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adamscloud.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202628 issues · 100 checks
This review found 28 issues worth fixing on adamscloud.com, 7 of them high impact, across 100 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
86B- #7,711 of 81,199 reviewed websitesbeats 87%
- #4,205 of 40,115 online storesbeats 85%
- #4,049 of 35,505 Shopify storesbeats 84%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 103 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 99 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 85 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 83 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 88 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
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
adamscloud.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.4 s3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 75
75/100Your mobile performance score is 75 (desktop: 93). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 96 KiB5 images could be 96 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (omnisnippet1.com, Google CDN and Shopify and others), adding 347 KiB and 133 ms of main-thread time.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 14 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 14 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
89 KiB9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (89 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
66 KiBAbout 66 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Reduce unused CSS
18 KiBAbout 18 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
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.
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Main-thread work: 1.3 s
A phone's processor spends 1.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 451 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 31 ms
31 msYour server sent the HTML in 31 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.3 s
5.3 sYour largest element takes 5.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
First Contentful Paint: 2.9 s
2.9 sThe first text or image appears after 2.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 5.4 s
5.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 5.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
2 images without width and height
2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 88 ms 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: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 91 ms
91 msReal visitors wait 91 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: 0.9 s
0.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 367 ms
367 msReal visitors wait 367 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 21% faster for real visitors
-21%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Speed Index: 3.3 s
3.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.004
0.004The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.004, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
ac-slider-test-mobile.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 in older formats
1 image (37 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 (27 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit
0.43 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.43 g of CO₂e: 52.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.5 MB in 144 requests
1.5 MBYour homepage downloads 1.5 MB in 144 requests on a phone: other files 737 KiB (87), scripts 410 KiB (39) and images 266 KiB (9). That is a lean page.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Unlabelled dropdowns
1 dropdown has no label.
9 text elements with low contrast
9 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
5 tap targets too small
5 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
<svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text (2 elements)
<svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious 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.
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.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 26 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
47 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 8 failed. 5 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 (12 characters)
Your title is only 12 characters: “Adam's Cloud”. 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.
5 links with vague text
5 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
45 internal links, 9 external
The homepage links to 45 pages on adamscloud.com and 9 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 116 characters
Your meta description is 116 characters: “Adam's Cloud is a Collection of Children's Books. Incredibly Illustrated, Inspiring, Rhyming and Full of Adventures.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.adamscloud.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://www.adamscloud.com/sitemap.xml.
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.
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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (626 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
/blogs/news has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
7 pages without an H1
/collections/adams-cloud-all, /collections/books-1, /blogs/news, /pages/the-adams-cloud-book-age-guide, /pages/christening-gifts and /pages/fun-stuff and 1 other have 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 24 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.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
12 small tap targets
12 of 45 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
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.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (adamscloud.com).
Valid certificate (78 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for adamscloud.com and is valid for another 78 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://adamscloud.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 31 links work
All 31 links checked from your homepage (26 internal, 5 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
adamscloud.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 17 years old
17 yearsadamscloud.com was registered in Mar 2009 through Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only globalsign.com, digicert.com, ssl.com and letsencrypt.org to issue certificates for adamscloud.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Mar 2030
adamscloud.com is registered until Mar 2030.
Content and conversion
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 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 633 words of copy
The homepage carries about 633 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” and “Benji's Book Readings”.
14 calls to action
The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Benji's Book Readings” and “Contact Us”.
9 short forms
9 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block and 5 customer or partner logos.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be adamscloud.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.
Email authentication score: 75/100
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 with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mailgun.org -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “s1”, “s2” and “smtp”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (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.
10 cookies set on arrival
10Opening the homepage sets 10 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.
19 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 19 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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