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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202629 issues · 71 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on bowmarscents.com, 4 of them high impact, across 71 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

Full-page screenshot of bowmarscents.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. bowmarscents.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. bowmarscents.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. bowmarscents.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. bowmarscents.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. bowmarscents.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. bowmarscents.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. bowmarscents.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. bowmarscents.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

10 to fix69
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.1 s

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

  • Improve image delivery

    700 ms · 406 KiB

    10 images could be 406 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 700 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    750 ms · 290 KiB

    21 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (290 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 69

    69/100

    Your mobile performance score is 69. 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 (loox.io, Klaviyo and POWr and others), adding 954 KiB and 733 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    310 ms · 169 KiB

    About 169 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 3.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 2,222 HTML elements

    The page has 2,222 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Klaviyo adds 154 ms

    154 ms

    Klaviyo costs a phone 154 ms of main-thread work and 344 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.

  • Shopify adds 69 ms

    69 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 69 ms of main-thread work and 350 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    200 ms · 25 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    50 ms · 34 KiB

    34 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 70 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Server response: 10 ms

    10 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 14.8 s

    14.8 s

    Your largest element takes 14.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “GET THE EDGE SIGN UP TO BE NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW PRODUCTS, RES…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 14.9 s

    14.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 14.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.7 s

    5.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 28 ms

    28 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 28 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix81
  • Page weight: 3.5 MB in 298 requests

    3.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 298 requests on a phone: images 1.3 MB (35), scripts 1.0 MB (120) and other files 802 KiB (114). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    TI-3P_-_-100g-2.3-Open-2.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).

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (73 KiB) is 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 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.98 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.98 g of CO₂e: 117.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • 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 9796
  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

    Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious 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.

  • 13 links without text

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 97 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 52 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 9285
  • Canonical points to another host

    Your canonical URL points to beastarchery.com, not bowmarscents.com, so Google may credit that host instead.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, CollectionPage, ImageObject and Organization) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: url points at a different host (https://beastarchery.com)”.

  • 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.

  • 153 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 153 pages on bowmarscents.com and 5 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 71 characters

    Your meta description is 71 characters: “Josh Bowmar | Sarah Bowmar | Bowhunting Apparel, Products and Gear List”.

  • Title: 42 characters

    Your title is a healthy 42 characters: “Bowmar Archery | Bowhunting Apparel & Gear”.

  • 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://bowmarscents.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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 (817 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://bowmarscents.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 5 pages without a meta description

    https://bowmarscents.com/collections/all, https://bowmarscents.com/collections/crossbow-broadheads, https://bowmarscents.com/collections/titanium-broadheads, https://bowmarscents.com/collections/deer-series-apparel and https://bowmarscents.com/collections/all-broadheads 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 68 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error producing monorail event MonorailRequestError: Error completing request. A network failure may have prevented the…”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    38 of 44 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix75
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. 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 322 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 322 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SIGN UP”.

  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “SHOP ALL”, “CUT ON CONTACT TITANIUM BROADHEADS” and “QUICK ORDER FORM”.

  • 10 short forms

    10 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and TikTok 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.

  • 15 cookies set on arrival

    15

    Opening the homepage sets 15 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.

  • 27 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 27 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 bowmarscents.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 11 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Uppromote Affiliate · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Yoast Seo · Simple Bundle · Affliate By Secomapp · elfsight.com · powr.io · loox.io · gorgias.chat · cloudfront.net · 9gtb.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

Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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