brooksdylan.com website review

3 images could be 376 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 68. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (80 KiB).

About 67 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.

5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 200 ms.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 52 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

2 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify and shop.app), adding 130 KiB and 24 ms of main-thread time.

About 10 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 7 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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

Your largest element takes 9.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “sip slow and prosper”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 9.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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.

1 image further down the page (25 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.52 g of CO₂e: 62.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“” and “poetry collection - sip slow and prosper”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 306 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

The homepage links to 17 pages on brooksdylan.com and 5 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

/collections/all and /pages/contact have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 3 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

4 of 10 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were 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…”.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://brooksdylan.com/products/poetry-collection-sip-slow-and-prosper.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

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

brooksdylan.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.

brooksdylan.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 139 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

brooksdylan.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

Your SPF record doesn't end in -all or ~all, so it doesn't stop other servers sending as you: “v=spf1 ip4:66.96.128.0/18 include:websitewelcome.com ?all”.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.