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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202627 issues · 93 checks

This review found 27 issues worth fixing on craftirl.com, 8 of them high impact, across 93 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 5.3 MB in 470 requests. 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

Full-page screenshot of craftirl.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. craftirl.com at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. craftirl.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  3. craftirl.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  4. craftirl.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  5. craftirl.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  6. craftirl.com at 4.0 s4.0 s
  7. craftirl.com at 4.7 s4.7 s
  8. craftirl.com at 5.3 s5.3 s

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

Speed

9 to fix70
  • 3,985 HTML elements

    The page has 3,985 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Improve image delivery

    800 ms · 960 KiB

    48 images could be 960 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 800 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 70

    70/100

    Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Shopify and nfcube.com and others), adding 1.8 MB and 388 ms of main-thread time.

  • Main-thread work: 4.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    382 KiB

    About 382 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Render-blocking requests

    350 ms

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 350 ms.

  • Shopify adds 178 ms

    178 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 178 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB 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.

  • Google CDN adds 186 ms

    186 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 186 ms of main-thread work and 298 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.

  • 5 long tasks on the main thread

    5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 178 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    55 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (55 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    34 KiB

    About 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    10 KiB

    10 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • 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: 10 ms

    10 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix64
  • Time to Interactive: 20.3 s

    20.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 20.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.2 s

    7.2 s

    Your largest element takes 7.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Speed Index: 4.2 s

    4.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 233 ms

    233 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 233 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix69
  • Page weight: 5.3 MB in 470 requests

    5.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.3 MB in 470 requests on a phone: images 2.5 MB (86), scripts 1.1 MB (152) and other files 1.1 MB (169). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    website_banner_4.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 8 images below the first screen load straight away

    8 images further down the page (232 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.49 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.49 g of CO₂e: 179.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 9295
  • 42 text elements with low contrast

    42 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)

    Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 78 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 52 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 4 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 10095
  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 186 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 186 pages on craftirl.com and 4 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 145 characters

    Your meta description is 145 characters: “Discover handcrafted, 3D printed planters, headphone accessories, and cute gifts at CraftIRL — made with care to add ch…”.

  • Title: 57 characters

    Your title is a healthy 57 characters: “Craft IRL | Whimsical 3D Printed Home Decor & Accessories”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • 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://craftirl.com/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: 4 of 6 facts

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,276 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

1 to fix95
  • 10 pages without a meta description

    /collections/all-products, /collections/art-deco, /collections/book-lovers, /collections/for-anime-fans, /collections/gothic and /collections/fitness-and-gym and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 87 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 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.

  • 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

Google 96100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    87 of 90 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.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://instagram.com/craftirl.

  • 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.

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (72 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for craftirl.com and is valid for another 72 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://craftirl.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 43 links work

    All 43 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 3 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    craftirl.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

    craftirl.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 3 years old

    3 years

    craftirl.com was registered in Feb 2023 through Squarespace Domains LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Feb 2027

    craftirl.com is registered until Feb 2027.

Content and conversion

2 to fix83
  • No analytics detected

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

  • No direct contact details

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

  • 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 1,540 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,540 words of visible text.

  • Urgency cues

    The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP PLANTER”.

  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “SHOP”, “Shop ALL” and “SHOP PLANTER”.

  • 15 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block, a star rating and 1 trust badge.

Email authentication

3 to fix0
  • No DMARC policy

    craftirl.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.

  • No SPF record

    craftirl.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    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 score: 0/100

    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.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

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

  • 12 cookies set on arrival

    12

    Opening the homepage sets 12 cookies (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.

  • 26 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 26 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 4 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

Judge Me Reviews · Google Youtube · King Product Options · Forms

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
Hosting
Shopify

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

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