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bioionic.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202615 issues · 81 checks
This review found 15 issues worth fixing on bioionic.com, 6 of them high impact, across 81 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 4.9 MB. 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 | 1.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 140 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 145 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 149 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 158 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 155 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) held steady for real visitors
+6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 140 ms to 155 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 1.6 s to 1.5 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: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 157 ms
157 msReal visitors wait 157 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: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 464 ms
464 msReal visitors wait 464 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.9 MB
4.9 MBYour homepage downloads 4.9 MB on a phone, 692 KiB of it images (14%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
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: 167.6 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
8 tap targets too small
8 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
5 text elements with low contrast
5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (4 elements)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
8 images without alt text
8 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
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.
1 checks passed
54 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: 54 passed and 5 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
3 H1 headlines
There are 3 <h1> headlines (“35% Off for Verified Groups”, “2026 Holiday Gift Guide” and “30% Off SMART-X™”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
59 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 59 pages on bioionic.com and 8 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 159 characters
Your meta description is 159 characters: “Bio Ionic's ion-powered hair tools are a stylist favorite that work just as well at home, backed by our Moisturizing He…”.
Title: 60 characters
Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “Professional Hair Tools for Healthy-Looking Hair | Bio Ionic”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://bioionic.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage 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://bioionic.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.
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.
Organization data: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details; logo would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,134 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
/pages/holiday-gift-guide has 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 34 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 9 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 broken images
2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/flag-icon-css/4.1.4/flags/4x3/us.svg.
18 small tap targets
18 of 57 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
5 JavaScript errors while loading
5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
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.
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 (bioionic.com).
Valid certificate (66 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for bioionic.com and is valid for another 66 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://bioionic.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 45 links work
All 45 links checked from your homepage (37 internal, 8 external) answered without errors; 2 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
bioionic.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 27 years old
27 yearsbioionic.com was registered in Jul 1999 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only comodoca.com, digicert.com, globalsign.com and letsencrypt.org to issue certificates for bioionic.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Jul 2029
bioionic.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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 16 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 694 words of copy
The homepage carries about 694 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
7 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop the 2026 Holiday Gift Guide” and “SHOP ALL”.
30 calls to action
The homepage has 30 calls to action, for example “Shop the 2026 Holiday Gift Guide”, “Shop” and “SHOP THE GIFT GUIDE”.
10 short forms
10 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
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.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be bioionic.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 75/100
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 with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 ip4:44.231.48.70 mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “k1”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel 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.
42 cookies set on arrival
42Opening the homepage sets 42 cookies (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.
67 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 67 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 16 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
Blockify Fraud Filter · Consentmo Gdpr · Yotpo Product Reviews · Microsoft Clarity · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Tolstoy · Unveild Bioionic · Convert Experiences · Elevar Conversion Tracking · Minmaxify Order Limits · Optimonk Popup Cro A B Test · Region Restrictions · Convert Web Pixel · Gdpr Backpack · Freegifts
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
- 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 15 issues on bioionic.com, including 1 SEO issue and 2 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.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- 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
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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