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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202619 issues · 73 checks

This review found 19 issues worth fixing on amscan.co.uk, 3 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: no social proof. 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
1.4 s1.0 sMay 23Nov 71.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.1 s
May 30, 20261.1 s
Jun 6, 20261.2 s
Jun 13, 20261.2 s
Jun 20, 20261.1 s
Jun 27, 20261.2 s
Jul 4, 20261.2 s
Jul 11, 20261.2 s
Jul 18, 20261.2 s
Jul 25, 20261.3 s
Aug 1, 20261.2 s
Aug 8, 20261.4 s
Aug 15, 20261.3 s
Aug 22, 20261.3 s
Aug 29, 20261.2 s
Sep 5, 20261.3 s
Sep 12, 20261.3 s
Sep 19, 20261.2 s
Sep 26, 20261.2 s
Oct 3, 20261.2 s
Oct 10, 20261.1 s
Oct 17, 20261.2 s
Oct 24, 20261.3 s
Oct 31, 20261.3 s
Nov 7, 20261.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
139 ms68 msMay 23Nov 776 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 202680 ms
May 30, 202677 ms
Jun 6, 2026102 ms
Jun 13, 202691 ms
Jun 20, 202686 ms
Jun 27, 202687 ms
Jul 4, 202676 ms
Jul 11, 202694 ms
Jul 18, 2026110 ms
Jul 25, 2026131 ms
Aug 8, 2026109 ms
Aug 15, 202693 ms
Aug 22, 202690 ms
Aug 29, 202686 ms
Sep 5, 202686 ms
Sep 12, 202692 ms
Sep 19, 202696 ms
Sep 26, 2026122 ms
Oct 3, 2026104 ms
Oct 10, 202689 ms
Oct 17, 202687 ms
Oct 24, 202679 ms
Oct 31, 202679 ms
Nov 7, 202676 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 amscan.co.uk (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. amscan.co.uk at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. amscan.co.uk at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. amscan.co.uk at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. amscan.co.uk at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. amscan.co.uk at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. amscan.co.uk at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. amscan.co.uk at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. amscan.co.uk at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

4 to fix73
  • Mobile performance score: 73

    73/100

    Your mobile performance score is 73. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    700 ms · 181 KiB

    4 images could be 181 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 700 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    300 ms · 46 KiB

    About 46 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    300 ms

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, shop.app and easylockdownapp.com), adding 232 KiB and 127 ms of main-thread time.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 64 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify JavaScript

    12 KiB

    12 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    6 KiB

    4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6 KiB).

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 428 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

3 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Your largest element takes 6.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 6.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.0 s

    5.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 80 ms to 76 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 15% slower for real visitors

    +15%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

9 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: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 103 ms

    103 ms

    Real visitors wait 103 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.08

    0.08

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.08 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 592 ms

    592 ms

    Real visitors wait 592 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.8 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 15 ms

    15 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 15 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (76 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.51 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.51 g of CO₂e: 61.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • Page weight: 1.8 MB in 219 requests

    1.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.8 MB in 219 requests on a phone: other files 883 KiB (135), images 438 KiB (13) and scripts 398 KiB (50). That is a lean page.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 10098
  • 100 links without text

    100 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 32 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 0 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 8574
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • Title is short (10 characters)

    Your title is only 10 characters: “Amscan B2B”. 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.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • 286 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 286 pages on amscan.co.uk and 2 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Every celebration starts here.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://amscan.co.uk/.

  • 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://amscan.co.uk/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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 https://amscan.co.uk/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 (1,101 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 2 pages without a meta description

    https://amscan.co.uk/collections/occasions and https://amscan.co.uk/collections/balloons 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 91 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    6 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 2 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    128 of 129 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • 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 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 369 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 369 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop the collection →”.

  • 23 calls to action

    The homepage has 23 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Shop by theme→” and “Quick order”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

  • 7 cookies set on arrival

    7

    Opening the homepage sets 7 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.

  • 4 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at amscan.co.uk, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 2 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Bss B2b Solution · Ordereasy

Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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