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beatgoeson.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202640 issues · 103 checks
This review found 40 issues worth fixing on beatgoeson.com, 9 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
80B- #34,333 of 88,205 reviewed websitesbeats 55%
- #21,148 of 45,744 online storesbeats 47%
- #20,192 of 41,023 Shopify storesbeats 44%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 137 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 141 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 182 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 175 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 166 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 150 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.5 s
1.1 s
1.6 s
2.1 s
2.7 s
3.2 s
3.7 s
4.3 s
beatgoeson.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Improve image delivery
1.1 s · 1.1 MB44 images could be 1.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (hcaptcha.com, Shopify and pop-convert.com and others), adding 1.9 MB and 1.6 s of main-thread time.
hcaptcha.com adds 949 ms
949 mshcaptcha.com costs a phone 949 ms of main-thread work and 1.2 MB 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.
Mobile performance score: 57
57/100Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
300 ms · 445 KiBAbout 445 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Shopify adds 459 ms
459 msShopify costs a phone 459 ms of main-thread work and 457 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.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
Main-thread work: 4.0 s
A phone's processor spends 4.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
13 long tasks on the main thread
13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 354 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
295 KiB19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (295 KiB).
2,600 HTML elements
The page has 2,600 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Legacy JavaScript
21 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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.
Minify JavaScript
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
1 checks passed
Server response: 8 ms
8 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 8.6 s
8.6 sYour largest element takes 8.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 22.7 s
22.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 22.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.1 s
6.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 422 ms
422 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 422 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 137 ms to 150 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 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.1 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: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors wait 1.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 171 ms
171 msReal visitors wait 171 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.03
0.03For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 0.9 s
0.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 494 ms
494 msReal visitors wait 494 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.096
0.096The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.096, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.9 MB in 351 requests
4.9 MBYour homepage downloads 4.9 MB in 351 requests on a phone: images 1.7 MB (51), scripts 1.5 MB (70) and other files 1.3 MB (196). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Boutique_Slideshow_copy_550x.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).
About 1.4 g of CO₂ per visit
1.40 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.40 g of CO₂e: 167.9 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
Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)
Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 tap target too small
1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)
Heading levels should only increase by one: 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.
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.
7 links without text
7 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 checks passed
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 59 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 7 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (16 characters)
Your title is only 16 characters: “The Beat Goes On”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “ld+json block 3 is not valid JSON (Unexpected number in JSON at position 682 (line 17 column 62)”.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
523 internal links, 13 external
The homepage links to 523 pages on beatgoeson.com and 13 external pages.
4 checks passed
Meta description: 99 characters
Your meta description is 99 characters: “Canada's largest seller of used physical media, including CDs, LPs, Blu-rays, DVDs and video games.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://beatgoeson.com/.
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://beatgoeson.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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,318 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
2 pages without a meta description
/collections/audiophile and /collections/new-cds-under-10 have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 184 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
9 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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 an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 4 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
48 small tap targets
48 of 163 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 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 ()”.
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://instagram.com/thebgo.
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 (beatgoeson.com).
Valid certificate (62 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for beatgoeson.com and is valid for another 62 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://beatgoeson.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 47 links work
All 47 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 7 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
beatgoeson.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
beatgoeson.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 28 years old
28 yearsbeatgoeson.com was registered in Nov 1997 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Nov 2027
beatgoeson.com is registered until Nov 2027.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 4 trust badges. 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.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
About 749 words of copy
The homepage carries about 749 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
15 calls to action
The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Contact Us” and “Learn More”.
7 short forms
7 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be beatgoeson.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 ip4:170.205.18.100 ip4:45.62.203.162 ip4:208.80.200.0/21 ip4:149.56.44.19/32 ip4:64.26.60.0/24 ip4:192.99.179.17…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “k1”, “k2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager 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.
19 cookies set on arrival
19Opening the homepage sets 19 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.
30 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 30 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 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
- Swym Wishlist Plus · problem reported Oct 2026attackers planted code in its settings that sent shoppers who pressed Checkout to a fake checkout page taking card details. What to do: make sure it's on version 7.0.18 or later, check its settings for code or HTML you didn't add, and test checkout in a private window.
Your store uses an app that was used in an attack. That is not a sign you were hit: check the app as described.
Apps your storefront loads
Sales Discounts · Okas Live Search Filter · Page Speed Optimizer · Swym Wishlist Plus · chimpstatic.com · printful.com · pop-convert.com · nfcube.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
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 40 issues on beatgoeson.com, including 15 speed issues, 6 SEO issues and 4 conversion gaps. 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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- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
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