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artisanborn.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202624 issues · 82 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on artisanborn.com, 8 of them high impact, across 82 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
89B- #3,438 of 109,350 reviewed websitesbeats 95%
- #1,788 of 61,859 online storesbeats 95%
- #1,736 of 56,401 Shopify storesbeats 95%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.7 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 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.4 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 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 105 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 115 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 120 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
Render-blocking requests
2.9 s10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.9 s.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.6 s · 315 KiBAbout 315 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 73
73/100Your mobile performance score is 73. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
750 ms · 109 KiB1 image could be 109 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 232 ms
232 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 232 ms of main-thread work and 483 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.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Optimize and Google CDN and others), adding 791 KiB and 300 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 20 KiB6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (20 KiB).
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 132 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Reduce unused CSS
19 KiBAbout 19 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.
Minify CSS
3 KiB3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.6 s
A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 231 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 11.3 s
11.3 sYour largest element takes 11.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “nav_icon”.
Time to Interactive: 11.3 s
11.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 11.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 3.9 s
3.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Tap response (INP) got 14% slower for real visitors
+14%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 105 ms to 120 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
10 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: 1.4 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: 93 ms
93 msReal visitors wait 93 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.03
0.03For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 421 ms
421 msReal visitors wait 421 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 14% faster for real visitors
-14%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Total Blocking Time: 89 ms
89 msScripts block the page for only 89 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
1 image far larger than shown
77 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example desktop-hero-v3_2000x.jpg at 2,000 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 77 KiB.
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.49 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.49 g of CO₂e: 58.3 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: 1.7 MB in 89 requests
1.7 MBYour homepage downloads 1.7 MB in 89 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (28), images 312 KiB (41) and fonts 227 KiB (8). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
16 text elements with low contrast
16 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
12 tap targets too small
12 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
7 images without alt text
7 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (8 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
16 links without text
16 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.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (1 element)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
1 checks passed
42 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 8 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
6 links crawlers can't follow
6 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
221 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 221 pages on artisanborn.com and 3 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 146 characters
Your meta description is 146 characters: “Artisan Born is a family-owned, American-made producer of solid wood slab furniture, countertops and furniture located …”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Artisan Born”.
Title: 65 characters
Your title is a healthy 65 characters: “Artisan Born - Innovative, Natural, Handmade Solid Wood Furniture”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://artisanborn.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.
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://artisanborn.com/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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,031 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://artisanborn.com/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://artisanborn.com/pages/trade has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
https://artisanborn.com/pages/contact has 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 102 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://obscure-escarpment-2240.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/bcpo-front.css' from origin 'htt…”.
2 distorted images
2 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
27 of 29 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 535 words of copy
The homepage carries about 535 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop by Room” and “SIGNUP”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Call Us +1-800-674-0616”, “SIGNUP” and “Shop by Room”.
6 short forms
6 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 30 testimonial or review blocks and “Over 5000 happy customers”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 4 phone links and 1 email link.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo (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.
7 cookies set on arrival
7Opening 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.
13 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 13 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 artisanborn.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
Blockify Fraud Filter · Chatra Live Chat Chatbot · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Region Restrictions · Announcement Bar Maker By Apphero · luckyorange.com · herokuapp.com · w3apps.co
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
- The footer still says © 2024.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 24 issues on artisanborn.com, including 8 speed issues and 1 SEO issue. 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.
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- 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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