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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202620 issues · 70 checks

This review found 20 issues worth fixing on drinkghost.com, 4 of them high impact, across 70 checks. The most urgent: no social proof. 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
1.1 s900 msMay 23Nov 7995 ms
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.0 s
May 30, 20261.0 s
Jun 6, 20261.0 s
Jun 13, 20261.0 s
Jun 20, 20261.0 s
Jun 27, 20261.0 s
Jul 4, 20261.1 s
Jul 11, 20261.1 s
Jul 18, 20261.1 s
Jul 25, 20261.1 s
Aug 1, 20261.1 s
Aug 8, 20261.0 s
Aug 15, 2026988 ms
Aug 22, 2026969 ms
Aug 29, 2026942 ms
Sep 5, 2026927 ms
Sep 12, 2026928 ms
Sep 19, 2026934 ms
Sep 26, 2026952 ms
Oct 3, 2026977 ms
Oct 10, 2026982 ms
Oct 17, 2026992 ms
Oct 24, 2026994 ms
Oct 31, 2026996 ms
Nov 7, 2026995 ms
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
147 ms97 msMay 23Nov 7121 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026105 ms
May 30, 2026104 ms
Jun 6, 2026103 ms
Jun 13, 2026104 ms
Jun 20, 2026104 ms
Jun 27, 2026104 ms
Jul 4, 2026107 ms
Jul 11, 2026111 ms
Jul 18, 2026111 ms
Jul 25, 2026112 ms
Aug 1, 2026111 ms
Aug 8, 2026103 ms
Aug 15, 2026104 ms
Aug 22, 2026109 ms
Aug 29, 2026120 ms
Sep 5, 2026137 ms
Sep 12, 2026141 ms
Sep 19, 2026141 ms
Sep 26, 2026137 ms
Oct 3, 2026129 ms
Oct 10, 2026129 ms
Oct 17, 2026128 ms
Oct 24, 2026125 ms
Oct 31, 2026122 ms
Nov 7, 2026121 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 drinkghost.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. drinkghost.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. drinkghost.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  3. drinkghost.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  4. drinkghost.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  5. drinkghost.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  6. drinkghost.com at 3.6 s3.6 s
  7. drinkghost.com at 4.2 s4.2 s
  8. drinkghost.com at 4.8 s4.8 s

Speed

2 to fix70
  • Mobile performance score: 70

    70/100

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

  • Improve image delivery

    318 KiB

    3 images could be 318 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    250 ms · 19 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Shopify and Google Fonts and others), adding 467 KiB and 161 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 37 KiB

    About 37 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    100 ms · 8 KiB

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

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 410 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

3 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.1 s

    9.1 s

    Your largest element takes 9.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “© 2026 GHOST LLC”.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.2 s

    9.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.5 s

    5.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 16% slower for real visitors

    +16%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 105 ms to 121 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.0 s to 1.0 s 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: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Real visitors wait 0.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 86 ms

    86 ms

    Real visitors wait 86 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.01

    0.01

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.6 s

    0.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 346 ms

    346 ms

    Real visitors wait 346 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

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

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.003

    0.003

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.003, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix90
  • 2 images far larger than shown

    98 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example ameri-pop.png at 390 px wide, shown at 96 px. Resized copies would save about 98 KiB.

  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.50 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.50 g of CO₂e: 60.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 1.8 MB in 174 requests

    1.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.8 MB in 174 requests on a phone: other files 718 KiB (86), scripts 432 KiB (62) and images 389 KiB (7). That is a lean page.

  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

Accessibility

2 to fixGoogle 10098
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 6 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 37 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 39 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 37 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

3 to fixGoogle 10081
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is short (54 characters)

    Your meta description is only 54 characters: “The home of GHOST® ENERGY and GHOST® HYDRATION drinks.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 6 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 6 pages on drinkghost.com and 0 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Title: 60 characters

    Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “DRINK GHOST® - GHOST® ENERGY | GHOST® HYDRATION – DRINKGHOST”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • 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://drinkghost.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

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  • 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.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 2 pages without a meta description

    https://drinkghost.com/collections/energy and https://drinkghost.com/collections/hydration have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://drinkghost.com/products/ghost%C2%AE-protein-drink-x-yoo-hoo%C2%AE, whose canonical is https://drinkghost.com/products/ghost%c2%ae-protein-drink-x-yoo-hoo%c2%ae. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page with very little text

    https://drinkghost.com/collections/hydration 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.

  • 4 internal pages checked

    We fetched 4 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 4 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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 4 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 5 small tap targets

    5 of 9 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix58
  • 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.

  • Only about 24 words

    The homepage has only about 24 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP PROTEIN DRINKS” and “Shop Energy”.

  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “SHOP PROTEIN DRINKS”, “Shop Energy” and “Shop Hydration”.

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, 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

    11

    Opening 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.

  • 15 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 15 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 drinkghost.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

Consentmo Gdpr · Gdpr Backpack · klaviyo.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

Framework
Tailwind CSS
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

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

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