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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.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of dripbrothers.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. dripbrothers.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. dripbrothers.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. dripbrothers.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. dripbrothers.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  5. dripbrothers.com at 2.1 s2.1 s
  6. dripbrothers.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  7. dripbrothers.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  8. dripbrothers.com at 3.4 s3.4 s

Speed

7 to fix65
  • Improve image delivery

    8.2 s · 1.7 MB

    5 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 KiB

    About 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

    65/100

    Your mobile performance score is 65. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    350 ms · 29 KiB

    Polyfills 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 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 350 ms.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 40 KiB

    About 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 ms

    rebuyengine.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 KiB

    5 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 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: 1.2 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 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 20.9 s

    20.9 s

    Your 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 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 21.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.5 s

    8.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The 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

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 55 ms

    55 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 55 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

4 to fix43
  • 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 MB

    1 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 MB

    Your 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 g

    By 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

7 to fixGoogle 8091
  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 9287
  • 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

1 to fix88
  • 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

3 to fix65
  • 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

Google 100100
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

3 to fix75
  • 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 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before 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

    8

    Opening 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

Rebuy Personalization Engine · rebuyengine.com · nfcube.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
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

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

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