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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 November 202623 issues · 74 checks
This review found 23 issues worth fixing on balmbare.com, 4 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: 1 text element with low contrast. 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) |
|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 81 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 92 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
Mobile performance score: 64
64/100Your mobile performance score is 64. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and Klaviyo and others), adding 646 KiB and 523 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
450 ms · 133 KiBAbout 133 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
Main-thread work: 2.1 s
A phone's processor spends 2.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 185 KiB6 images could be 185 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
4 long tasks on the main thread
4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 209 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 49 KiBAbout 49 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 45 KiB14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (45 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 19 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
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.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
1 checks passed
Server response: 13 ms
13 msYour server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 11.6 s
11.6 sYour largest element takes 11.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 11.6 s
11.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 11.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 5.9 s
5.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s
2.6 sThe first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 10% slower for real visitors
+10%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 92 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 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: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 70 ms
70 msReal visitors wait 70 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.02
0.02For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 510 ms
510 msReal visitors wait 510 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 175 ms
175 msScripts block the page for only 175 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001
0.001The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.0 MB in 339 requests
3.0 MBYour homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 339 requests on a phone: other files 1.4 MB (244), scripts 655 KiB (69) and fonts 593 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image far larger than shown
44 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example home-packaging-pair-dark-20260916.webp at 1,000 px wide, shown at 228 px. Resized copies would save about 44 KiB.
2 images in older formats
2 images (216 KiB) are 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.
About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.85 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.85 g of CO₂e: 101.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 6 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 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
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
41 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 41 pages on balmbare.com and 3 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 124 characters
Your meta description is 124 characters: “Shop Balmbare supplements for hair, gut and joint support, including Bloom Gummies, Hair Revive Gummies and Revive Plus…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “A better daily routine, made simple.”.
Title: 57 characters
Your title is a healthy 57 characters: “Balmbare | Hair, Gut & Joint Support Supplements – Balmve”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://balmve.com/.
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://balmve.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
3 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (530 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://balmve.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 linked pages hidden from search
https://balmve.com/collections/all and https://balmve.com/products/revive-plus-mix are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.
2 pages share a title
https://balmve.com/pages/contact and https://balmve.com/apps/parcelpanel all use the title “Balmve Account”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
11 pages without a meta description
https://balmve.com/pages/contact, https://balmve.com/a/loop_subscriptions/customer, https://balmve.com/pages/balmbare-creators, https://balmve.com/collections/all, https://balmve.com/pages/peptide-serum-balmve and https://balmve.com/pages/hair-growth-oil-balmve and 5 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 links to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://balmve.com/pages/more-than-probiotics-general, whose canonical is https://balmve.com/pages/mtp33. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
2 pages without an H1
https://balmve.com/a/loop_subscriptions/customer and https://balmve.com/products/revive-plus-mix have 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 and read each the way a search engine does.
2 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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 “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
15 of 16 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
About 322 words of copy
The homepage carries about 322 words of visible text.
7 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop the range →” and “Track order ↗”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “NO THANKS, CONTINUE WITH MY ORDER”, “Shop the range →” and “Track order”.
1 short form
A short form (0 fields at most) is right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.
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
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo, Microsoft Clarity and Snap Pixel 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.
26 cookies set on arrival
26Opening the homepage sets 26 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.
33 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 33 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 balmbare.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 4 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Bixgrow Affiliate · trustpilot.com · railway.app
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
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 23 issues on balmbare.com, including 9 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
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