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dripbrothers.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 November 202634 issues · 72 checks
This review found 34 issues worth fixing on dripbrothers.com, 11 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.3 s
1.7 s
2.1 s
2.5 s
2.9 s
3.4 s
Speed
Improve image delivery
8.2 s · 1.7 MB5 images could be 1.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 8.2 s faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.4 s · 228 KiBAbout 228 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 65
65/100Your mobile performance score is 65. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Legacy JavaScript
350 ms · 29 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 29 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
350 ms3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 350 ms.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 40 KiBAbout 40 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
rebuyengine.com adds 125 ms
125 msrebuyengine.com costs a phone 125 ms of main-thread work and 691 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.
7 third-party services on the page
7 third-party services load with your homepage (rebuyengine.com, Shopify and Smartlook and others), adding 950 KiB and 157 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 9 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (9 KiB).
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 101 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb 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: 1.2 s
A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 550 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 20.9 s
20.9 sYour largest element takes 20.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Time to Interactive: 21.0 s
21.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 21.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.5 s
8.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s
2.0 sThe first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
5 images without width and height
5 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
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
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 55 ms
55 msScripts block the page for only 55 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
1 image over 500 KB
IMG_1040.heic weighs 1.6 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
1 image far larger than shown
1.5 MB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example IMG_1040.heic at 4,284 px wide, shown at 350 px. Resized copies would save about 1.5 MB.
Page weight: 3.8 MB in 166 requests
3.8 MBYour homepage downloads 3.8 MB in 166 requests on a phone: images 2.0 MB (14), other files 794 KiB (95) and scripts 614 KiB (38). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
4 images below the first screen load straight away
4 images further down the page (1.7 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.08 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.08 g of CO₂e: 129.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Accessibility
17 text elements with low contrast
17 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Orphan list items
Some list items are not inside a list.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Headings should not be empty (2 elements)
Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
1 checks passed
48 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 7 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 long (209 characters)
Your meta description is 209 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
76 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 76 pages on dripbrothers.com and 7 external pages.
5 checks passed
Title: 32 characters
Your title is a healthy 32 characters: “dripbrothers.com – The Drip Bros”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://dripbrothers.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList.
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://dripbrothers.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (446 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://dripbrothers.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 linked page is broken
Your homepage links to https://dripbrothers.com/a/wishlist, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.
8 pages without a meta description
https://dripbrothers.com/collections/shop-all, https://dripbrothers.com/collections/drip-charms, https://dripbrothers.com/collections/faith-drip, https://dripbrothers.com/pages/about-us, https://dripbrothers.com/pages/custom-requests and https://dripbrothers.com/pages/contact and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
9 pages without an H1
https://dripbrothers.com/collections/shop-all, https://dripbrothers.com/collections/signature-drip, https://dripbrothers.com/collections/chain-drip, https://dripbrothers.com/collections/drip-charms, https://dripbrothers.com/collections/rope-drip and https://dripbrothers.com/collections/faith-drip and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 32 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
55 of 59 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 18 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 457 words of copy
The homepage carries about 457 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP NOW”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Shop All” and “Contact”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.
8 cookies set on arrival
8Opening the homepage sets 8 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.
14 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 14 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 dripbrothers.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
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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