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dnksports.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202627 issues · 72 checks
This review found 27 issues worth fixing on dnksports.com, 6 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Improve image delivery
1.4 s · 454 KiB5 images could be 454 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
950 ms · 209 KiBAbout 209 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 950 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
900 ms · 170 KiB8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (170 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 65
65/100Your mobile performance score is 65. 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 (Shopify, Klaviyo and Mailchimp and others), adding 1.0 MB and 495 ms of main-thread time.
Main-thread work: 2.5 s
A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Shopify adds 197 ms
197 msShopify costs a phone 197 ms of main-thread work and 431 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.
Klaviyo adds 173 ms
173 msKlaviyo costs a phone 173 ms of main-thread work and 394 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.
Render-blocking requests
150 ms4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 93 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
40 ms · 27 KiBAbout 27 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 40 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
19 KiBPolyfills 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 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Duplicated JavaScript
2 KiB2 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
1 checks passed
Server response: 5 ms
5 msYour server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 13.9 s
13.9 sYour largest element takes 13.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 14.1 s
14.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 14.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.6 s
6.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s
2.6 sThe first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
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.
2 checks passed
Total Blocking Time: 98 ms
98 msScripts block the page for only 98 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.1 MB in 278 requests
3.1 MBYour homepage downloads 3.1 MB in 278 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (126), images 1.1 MB (12) and other files 725 KiB (97). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Untitled_design_1.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).
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.89 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.89 g of CO₂e: 106.9 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
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
4 links without text
4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
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.
1 checks passed
50 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Meta description is short (41 characters)
Your meta description is only 41 characters: “Designed from the sole up for pickleball.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.
38 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 38 pages on dnksports.com and 0 external pages.
7 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Dnk Sports”.
Title: 31 characters
Your title is a healthy 31 characters: “Game changing pickleball shoes.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://dnksports.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://dnksports.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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 (304 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://dnksports.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
https://dnksports.com/collections/bainbridge-1s-1 and https://dnksports.com/collections/bainbridge-1s all use the title “Dnk Bainbridge 1 Pickleball Shoes”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
4 pages without a meta description
https://dnksports.com/policies/refund-policy, https://dnksports.com/pages/contact, https://dnksports.com/pages/about-us and https://dnksports.com/collections/all have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages share a meta description
https://dnksports.com/collections/bainbridge-1s-1 and https://dnksports.com/collections/all-bainbridge-1s use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 page without an H1
https://dnksports.com/pages/about-us has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
https://dnksports.com/pages/contact has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
10 internal pages checked
We fetched 10 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
9 pages of 10 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 9 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: item is not defined”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
24 of 28 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
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 279 words of copy
The homepage carries about 279 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop the shoe”.
14 calls to action
The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Shop Men's”, “Shop Women's” and “Contact Us”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Klaviyo 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.
11 cookies set on arrival
11Opening the homepage sets 11 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.
19 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 19 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 dnksports.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 7 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Sami B2b Lock · Sami Wholesale · Yotpo Product Reviews · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Wholesale Lock Hide Price · Freegifts · chimpstatic.com
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
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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