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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202629 issues · 77 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on creativecommunications.com, 8 of them high impact, across 77 checks. The most urgent: 5,480 HTML elements. 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 s962 msMay 23Nov 71.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.0 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.8 s
Jun 13, 20261.9 s
Jun 20, 20261.9 s
Jun 27, 20261.9 s
Jul 4, 20261.9 s
Jul 11, 20261.8 s
Jul 18, 20261.8 s
Jul 25, 20261.8 s
Aug 1, 20261.8 s
Aug 8, 20261.8 s
Aug 15, 20261.8 s
Aug 22, 20261.7 s
Aug 29, 20261.7 s
Sep 5, 20261.6 s
Sep 12, 20261.4 s
Sep 19, 20261.4 s
Sep 26, 20261.3 s
Oct 3, 20261.3 s
Oct 10, 20261.3 s
Oct 17, 20261.2 s
Oct 24, 20261.2 s
Oct 31, 20261.1 s
Nov 7, 20261.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
136 ms102 msMay 23Nov 7113 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026109 ms
May 30, 2026115 ms
Jun 6, 2026115 ms
Jun 13, 2026118 ms
Jun 20, 2026125 ms
Jun 27, 2026125 ms
Jul 4, 2026129 ms
Jul 11, 2026121 ms
Jul 18, 2026110 ms
Jul 25, 2026106 ms
Aug 1, 2026115 ms
Aug 8, 2026114 ms
Aug 15, 2026122 ms
Aug 22, 2026126 ms
Aug 29, 2026132 ms
Sep 5, 2026131 ms
Sep 12, 2026112 ms
Sep 19, 2026120 ms
Sep 26, 2026111 ms
Oct 3, 2026108 ms
Oct 10, 2026120 ms
Oct 17, 2026113 ms
Oct 24, 2026110 ms
Oct 31, 2026111 ms
Nov 7, 2026113 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 creativecommunications.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. creativecommunications.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. creativecommunications.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. creativecommunications.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. creativecommunications.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. creativecommunications.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. creativecommunications.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. creativecommunications.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  8. creativecommunications.com at 3.3 s3.3 s

Speed

6 to fix64
  • 5,480 HTML elements

    The page has 5,480 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    900 ms · 127 KiB

    8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (127 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 64

    64/100

    Your mobile performance score is 64. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    500 ms · 14 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 14 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    375 KiB

    10 images could be 375 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    300 ms · 51 KiB

    About 51 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Hubspot, Shopify and Google CDN and others), adding 296 KiB and 209 ms of main-thread time.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 80 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    8 KiB

    8 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 591 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 8 ms

    8 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 8.5 s

    8.5 s

    Your largest element takes 8.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Speed Index: 6.6 s

    6.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.5 s

    8.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.8 s

    2.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    0%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 109 ms to 113 ms 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: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 112 ms

    112 ms

    Real visitors wait 112 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: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 442 ms

    442 ms

    Real visitors wait 442 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 42% faster for real visitors

    -42%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Total Blocking Time: 68 ms

    68 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 68 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix81
  • Page weight: 2.4 MB in 198 requests

    2.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 198 requests on a phone: images 982 KiB (23), other files 757 KiB (88) and scripts 425 KiB (50). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    2026-theme-announcement_1080x1080_noText_6f418520-aa41-4627- 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).

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.67 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.67 g of CO₂e: 80.4 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

7 to fixGoogle 9292
  • 26 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 5 images without alt text

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

  • 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.

  • 3 links without text

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

  • 2 form fields without a label

    2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (3 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings should not be empty (1 element)

    Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • 51 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: 51 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 8573
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • Title is short (23 characters)

    Your title is only 23 characters: “Creative Communications”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • 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.

  • 5 links with vague text

    5 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 345 internal links, 11 external

    The homepage links to 345 pages on creativecommunications.com and 11 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization 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://creativecommunications.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://creativecommunications.com/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.

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.

  • 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 (2,386 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://creativecommunications.com/collections/advent has 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 157 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    1 page of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • 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 1 page that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getAttribute')”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    37 of 37 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 364 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 364 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • 31 calls to action

    The homepage has 31 calls to action, for example “Shop by Season”, “Shop Advent & Christmas” and “Shop Other Season”.

  • 43 short forms

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: HubSpot.

Privacy and tracking

  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 22 cookies set on arrival

    22

    Opening the homepage sets 22 cookies, 5 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 25 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner

    A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at creativecommunications.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

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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

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