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equelle.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202633 issues · 103 checks
This review found 33 issues worth fixing on equelle.com, 7 of them high impact, across 103 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
Site score
83B- #18,438 of 82,907 reviewed websitesbeats 73%
- #10,959 of 41,455 online storesbeats 67%
- #10,546 of 36,819 Shopify storesbeats 65%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 184 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 176 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 174 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 175 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 175 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 172 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 176 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 173 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 156 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 154 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
equelle.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 49
49/100Your mobile performance score is 49. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Reduce unused JavaScript
310 ms · 512 KiBAbout 512 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Accessibe Accessibility Overlay and Optanon and others), adding 1.7 MB and 552 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 93 KiBAbout 93 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.
Main-thread work: 2.8 s
A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Klaviyo adds 196 ms
196 msKlaviyo costs a phone 196 ms of main-thread work and 616 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 adds 19 ms
19 msShopify costs a phone 19 ms of main-thread work and 377 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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 125 KiB15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (125 KiB).
Font display
150 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).
5 long tasks on the main thread
5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 118 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
27 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 27 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Improve image delivery
22 KiB1 image could be 22 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Minify CSS
6 KiB6 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 18 ms
18 msYour server sent the HTML in 18 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Time to Interactive: 15.6 s
15.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.5 s
6.5 sYour largest element takes 6.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Multi-symptom menopause relief. Guaranteed. Equelle is a re…”.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.618
0.618The layout shifts by 0.618 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 821 ms
821 msReal visitors wait 821 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Speed Index: 4.8 s
4.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 175 ms
175 msReal visitors wait 175 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.06
0.06For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.06 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 14% faster for real visitors
-14%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 184 ms to 154 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Total Blocking Time: 166 ms
166 msScripts block the page for only 166 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.4 MB in 160 requests
2.4 MBYour homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 160 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (87), fonts 421 KiB (12) and images 281 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.69 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.69 g of CO₂e: 83.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
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.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 14 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
46 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 1 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: missing name”.
3 links with vague text
3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
55 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 55 pages on equelle.com and 5 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 149 characters
Your meta description is 149 characters: “Get relief from hot flashes & menopause symptoms without a prescription. Subscribe to monthly delivery & save 20% on yo…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Multi-symptom menopause relief. Guaranteed.”.
Title: 62 characters
Your title is a healthy 62 characters: “Equelle S-equol Menopause Supplement & Over The Counter Relief”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://equelle.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://equelle.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 (1,024 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a title
/pages/healthcare-professionals has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
2 pages share a title
/a/faqs and /tools/recurring/get-subscription-access all use the title “Equelle”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
3 pages without a meta description
/a/faqs, /pages/healthcare-professionals and /tools/recurring/get-subscription-access 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 /pages/contact-us, whose canonical is /pages/contact-form. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
2 pages without an H1
/pages/equelle-quiz and /pages/healthcare-professionals have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page slow to respond
/pages/contact-us took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
2 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Best practices
3 small tap targets
3 of 11 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (equelle.com).
Valid certificate (49 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for equelle.com and is valid for another 49 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://equelle.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 32 links work
All 32 links checked from your homepage (27 internal, 5 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
equelle.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.
DNSSEC is off
equelle.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.
2 checks passed
Domain is 26 years old
26 yearsequelle.com was registered in Jun 2000 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jun 2027
equelle.com is registered until Jun 2027.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 10 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
About 1,017 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,017 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Try Today” and “Shop now”.
16 calls to action
The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Try Today” and “Contact Us”.
1 short form
A short form (0 fields at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be equelle.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.
Email authentication score: 60/100
Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.
1 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:dc-aa8e722993._spfm.equelle.com include:mailgun.org ~all”.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Criteo, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
17 cookies set on arrival
17Opening the homepage sets 17 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
37 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 37 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 10 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.
Apps your storefront loads
Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Visually A B Testing Cro · Triplewhale · Product Ads By Criteo · Pushowl · rechargecdn.com · cloudfront.net · octaneai.com · 9gtb.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
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Framework
- Tailwind CSS
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Shopify
Hiring
- Hiring
- 6 open roles
- Job board
- careers page
Company
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 33 issues on equelle.com, including 14 speed issues, 3 SEO issues and 4 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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