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backdropsource.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202624 issues · 88 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on backdropsource.com, 7 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: 15 tap targets too small. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 108 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 132 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 142 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 146 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
Speed
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
Tap response (INP) got 42% slower for real visitors
+42%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 146 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
6 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 2.1 s
2.1 sReal visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 145 ms
145 msReal visitors wait 145 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 559 ms
559 msReal visitors wait 559 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.0 MB
4.0 MBYour homepage downloads 4.0 MB on a phone, 583 KiB of it images (14%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.12 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.12 g of CO₂e: 134.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
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.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
15 tap targets too small
15 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
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.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
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.
13 images without alt text
13 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
8 form fields without a label
8 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
5 links without text
5 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
48 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 8 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
616 internal links, 20 external
The homepage links to 616 pages on backdropsource.com and 20 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 154 characters
Your meta description is 154 characters: “Shop premium custom fabric displays, trade show booths, backdrops, SEG displays, and event solutions. Free shipping, ar…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Custom Backdrops for Events, Exhibitions & Branding”.
Title: 59 characters
Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Backdropsource | Custom Fabric Displays & Trade Show Booths”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.backdropsource.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: OnlineStore, WebPage and WebSite.
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://www.backdropsource.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: 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 (4,284 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a title
/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
1 page without a meta description
/customer_authentication/redirect has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 pages without an H1
/pages/our-work, /customer_authentication/redirect, /collections/media-walls, /products/premium-straight-tension-fabric-backdrop-display, /products/curved-tension-portable-media-wall and /products/3d-wall-box-fabric-exhibition-display and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
2 pages with very little text
/collections/media-walls and /products/s-shape-wave-fabric-display-wall have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 190 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
3 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.
Best practices
2 broken images
2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=17530323&Ver=2&mid=1e506724-52ab-4a4d-afdc-859fe3efc614&bo=1&sid=d76f4280d9af11f1956a9188fdf5dabd&vid=d76f4bb0d9af11f1aa3341ffd321484a&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg.
14 small tap targets
14 of 57 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.backdropsource.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en®ion_country=US.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (backdropsource.com).
Valid certificate (49 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for backdropsource.com and is valid for another 49 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://backdropsource.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 55 links work
All 55 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 15 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
backdropsource.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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 22 years old
22 yearsbackdropsource.com was registered in Jul 2004 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only globalsign.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and ssl.com to issue certificates for backdropsource.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Jul 2029
backdropsource.com is registered until Jul 2029.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
A 13-field form
Your longest form asks for 13 fields (2 required). Every extra field lowers completion.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
About 665 words of copy
The homepage carries about 665 words of visible text.
8 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Talk to an Expert”.
16 calls to action
The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Shop by Events”, “View all · Shop by Events” and “Talk to an Expert”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block, 168 customer or partner logos, a star rating, 8 trust badges and “1467+ Reviews”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 2 email links.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be backdropsource.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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.
2 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (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.
29 cookies set on arrival
29Opening the homepage sets 29 cookies, 1 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.
36 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 36 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 5 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.
Apps your storefront loads
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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
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- Las Vegas
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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