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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202646 issues · 112 checks
This review found 46 issues worth fixing on activedogs.com, 16 of them high impact, across 112 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
78C- #40,207 of 81,427 reviewed websitesbeats 45%
- #23,346 of 40,295 online storesbeats 36%
- #270 of 716 BigCommerce storesbeats 57%
Closest competitors among BigCommerce stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 119 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 121 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 113 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
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
4.5 s · 1.8 MBAbout 1.8 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.5 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.3 s · 949 KiB33 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (949 KiB).
Improve image delivery
1.1 s · 878 KiB10 images could be 878 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 1.1 s
1.1 sGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 1.1 s of main-thread work and 1.4 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.
Mobile performance score: 35
35/100Your mobile performance score is 35. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 6.4 s
A phone's processor spends 6.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, POWr and powrcdn.com and others), adding 4.4 MB and 2.9 s of main-thread time.
Render-blocking requests
900 ms9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.
POWr adds 649 ms
649 msPOWr costs a phone 649 ms of main-thread work and 57 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 235 KiBAbout 235 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
powrcdn.com adds 391 ms
391 mspowrcdn.com costs a phone 391 ms of main-thread work and 946 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 186 ms
186 msBigcommerce costs a phone 186 ms of main-thread work and 1.4 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.
2,857 HTML elements
The page has 2,857 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 255 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
getredo.com adds 193 ms
193 msgetredo.com costs a phone 193 ms of main-thread work and 331 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.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 21 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Minify JavaScript
150 ms · 9 KiB9 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 19 ms
19 msYour server sent the HTML in 19 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 17.8 s
17.8 sYour largest element takes 17.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 33.3 s
33.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 33.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 12.9 s
12.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 12.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 1.2 s
1.2 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.2 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 3.4 s
3.4 sThe first text or image appears after 3.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
27 images without width and height
27 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 119 ms to 113 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 checks passed
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: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 128 ms
128 msReal visitors wait 128 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: 415 ms
415 msReal visitors wait 415 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.6 MB in 212 requests
5.6 MBYour homepage downloads 5.6 MB in 212 requests on a phone: scripts 3.5 MB (98), images 1.2 MB (34) and stylesheets 370 KiB (20). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
caliberdog2__14242.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).
1 image in older formats
1 image (213 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.
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (213 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit
1.57 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.57 g of CO₂e: 189.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
2 buttons without a name
2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
5 tap targets too small
5 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Interactive controls must not be nested (2 elements)
Interactive controls must not be nested: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
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.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 19 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
50 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 57 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 7 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
Meta description is long (226 characters)
Your meta description is 226 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
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.
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.
161 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 161 pages on activedogs.com and 8 external pages.
4 checks passed
Title: 55 characters
Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Shop Dog Gears, Equipments and Accessories | ActiveDogs”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://activedogs.com/.
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://activedogs.com/xmlsitemap.php.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
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.
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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (710 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 linked page hidden from search
/request-return is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
2 pages share a meta description
/compare and /giftcertificates.php use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 page without an H1
/request-return has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 109 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
12 small tap targets
12 of 47 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
3 third-party cookies
3 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Deprecated browser APIs
The page uses 2 deprecated browser APIs that will stop working in future browsers (“webkitRequestAnimationFrame is vendor-specific. Please use the standard requestAnimationFrame inste…”).
5 JavaScript errors while loading
5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Unexpected identifier 'contentId'”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
1 checks passed
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.
No clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
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.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (activedogs.com).
Valid certificate (52 days left)
The certificate from DigiCert, Inc. · Encryption Everywhere G3 TLS ECC P384 SHA384 2023 CA1 verifies for activedogs.com and is valid for another 52 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://activedogs.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 44 links work
All 44 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 4 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
activedogs.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
activedogs.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 23 years old
23 yearsactivedogs.com was registered in Jan 2003 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jan 2030
activedogs.com is registered until Jan 2030.
Content and conversion
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
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 774 words of copy
The homepage carries about 774 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop Tactical Dog Gear” and “Shop All Products”.
15 calls to action
The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Register”, “Shop All Products” and “Shop Service Dog Gear”.
14 short forms
14 short forms (5 fields at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 12 testimonial or review blocks and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be activedogs.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
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 score: 65/100
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.
1 checks passed
SPF with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 +a +mx include:_spf.bigcommerce.com include:_spf.google.com -all”.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
16 cookies set on arrival
16Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
41 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 41 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: CookieYes
A consent management tool (CookieYes) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- BigCommerce
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Bigcommerce
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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