christopherguy.com website review

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Facebook, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar and others), adding 783 KiB and 614 ms of main-thread time.

Facebook costs a phone 278 ms of main-thread work and 224 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.

The page has 2,812 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 247 ms of main-thread work and 341 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 921 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

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

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

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

The first text or image appears after 7.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 2.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors wait 220 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.6 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 167 ms to 187 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.4 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 7.7 MB in 100 requests on a phone: images 6.1 MB (45), scripts 911 KiB (23) and stylesheets 473 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

15 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 28eb3865b7219edaab3914fcf9be540c.png at 600 px wide, shown at 175 px. Resized copies would save about 1.0 MB.

25 images (5.4 MB) are 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.17 g of CO₂e: 261.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

Your meta description is 188 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

The homepage links to 227 pages on christopherguy.com and 6 external pages.

There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 115 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

8 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.christopherguy.com/.

119 of 201 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://cloud.typography.com/6387776/6537972/css/fonts.css?v=1572971701' from origin 'http…”.

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

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

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

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.christopherguy.com/products/bedroom/dressing-tables/.

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.

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

christopherguy.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.

christopherguy.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.

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

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

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

The homepage carries about 518 words of visible text.

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.

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

Opening the homepage sets 15 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 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.