review found 40 issues worth fixing on a1tarps.com, 12 of them high impact, across 114 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
80B- #30,929 of 81,004 reviewed websitesbeats 56%
- #18,249 of 39,957 online storesbeats 48%
- #191 of 716 BigCommerce storesbeats 69%
Closest competitors among BigCommerce stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 95 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 103 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.8 s
1.6 s
2.4 s
3.3 s
4.1 s
4.9 s
5.7 s
6.5 s
a1tarps.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.3 s · 986 KiBAbout 986 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.3 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.7 s · 648 KiB19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (648 KiB).
Improve image delivery
1.6 s · 606 KiB9 images could be 606 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.3 s7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.
Mobile performance score: 38
38/100Your mobile performance score is 38. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google Tag Manager and Bigcommerce and others), adding 3.3 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
750 ms · 186 KiBAbout 186 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
YouTube adds 481 ms
481 msYouTube costs a phone 481 ms of main-thread work and 984 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 adds 278 ms
278 msBigcommerce costs a phone 278 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 339 ms
339 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 339 ms of main-thread work and 644 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.
Main-thread work: 2.8 s
A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
2,474 HTML elements
The page has 2,474 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Duplicated JavaScript
250 ms · 17 KiB17 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.
10 long tasks on the main thread
10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 182 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Minify JavaScript
150 ms · 5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Legacy JavaScript
100 ms · 25 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 100 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.
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Server response: 13 ms
13 msYour server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 14.5 s
14.5 sYour largest element takes 14.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Time to Interactive: 20.1 s
20.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 20.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.674
0.674The layout shifts by 0.674 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Total Blocking Time: 401 ms
401 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 401 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 4.6 s
4.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s
1.8 sThe first text or image appears after 1.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
1 image without width and height
1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+8%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 103 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 11% slower for real visitors
+11%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 102 ms
102 msReal visitors wait 102 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 783 ms
783 msReal visitors wait 783 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.6 MB in 112 requests
3.6 MBYour homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 112 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (27), images 930 KiB (46) and fonts 510 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
fittings_for_diy_projects__86953.png 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).
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (280 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
1.03 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.03 g of CO₂e: 123.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
34 text elements with low contrast
34 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
10 tap targets too small
10 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
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.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
9 links without text
9 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h5, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
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Every image has alt text
All 46 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 59 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 7 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
3 links crawlers can't follow
3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
2 links with vague text
2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
422 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 422 pages on a1tarps.com and 0 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 152 characters
Your meta description is 152 characters: “Find a wide range of heavy-duty and premium-quality canopies, tarps and accessories for residential and commercial use …”.
Title: 47 characters
Your title is a healthy 47 characters: “Canopies, Tarps, Tents & Accessories - A1 Tarps”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://a1tarps.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.
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://a1tarps.com/xmlsitemap.php.
AI search readiness
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.
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.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and contact details; sameAs (social profiles) and description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,958 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
8 pages without a meta description
/tarps/poly-tarps/heavy-duty-poly-tarps/silver-poly-tarps-12-mil, /tarps/poly-tarps/heavy-duty-poly-tarps/white-poly-tarps-12-mil, /tarps/poly-tarps/heavy-duty-poly-tarps/tan-poly-tarps-12-mil, /tarps/poly-tarps/red-poly-tarps-12-mil, /tarps/poly-tarps/orange-poly-tarps-12-mil and /tarps/poly-tarps/green-poly-tarps-12-mil and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 156 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
5 third-party cookies
5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
49 of 55 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 0 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (a1tarps.com).
Valid certificate (85 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for a1tarps.com and is valid for another 85 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
http:// redirects to https
http://a1tarps.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 40 links work
All 40 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 0 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
Domain expires in 70 days
a1tarps.com is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.
No CAA record
a1tarps.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.
DNSSEC is off
a1tarps.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.
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Domain is 19 years old
19 yearsa1tarps.com was registered in Jan 2007 through Domain.com - Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
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.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 914 words of copy
The homepage carries about 914 words of visible text.
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Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP NOW” and “SHOP BUILD YOUR CUSTOM CANOPY FRAME!”.
11 calls to action
The homepage has 11 calls to action, for example “Register”, “Contact Us” and “Shop Now”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be a1tarps.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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.
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SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 +a +mx include:_spf.bigcommerce.com include:spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “smtp”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics 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.
14 cookies set on arrival
14Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
20 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- E-commerce
- BigCommerce
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Bigcommerce
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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