daviddonahue.com website review

16 images could be 1.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.4 s faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 4.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, ContentSquare and Accessibe Accessibility Overlay and others), adding 1.4 MB and 1.0 s of main-thread time.

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

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.

About 96 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 costs a phone 298 ms of main-thread work and 361 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 2,042 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Shopify costs a phone 113 ms of main-thread work and 301 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.

14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (241 KiB).

8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 209 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 43 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

14 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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

3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Your largest element takes 12.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 27.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 287 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 129 ms to 144 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 19.0 MB in 239 requests on a phone: media 13.1 MB (1), images 3.0 MB (28) and scripts 1.8 MB (92). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

8 images further down the page (759 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

3 images (208 KiB) 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 5.39 g of CO₂e: 646.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 20 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is 236 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

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

The homepage links to 148 pages on daviddonahue.com and 7 external pages.

There is no https://www.daviddonahue.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.

Your homepage links to https://www.daviddonahue.com/collections/all, https://www.daviddonahue.com/collections/all-shirts and https://www.daviddonahue.com/collections/holiday-2026, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

https://www.daviddonahue.com/collections/signature-silk has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 66 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=26044844&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=80c0e6fa-da32-48fe-ba6a-54a12c4fb48b&bo=1&sid=5bd6cd80dddc11f1ac21ab29451fc869&vid=5bd6eee0dddc11f1a54a6955230e3af0&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

Social proof on the homepage: 20 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

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 460 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 3 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.

Opening the homepage sets 25 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (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 50 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.