audioquest.com website review

The page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 9.3 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

About 680 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.

Your mobile performance score is 64 (desktop: 79). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 947 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Shopify costs a phone 53 ms of main-thread work and 414 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 load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Shopify and langshop.app and others), adding 760 KiB and 214 ms of main-thread time.

Polyfills for old browsers add 27 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 91 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (18 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.

3 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

Your largest element takes 14.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 15.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 4.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

10 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 93 ms to 98 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.9 MB in 350 requests on a phone: scripts 1.8 MB (158), other files 996 KiB (112) and images 782 KiB (25). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

aq-speaker-rocket-33-ls-1b.jpg 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 (44 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.12 g of CO₂e: 134.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

10 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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

Elements with role="dialog" or role="alertdialog" do not have accessible names. (1 element).

Headings skip levels (h2 → h5, h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your title is only 10 characters: “AudioQuest”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is 184 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

6 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 202 pages on audioquest.com and 5 external pages.

/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.

/customer_authentication/redirect, /collections/cables, /collections/bi-wire-speaker-cables, /collections/bi-amp-speaker-cables, /collections/3-5mm-mini-interconnects and /collections/rca-interconnects and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/customer_authentication/redirect and /collections/bass-cables have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 135 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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://www.audioquest.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.

audioquest.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.

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.

The homepage has only about 247 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

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.

Before 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.

Opening the homepage sets 13 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 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.