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activelyblack.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 31 October 202626 issues · 71 checks
This review found 26 issues worth fixing on activelyblack.com, 8 of them high impact, across 71 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 6.9 MB. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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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 | 1.8 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 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 154 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 161 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 162 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 172 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 172 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 163 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
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 154 ms to 163 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+8%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).
6 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 2.0 s
2.0 sReal visitors wait 2.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 162 ms
162 msReal visitors wait 162 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.01
0.01For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 693 ms
693 msReal visitors wait 693 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 6.9 MB
6.9 MBYour homepage downloads 6.9 MB on a phone, 1.5 MB of it images (21%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
3 images below the first screen load straight away
3 images further down the page (104 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 2.0 g of CO₂ per visit
1.96 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.96 g of CO₂e: 234.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
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
Images must have alternative text (7 elements)
Images must have alternative text: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.
22 text elements with low contrast
22 text elements don'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 (4 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
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.
Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)
Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
1 checks passed
51 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: 51 passed and 8 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Title is short (14 characters)
Your title is only 14 characters: “Actively Black”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
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 short (50 characters)
Your meta description is only 50 characters: “Premium, Black owned athleisure and sports apparel”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.
Only 0 internal links
The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://activelyblack.com/.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
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://activelyblack.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Most text only appears after JavaScript runs
0%A phone browser shows 1,790 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 0. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.
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.
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.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Best practices
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://files.alia-prod.com/image1.png-1744243322134.
16 small tap targets
16 of 59 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 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.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
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 (activelyblack.com).
Valid certificate (58 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for activelyblack.com and is valid for another 58 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://activelyblack.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.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
activelyblack.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
activelyblack.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 6 years old
6 yearsactivelyblack.com was registered in Jun 2020 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jun 2027
activelyblack.com is registered until Jun 2027.
Content and conversion
No calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 1,790 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,790 words of visible text.
1 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP” and “SHOP WOMEN”.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be activelyblack.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.
2 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel 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.
30 cookies set on arrival
30Opening the homepage sets 30 cookies (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.
55 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 55 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
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
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