andymark.com website review

About 475 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.4 s faster on a phone.

The page has 3,389 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Your mobile performance score is 55. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 82 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 482 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Key CDN and Google CDN and others), adding 1.1 MB and 180 ms of main-thread time.

A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Shopify costs a phone 66 ms of main-thread work and 836 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.

6 images could be 63 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (9 KiB).

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Your largest element takes 21.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 22.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 12.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 237 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 97 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.6 MB in 342 requests on a phone: images 4.7 MB (173), scripts 837 KiB (46) and other files 787 KiB (107). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.88 g of CO₂e: 225.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your meta description is 320 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

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

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

The homepage links to 460 pages on andymark.com and 20 external pages.

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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/apps/wishlist, /customer_authentication/redirect, /collections/new-for-2026, /collections/new-for-2025, /collections/new-for-2024 and /collections/new-for-2023 and 8 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/apps/wishlist, /customer_authentication/redirect, /collections/new-for-2026, /collections/new-for-2025, /collections/new-for-2024 and /collections/new-for-2023 and 6 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 198 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://andymark.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en&region_country=US.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

andymark.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 315 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

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: 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.

Opening the homepage sets 7 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.