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firstaidcentral.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202622 issues · 84 checks
This review found 22 issues worth fixing on firstaidcentral.com, 4 of them high impact, across 84 checks. The most urgent: no call to action on the first screen. 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
84B- #15,525 of 87,384 reviewed websitesbeats 77%
- #9,349 of 45,077 online storesbeats 73%
- #9,030 of 40,370 Shopify storesbeats 71%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
Compare side by sideOne 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
firstaidcentral.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Improve image delivery
800 ms · 790 KiB17 images could be 790 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 800 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 85
85/100Your mobile performance score is 85. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
800 ms3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 800 ms.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
300 ms · 52 KiB7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (52 KiB).
Shopify adds 90 ms
90 msShopify costs a phone 90 ms of main-thread work and 345 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.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, JSDelivr CDN and shop.app and others), adding 559 KiB and 191 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
97 KiBAbout 97 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 84 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
24 KiBAbout 24 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
13 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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.
Minify JavaScript
3 KiB3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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Main-thread work: 1.4 s
A phone's processor spends 1.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 612 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: 4.2 s
4.2 sYour largest element takes 4.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 7.3 s
7.3 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 7.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
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.
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Speed Index: 3.3 s
3.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 20 ms
20 msScripts block the page for only 20 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.2 MB in 265 requests
3.2 MBYour homepage downloads 3.2 MB in 265 requests on a phone: images 1.6 MB (27), other files 787 KiB (108) and scripts 587 KiB (100). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
SC-CSA2S.jpg 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).
2 images below the first screen load straight away
2 images further down the page (87 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.91 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.91 g of CO₂e: 108.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
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 (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 34 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
53 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: 53 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
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“” and “”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
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.
184 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 184 pages on firstaidcentral.com and 1 external page.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 141 characters
Your meta description is 141 characters: “Shop First Aid Central for high-quality first aid kits, AEDs, and emergency supplies. Trusted nationwide for workplace …”.
Title: 58 characters
Your title is a healthy 58 characters: “First Aid Central - First Aid Kits. AEDs, CPR, & Emergency”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.firstaidcentral.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://www.firstaidcentral.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.
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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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,102 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
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 78 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Best practices
12 small tap targets
12 of 49 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'register')”.
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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.
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Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (firstaidcentral.com).
Valid certificate (33 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for firstaidcentral.com and is valid for another 33 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://firstaidcentral.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 41 links work
All 41 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 1 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
firstaidcentral.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.
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Domain is 25 years old
25 yearsfirstaidcentral.com was registered in Sep 2001 through Cloudflare, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only letsencrypt.org, pki.goog, ssl.com and digicert.com to issue certificates for firstaidcentral.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Sep 2028
firstaidcentral.com is registered until Sep 2028.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
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 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.
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 620 words of copy
The homepage carries about 620 words of visible text.
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2 calls to action
The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact”.
4 short forms
4 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be firstaidcentral.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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.
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SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:72.10.170.194 include:spf.web-dns1.com include:spf.ess.barracudanetworks.com +ip4:67.43.226.9 +ip4:6…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “zoho”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening the homepage sets 6 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.
11 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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