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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 22 October 202638 issues · 110 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on christmasdesigners.com, 11 of them high impact, across 110 checks. The most urgent: main-thread work: 4.9 s. 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
2.0 s1.7 sMay 2Oct 171.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 2, 20261.8 s
May 9, 20261.9 s
May 16, 20261.8 s
May 23, 20261.8 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.8 s
Jun 13, 20261.9 s
Jun 20, 20261.9 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20261.9 s
Jul 11, 20261.9 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20261.9 s
Aug 1, 20261.8 s
Aug 8, 20261.8 s
Aug 15, 20261.9 s
Aug 22, 20261.8 s
Aug 29, 20261.8 s
Sep 5, 20261.8 s
Sep 12, 20261.7 s
Sep 19, 20261.8 s
Sep 26, 20261.9 s
Oct 3, 20261.9 s
Oct 10, 20261.9 s
Oct 17, 20261.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
150 ms113 msMay 2Oct 17127 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 2, 2026146 ms
May 9, 2026142 ms
May 16, 2026135 ms
May 23, 2026121 ms
May 30, 2026119 ms
Jun 6, 2026120 ms
Jun 13, 2026120 ms
Jun 20, 2026126 ms
Jun 27, 2026127 ms
Jul 4, 2026120 ms
Jul 11, 2026121 ms
Jul 18, 2026117 ms
Jul 25, 2026121 ms
Aug 1, 2026121 ms
Aug 8, 2026128 ms
Aug 15, 2026137 ms
Aug 22, 2026131 ms
Aug 29, 2026129 ms
Sep 5, 2026124 ms
Sep 12, 2026122 ms
Sep 19, 2026121 ms
Sep 26, 2026124 ms
Oct 3, 2026127 ms
Oct 10, 2026125 ms
Oct 17, 2026127 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

Full-page screenshot of christmasdesigners.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

christmasdesigners.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

10 to fix65
  • Main-thread work: 4.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, ZenDesk and Facebook and others), adding 1.4 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    900 ms · 217 KiB

    About 217 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 65

    65/100

    Your mobile performance score is 65 (desktop: 70). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 482 ms

    482 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 482 ms of main-thread work and 542 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.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    495 KiB

    About 495 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Improve image delivery

    350 ms · 69 KiB

    3 images could be 69 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    303 KiB

    15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (303 KiB).

  • 2,643 HTML elements

    The page has 2,643 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • ZenDesk adds 190 ms

    190 ms

    ZenDesk costs a phone 190 ms of main-thread work and 413 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.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 248 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    23 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 23 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.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 26 ms

    26 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 26 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Time to Interactive: 23.6 s

    23.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 23.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 779 ms

    779 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 779 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 4.1 s

    4.1 s

    Your largest element takes 4.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 10 images without width and height

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

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    0%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

9 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: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 142 ms

    142 ms

    Real visitors wait 142 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 783 ms

    783 ms

    Real visitors wait 783 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 12% faster for real visitors

    -12%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 146 ms to 127 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Speed Index: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 3.1 MB in 142 requests

    3.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.1 MB in 142 requests on a phone: scripts 2.1 MB (47), fonts 329 KiB (9) and images 270 KiB (27). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.89 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.89 g of CO₂e: 107.0 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

9 to fixGoogle 8289
  • Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (2 elements)

    Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (6 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • 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.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 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.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (25 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 25 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • 1 form field without a label

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 246 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 53 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 61 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 passed and 8 failed. 6 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 10081
  • Title is long (67 characters)

    Your title is 67 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Christmas Lights | LED Lights, Trees, & Decor | Christmas Designers”.

  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Christmas Designers” and “Commercial Christmas Lights for Home & Business”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 239 internal links, 18 external

    The homepage links to 239 pages on christmasdesigners.com and 18 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “Shop Christmas lights and decor designed for professional-grade home and commercial designs. LED, C7/C9s, and more. Cre…”.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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.christmasdesigners.com/media/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: 6 of 6 facts

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,137 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (24 KiB, 141 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 1 page without a meta description

    /guestwishlist has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /christmas-lights/led-christmas-lights/pro-christmas-rgb-animated-lights.html, whose canonical is /christmas-lights/led-christmas-lights/5mm-wide-angle-conical-led-lights/pro-christmas-rgb-lights.html. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 159 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 7376
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=5711781&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=ed7c1d55-ddad-451e-83e7-8468604bcba4&bo=1&sid=32de5dc0cdce11f1ac28bdb02ad682a7&vid=32de8fa0cdce11f1bd2137ad68f877ab&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918.

  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Loading the script 'https://js.cnnx.link/roi/cnxtag-min.js?id=315764' violates the following Content Security Policy di…”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    73 of 74 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • 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.

8 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (83 days left)

    The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for christmasdesigners.com and is valid for another 83 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.

  • HSTS enabled

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

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

  • All 53 links work

    All 53 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 13 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    christmasdesigners.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.

3 checks passed
  • Domain is 29 years old

    29 years

    christmasdesigners.com was registered in Jun 1997 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • DNSSEC is on

    christmasdesigners.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.

  • Registered until Jun 2028

    christmasdesigners.com is registered until Jun 2028.

Content and conversion

3 to fix78
  • 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.

  • 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: 24 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 1,393 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,393 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • 12 calls to action

    The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “SHOP ALL SALES”, “SHOP BY CATEGORY” and “SHOP ALL CHRISTMAS LIGHTS”.

  • 11 short forms

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • 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

85
  • Email authentication score: 85/100

    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: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine 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 ip4:24.116.161.66 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.psm.knowbe4.com ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 9 trackers load before any consent

    9

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Criteo, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight and 4 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.

  • 31 cookies set on arrival

    31

    Opening the homepage sets 31 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.

  • 34 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 34 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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