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banish.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202631 issues · 86 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on banish.com, 9 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
87B- #7,647 of 109,322 reviewed websitesbeats 90%
- #4,459 of 61,848 online storesbeats 89%
- #4,330 of 56,398 Shopify storesbeats 89%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| 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 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 123 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 135 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Nov 7, 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
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.6 s · 350 KiBAbout 350 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.
Main-thread work: 5.5 s
A phone's processor spends 5.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,106 HTML elements
The page has 3,106 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Mobile performance score: 65
65/100Your mobile performance score is 65. 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 (Shopify, Klaviyo and rechargecdn.com and others), adding 1.4 MB and 610 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
300 ms · 87 KiB19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (87 KiB).
Shopify adds 168 ms
168 msShopify costs a phone 168 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.
Klaviyo adds 139 ms
139 msKlaviyo costs a phone 139 ms of main-thread work and 341 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.
Improve image delivery
250 ms · 206 KiB5 images could be 206 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 34 KiBAbout 34 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.
5 long tasks on the main thread
5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 99 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).
Legacy JavaScript
19 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify JavaScript
10 KiB10 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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: 10 ms
10 msYour server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 13.6 s
13.6 sYour largest element takes 13.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “board-certified dermatologists demonstrating the Banisher 3…”.
Time to Interactive: 15.2 s
15.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.8 s
6.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.4 s
2.4 sThe first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 15% slower for real visitors
+15%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 123 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
-6%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: 1.4 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: 118 ms
118 msReal visitors wait 118 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: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 663 ms
663 msReal visitors wait 663 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 100 ms
100 msScripts block the page for only 100 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).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.0 MB in 487 requests
4.0 MBYour homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 487 requests on a phone: other files 1.6 MB (278), scripts 1.3 MB (159) and images 772 KiB (26). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
2 images below the first screen load straight away
2 images further down the page (44 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
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: 134.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (1 element)
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
4 tap targets too small
4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (2 elements)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious 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.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
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.
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 52 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
44 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: 44 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Meta description is long (205 characters)
Your meta description is 205 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
93 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 93 pages on banish.com and 7 external pages.
7 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “BANISH”.
Title: 55 characters
Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Banish - Top Rated At Home Microneedling for Acne Scars”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://banish.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, 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://banish.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
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 (3,046 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://banish.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
https://banish.com/products/banish-kit-3-0 and https://banish.com/products/banish-kit-2-0 all use the title “Banish Kit 3.0: Safest Home Microneedling Tool for Acne Scars - up to…”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
3 pages without a meta description
https://banish.com/collections/replaceable-heads, https://banish.com/pages/about-banish and https://banish.com/blogs/microneedling have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages share a meta description
https://banish.com/products/banish-kit-3-0 and https://banish.com/products/banish-kit-2-0 use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 link to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://banish.com/products/banish-kit-2-0, whose canonical is https://banish.com/products/banish-kit-3-0. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
3 pages without an H1
https://banish.com/collections/all, https://banish.com/collections/replaceable-heads and https://banish.com/collections/all-kits 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 (of 38 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
3 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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
10 small tap targets
10 of 14 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
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.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
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.
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 938 words of copy
The homepage carries about 938 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 NOW”.
12 calls to action
The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “Shop All”, “Shop” and “Shop Now”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (0 fields at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks, a star rating and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Hotjar.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are 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.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 3 mores (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.
35 cookies set on arrival
35Opening the homepage sets 35 cookies, 3 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.
38 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 38 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 banish.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
Wingify · Inbox · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Judge Me Reviews · rechargecdn.com · global-e.com · socialsnowball.io · revenuehunt.com
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
- Hotjar
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- Pasadena
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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