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arenasaddles.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202632 issues · 81 checks
This review found 32 issues worth fixing on arenasaddles.com, 12 of them high impact, across 81 checks. The most urgent: avoid multiple page redirects. 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
80B- #43,283 of 109,350 reviewed websitesbeats 55%
- #28,717 of 61,859 online storesbeats 47%
- #27,632 of 56,401 Shopify storesbeats 44%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2026 | 855 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 857 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 796 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 831 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
Speed
Avoid multiple page redirects
13.7 sThe page goes through 2 redirects before it starts loading, costing about 13.7 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.
Improve image delivery
2.5 s · 652 KiB11 images could be 652 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.5 s faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.3 s · 404 KiBAbout 404 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.3 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.4 s · 122 KiB11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (122 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 65
65/100Your mobile performance score is 65. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
750 ms10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (arenasaddles.us, squarecdn.com and Klaviyo and others), adding 2.4 MB and 456 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 53 KiBAbout 53 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
arenasaddles.us adds 234 ms
234 msarenasaddles.us costs a phone 234 ms of main-thread work and 2.0 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.
Main-thread work: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 759 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Document request latency
100 msThe HTML itself could arrive about 100 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.
Legacy JavaScript
72 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 72 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 65 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Duplicated JavaScript
8 KiB8 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 4 ms
4 msYour server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 21.5 s
21.5 sYour largest element takes 21.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Show day, sorted”.
Time to Interactive: 21.8 s
21.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 21.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.3 s
8.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.1 s
2.1 sThe first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
4 images without width and height
4 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.9 s to 0.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
2 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 15 ms
15 msScripts block the page for only 15 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.4 MB in 256 requests
4.4 MBYour homepage downloads 4.4 MB in 256 requests on a phone: images 2.0 MB (30), scripts 1.2 MB (107) and other files 763 KiB (93). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
9 images below the first screen load straight away
9 images further down the page (287 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit
1.25 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.25 g of CO₂e: 150.2 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
2 buttons without a name
2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (1 element)
Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
2 text elements with low contrast
2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
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 (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 16 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 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Meta description is long (307 characters)
Your meta description is 307 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
Structured data has 3 problems
Structured data found (Store and WebSite) but with 3 problems, for example “WebSite: missing name”.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
3 links with vague text
3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
78 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 78 pages on arenasaddles.com and 4 external pages.
5 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Arena Saddles”.
Title: 36 characters
Your title is a healthy 36 characters: “Arena Saddles - Perfect in any Arena”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://arenasaddles.com.au/.
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://arenasaddles.com.au/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (423 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://arenasaddles.com.au/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://arenasaddles.com.au/pages/stockists has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page slow to respond
https://arenasaddles.com.au/collections/jump took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 40 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
18 of 21 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
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.
Only about 162 words
The homepage has only about 162 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact us”.
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Contact us”, “Shop show bags” and “General purpose saddles Shop now”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 48 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo 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.
21 cookies set on arrival
21Opening the homepage sets 21 cookies, 15 of them by other companies (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.
30 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 30 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 arenasaddles.com, 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 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Instafeed · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Okendo · Capi Facebook Pixel Meta Api · Facebook Instagram Pixels At · cloudfront.net · jst.ai · adtrace.ai
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
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 32 issues on arenasaddles.com, including 15 speed issues, 4 SEO issues and 4 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
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- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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