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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202634 issues · 103 checks

This review found 34 issues worth fixing on circulon.com, 12 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
2.1 s1.5 sMay 23Nov 71.7 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.6 s
May 30, 20261.6 s
Jun 6, 20261.6 s
Jun 13, 20261.7 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.9 s
Jul 4, 20262.0 s
Jul 11, 20262.0 s
Jul 18, 20262.0 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20262.0 s
Aug 8, 20262.0 s
Aug 15, 20262.0 s
Aug 22, 20262.0 s
Aug 29, 20261.9 s
Sep 5, 20261.8 s
Sep 12, 20261.8 s
Sep 19, 20261.8 s
Sep 26, 20261.7 s
Oct 3, 20261.7 s
Oct 10, 20261.7 s
Oct 17, 20261.7 s
Oct 24, 20261.7 s
Oct 31, 20261.7 s
Nov 7, 20261.7 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
199 ms167 msMay 23Nov 7185 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026175 ms
May 30, 2026171 ms
Jun 6, 2026179 ms
Jun 13, 2026180 ms
Jun 20, 2026181 ms
Jun 27, 2026187 ms
Jul 4, 2026187 ms
Jul 11, 2026185 ms
Jul 18, 2026181 ms
Jul 25, 2026180 ms
Aug 1, 2026178 ms
Aug 8, 2026180 ms
Aug 15, 2026182 ms
Aug 22, 2026186 ms
Aug 29, 2026189 ms
Sep 5, 2026189 ms
Sep 12, 2026194 ms
Sep 19, 2026195 ms
Sep 26, 2026195 ms
Oct 3, 2026195 ms
Oct 10, 2026191 ms
Oct 17, 2026188 ms
Oct 24, 2026188 ms
Oct 31, 2026188 ms
Nov 7, 2026185 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 circulon.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

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

Speed

9 to fix67
  • Main-thread work: 4.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 3,763 HTML elements

    The page has 3,763 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 67

    67/100

    Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    250 ms · 702 KiB

    17 images could be 702 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and Klaviyo and others), adding 907 KiB and 750 ms of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

    8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 76 KiB

    About 76 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 298 ms

    298 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 298 ms of main-thread work and 359 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

    303 KiB

    About 303 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 217 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    69 KiB

    11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (69 KiB).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    19 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 19 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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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

8 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 13.1 s

    13.1 s

    Your largest element takes 13.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 24.1 s

    24.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 24.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 819 ms

    819 ms

    Real visitors wait 819 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Speed Index: 4.6 s

    4.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.6 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.

  • Total Blocking Time: 220 ms

    220 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 220 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +8%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 175 ms to 185 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Real visitors wait 2.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 191 ms

    191 ms

    Real visitors wait 191 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.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix63
  • Page weight: 7.1 MB in 424 requests

    7.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 7.1 MB in 424 requests on a phone: images 4.6 MB (74), scripts 1.3 MB (171) and other files 911 KiB (160). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 6 images below the first screen load straight away

    6 images further down the page (395 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 2.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.00 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.00 g of CO₂e: 240.3 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 use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8290
  • 32 tap targets too small

    32 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Hidden but focusable

    18 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (5 elements)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 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.

  • 9 images without alt text

    9 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (15 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 15 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 19 links without text

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

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • 51 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 7 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 9297
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 262 internal links, 8 external

    The homepage links to 262 pages on circulon.com and 8 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 152 characters

    Your meta description is 152 characters: “Not all cookware and bakeware are created equal. Circulon nonstick cookware and bakeware offers high performance, durab…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Circulon”.

  • Title: 53 characters

    Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “Premium Cookware & Bakeware for Home Chefs | Circulon”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://circulon.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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://circulon.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

3 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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,693 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

3 to fix86
  • 2 pages share a title

    /pages/circulon-ceramic-with-laserdefense and /collections/circulon-ceramic-with-laserdefense all use the title “Circulon Ceramic with LaserDefense™”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    /pages/circulon-ceramic-with-laserdefense and /collections/circulon-ceramic-with-laserdefense use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 15 pages without an H1

    /pages/circulon-ceramic-with-laserdefense, /collections/a1-series, /collections/scratchdefense-clad-cookware, /collections/infinity-pan, /collections/circulon-ceramic-with-laserdefense and /collections/high-performance-nonstick-cookware and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 74 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.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9678
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=56263687&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=2bf420b5-1e9a-4f84-8da1-c10a9e07d798&bo=1&sid=91503ea0dbfa11f1be76b1bcd6386267&vid=91503d20dbfa11f1a27b7f8edd107d39&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

    6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught Bazaarvoice is not configured for the domain circulon.com.”.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    31 of 31 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

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

  • 3 links through redirect chains

    3 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://circulon.com/account.

  • 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.

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  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (47 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for circulon.com and is valid for another 47 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.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 46 links work

    All 46 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 6 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    circulon.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.

  • DNSSEC is off

    circulon.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.

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  • Domain is 28 years old

    28 years

    circulon.com was registered in Jun 1998 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jun 2034

    circulon.com is registered until Jun 2034.

Content and conversion

100
  • About 482 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 482 words of visible text.

7 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop Now”.

  • 73 calls to action

    The homepage has 73 calls to action, for example “Shop by Feature”, “Shop By Category” and “Shop All Cookware”.

  • 9 short forms

    9 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 360 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.

  • Direct contact links

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

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be circulon.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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.

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  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:ifxw9s5r8j.spf.app.powerdeliverability.email -all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “s1”, “s2” and “default”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 11 trackers load before any consent

    11

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo and 6 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Ketch) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 38 cookies set on arrival

    38

    Opening the homepage sets 38 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 61 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 61 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Ketch

    A consent management tool (Ketch) loads with the page.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 12 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.

Apps your storefront loads

Intelligems A B Testing · Yotpo Product Reviews · Elevar Conversion Tracking · Postscript Sms Marketing · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Microsoft Clarity · Test Sms · Deliverr Fast Tags · Aspire App · bazaarvoice.com · nofraud.com · botnot.io

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

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
Fairfield

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

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