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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.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.1 s1.7 sMay 9Oct 242.0 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20261.8 s
May 16, 20261.9 s
May 23, 20261.9 s
May 30, 20262.0 s
Jun 6, 20262.0 s
Jun 13, 20261.9 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20262.0 s
Jul 11, 20262.0 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20261.9 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.9 s
Aug 15, 20262.0 s
Aug 22, 20262.0 s
Aug 29, 20262.0 s
Sep 5, 20262.0 s
Sep 12, 20262.0 s
Sep 19, 20262.0 s
Sep 26, 20262.0 s
Oct 3, 20262.1 s
Oct 10, 20262.1 s
Oct 17, 20262.1 s
Oct 24, 20262.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
107 ms90 msMay 9Oct 24103 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 202695 ms
May 16, 202696 ms
May 23, 202696 ms
May 30, 202697 ms
Jun 6, 2026101 ms
Jun 13, 202699 ms
Jun 20, 2026100 ms
Jun 27, 202699 ms
Jul 4, 202698 ms
Jul 11, 202698 ms
Jul 18, 202696 ms
Jul 25, 202695 ms
Aug 1, 202695 ms
Aug 8, 202692 ms
Aug 15, 202695 ms
Aug 22, 202696 ms
Aug 29, 202696 ms
Sep 5, 2026102 ms
Sep 12, 202698 ms
Sep 19, 2026103 ms
Sep 26, 2026104 ms
Oct 3, 2026104 ms
Oct 10, 2026105 ms
Oct 17, 2026103 ms
Oct 24, 2026103 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

Full-page screenshot of a1tarps.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. a1tarps.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  2. a1tarps.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  3. a1tarps.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  4. a1tarps.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  5. a1tarps.com at 4.1 s4.1 s
  6. a1tarps.com at 4.9 s4.9 s
  7. a1tarps.com at 5.7 s5.7 s
  8. a1tarps.com at 6.5 s6.5 s

a1tarps.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

12 to fix38
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.3 s · 986 KiB

    About 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 KiB

    19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (648 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    1.6 s · 606 KiB

    9 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 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 38

    38/100

    Your 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 KiB

    About 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 ms

    YouTube 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 ms

    Bigcommerce 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 ms

    Google 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 KiB

    17 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 KiB

    5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    100 ms · 25 KiB

    Polyfills 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 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 14.5 s

    14.5 s

    Your 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 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 20.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.674

    0.674

    The 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 ms

    Scripts 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 s

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

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    The 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 s

    Real 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 ms

    Real visitors wait 102 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 783 ms

    783 ms

    Real visitors wait 783 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix83
  • Page weight: 3.6 MB in 112 requests

    3.6 MB

    Your 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 g

    By 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

7 to fixGoogle 8492
  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 7788
  • 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.

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  • 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

100
  • 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.

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  • 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

1 to fix95
  • 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.

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  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 7797
  • 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”).

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  • 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

1 to fix93
  • 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.

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  • 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

1 to fix
  • 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 years

    a1tarps.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

2 to fix81
  • 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

1 to fix70
  • 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

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before 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

    14

    Opening 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.

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