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christmasdesigners.com website review
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.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
83B- #17,771 of 80,566 reviewed websitesbeats 73%
- #10,407 of 39,626 online storesbeats 67%
- #43 of 601 Magento storesbeats 91%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 146 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 142 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 135 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 121 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 117 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 127 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
christmasdesigners.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
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 KiBAbout 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
65/100Your 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 msGoogle 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 KiBAbout 495 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Improve image delivery
350 ms · 69 KiB3 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 KiB15 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 msZenDesk 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 KiBPolyfills 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 msYour server sent the HTML in 26 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 23.6 s
23.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 23.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 779 ms
779 msScripts 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 sYour 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 sThe 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 sReal 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 msReal visitors wait 142 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (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: 783 ms
783 msReal 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 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.1 MB in 142 requests
3.1 MBYour 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 gBy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 yearschristmasdesigners.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
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
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
9 trackers load before any consent
9Before 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
31Opening 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.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2025.
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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