elielcycling.com website review

16 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

Your mobile performance score is 40. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 4.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Hotjar, rebuyengine.com and Shopify and others), adding 1.5 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

About 409 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.

Hotjar costs a phone 457 ms of main-thread work and 65 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.

12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 453 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

rebuyengine.com costs a phone 183 ms of main-thread work and 653 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.

Shopify costs a phone 168 ms of main-thread work and 347 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 1,622 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

6 images could be 130 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

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

Polyfills for old browsers add 48 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

About 46 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (28 KiB).

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.

4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

The page becomes fully interactive after 18.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 7.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Diablo Jersey Drop”.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 800 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The layout shifts by 0.253 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 1.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 87 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 296 requests on a phone: scripts 1.3 MB (109), other files 985 KiB (125) and images 748 KiB (21). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

DiabloDrop_ChromaticTidal_3000x2100_cd194bdc-5540-428b-870f- 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).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.96 g of CO₂e: 115.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Your meta description is 177 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 113 pages on elielcycling.com and 5 external pages.

Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.

https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-vests, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-jackets, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-thermal-jerseys, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-thermal-bottoms, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/socks-shoe-covers and https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/bottles-bags-more and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-base-layers and https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/womens-base-layers use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-jerseys, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-jackets, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-base-layers, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-thermal-jerseys, https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-bib-shorts and https://www.elielcycling.com/collections/mens-thermal-bottoms and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 54 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) Price Rules is not enabled for this store.”.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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 310 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 1 more (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 19 cookies, 2 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 30 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.