Website review, no card needed

bonfire.com logo

bonfire.com website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202623 issues · 93 checks

This review found 23 issues worth fixing on bonfire.com, 9 of them high impact, across 93 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.3 s3.0 sMay 16Oct 313.0 s
Show as table
DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20263.2 s
May 23, 20263.2 s
May 30, 20263.2 s
Jun 6, 20263.2 s
Jun 13, 20263.2 s
Jun 20, 20263.2 s
Jun 27, 20263.2 s
Jul 4, 20263.2 s
Jul 11, 20263.2 s
Jul 18, 20263.2 s
Jul 25, 20263.2 s
Aug 1, 20263.1 s
Aug 8, 20263.1 s
Aug 15, 20263.1 s
Aug 22, 20263.1 s
Aug 29, 20263.2 s
Sep 5, 20263.2 s
Sep 12, 20263.2 s
Sep 26, 20263.2 s
Oct 3, 20263.2 s
Oct 10, 20263.2 s
Oct 17, 20263.1 s
Oct 24, 20263.0 s
Oct 31, 20263.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
179 ms155 msMay 16Oct 31172 ms
Show as table
DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026159 ms
May 23, 2026158 ms
May 30, 2026161 ms
Jun 6, 2026162 ms
Jun 13, 2026164 ms
Jun 20, 2026167 ms
Jun 27, 2026170 ms
Jul 4, 2026169 ms
Jul 11, 2026169 ms
Jul 18, 2026169 ms
Jul 25, 2026166 ms
Aug 1, 2026166 ms
Aug 8, 2026164 ms
Aug 15, 2026165 ms
Aug 22, 2026166 ms
Aug 29, 2026169 ms
Sep 5, 2026170 ms
Sep 12, 2026170 ms
Sep 26, 2026172 ms
Oct 3, 2026175 ms
Oct 10, 2026175 ms
Oct 17, 2026176 ms
Oct 24, 2026173 ms
Oct 31, 2026172 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

Live view · interaction off

Speed

7 to fix60
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.5 s · 288 KiB

    About 288 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.1 s · 185 KiB

    11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (185 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.1 s

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 60

    60/100

    Your mobile performance score is 60. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Framer CDN, Intercom and termly.io and others), adding 2.6 MB and 692 ms of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    941 KiB

    26 images could be 941 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Framer CDN adds 492 ms

    492 ms

    Framer CDN costs a phone 492 ms of main-thread work and 2.1 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.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 134 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    12 KiB

    About 12 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 983 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 11 ms

    11 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 11 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 14.9 s

    14.9 s

    Your largest element takes 14.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Green hoodie with "Say Yes to New Adventures" slogan design.”.

  • Time to Interactive: 15.2 s

    15.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 15.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.0 s

    4.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 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 159 ms to 172 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.2 s to 3.0 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: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    Real visitors wait 1.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 156 ms

    156 ms

    Real visitors wait 156 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.03

    0.03

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 735 ms

    735 ms

    Real visitors wait 735 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.033

    0.033

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.033, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 42 ms

    42 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 42 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix78
  • Page weight: 2.6 MB in 108 requests

    2.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 108 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (48), scripts 907 KiB (45) and fonts 245 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 12 images below the first screen load straight away

    12 images further down the page (582 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.75 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.75 g of CO₂e: 89.9 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

3 to fixGoogle 8994
  • Links look like plain text

    10 links inside paragraphs rely on colour alone to stand out.

  • 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.

  • 6 links without text

    6 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 71 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 41 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9289
  • 3 H1 headlines

    There are 3 <h1> headlines (“The easy way to sell merch online”, “The easy way to sell merch online” and “The easy way to sell merch online”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • Structured data has 2 problems

    Structured data found (FAQPage, Organization and Service) but with 2 problems, for example “Service: missing name”.

  • 5 links crawlers can't follow

    5 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 143 internal links, 28 external

    The homepage links to 143 pages on bonfire.com and 28 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 160 characters

    Your meta description is 160 characters: “Design premium custom merch to sell online or place a direct order. Upload your design in our free online tool & choose…”.

  • Title: 50 characters

    Your title is a healthy 50 characters: “Bonfire: Design your own custom merch the easy way”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.bonfire.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://www.bonfire.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • Parts of the site are closed to 3 AI crawlers

    Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User) and Perplexity (PerplexityBot) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.

3 checks passed
  • Organization data: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (981 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (5 KiB, 32 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 4 pages without an H1

    /start, /start/design, /org/national-forest-foundation-521786332 and /about have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 4 pages with very little text

    /start, /start/design, /org/national-forest-foundation-521786332 and /about have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 43 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    19 of 23 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • No clickjacking protection

    Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

  • 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.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (bonfire.com).

  • Valid certificate (37 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for bonfire.com and is valid for another 37 days.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://bonfire.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2

    The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 50 links work

    All 50 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 10 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    bonfire.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

    bonfire.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 31 years old

    31 years

    bonfire.com was registered in Aug 1995 through NameCheap, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Aug 2031

    bonfire.com is registered until Aug 2031.

Content and conversion

1 to fix93
  • 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 638 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 638 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Get started for free”.

  • 29 calls to action

    The homepage has 29 calls to action, for example “Order products”, “Get started for free” and “Start designing”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: a star rating and 1 trust badge.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

95
  • Email authentication score: 95/100

    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.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 cookie set on arrival

    1

    Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 7 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

2 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Termly

    A consent management tool (Termly) loads with the page.

  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

CMS
Framer fe19a06
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | Heap
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Founded
2012
Headquarters
Richmond

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 bonfire.com, including 11 speed issues, 3 SEO issues and 1 conversion gap. 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

By continuing you agree to the Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Policy.

Free requests are written in the order they come in, so it can take a while. Pay $25 and yours is ready within a few hours. Either way you get a shareable link and a PDF.

  • No subscription
  • Free, or $25 to skip the line
  • Money-back guarantee

14-day money-back guarantee: not happy for any reason, email us within 14 days and we refund in full.

Get the full playbook · $25