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bally.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202615 issues · 76 checks
This review found 15 issues worth fixing on bally.com, 0 of them high impact, across 76 checks. 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 | 2.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 164 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 161 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 160 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 161 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 161 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 164 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 165 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 168 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 168 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 176 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 190 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 192 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
Real-user TTFB: 909 ms
909 msReal visitors wait 909 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 19% slower for real visitors
+19%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 164 ms to 192 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 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: 2.5 s
2.5 sReal visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 192 ms
192 msReal visitors wait 192 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.04
0.04For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.04 (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.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.1 MB
3.1 MBYour homepage downloads 3.1 MB on a phone, 231 KiB of it images (7%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.88 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.88 g of CO₂e: 105.7 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
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 549 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Bally Global” and “Make It Iconic”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
37 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 37 pages on bally.com and 8 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 127 characters
Your meta description is 127 characters: “Bally Global: shop luxury leather shoes, bags, & accessories online. Worldwide access to heritage craftsmanship & moder…”.
Title: 56 characters
Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “Bally Global: Luxury Shoes, Bags and Leather Accessories”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.bally.com/en-us.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization 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.bally.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Opted out of AI training for 5 crawlers
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.
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, sameAs (social profiles) and description; logo and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,606 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 linked page hidden from search
/en-us/collections/ecom-us is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
9 pages without a meta description
/en-us/collections/women-sale, /en-us/collections/men-sale, /en-us/pages/wishlist, /en-us/collections/ecom-us, /en-us/products/15-mm-reversible-belt-in-black-and-taupe-leather-6313392 and /en-us/products/backpack-in-black-leather-6307869 and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
/en-us/collections/ecom-us 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 27 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 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 a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
7 small tap targets
7 of 17 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
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.
2 redirects before the homepage
Opening https://bally.com goes through 2 redirects before the homepage loads.
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 (bally.com).
Valid certificate (58 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for bally.com and is valid for another 58 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://bally.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 39 links work
All 39 links checked from your homepage (31 internal, 8 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
Domain expires in 61 days
bally.com is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.
No CAA record
bally.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.
DNSSEC is off
bally.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.
1 checks passed
Domain is 37 years old
37 yearsbally.com was registered in Jan 1989 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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.
About 269 words of copy
The homepage carries about 269 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop All”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “shop women”, “shop men” and “Shop All”.
7 short forms
7 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
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 score: 90/100
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
DMARC policy: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.
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). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
10 cookies set on arrival
10Opening the homepage sets 10 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
34 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 34 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
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
Company
- Founded
- 1851
- Headquarters
- Caslano
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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