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foambrain.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202637 issues · 106 checks
This review found 37 issues worth fixing on foambrain.com, 8 of them high impact, across 106 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 44.0 MB in 392 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
86B- #8,009 of 83,515 reviewed websitesbeats 87%
- #4,430 of 41,932 online storesbeats 85%
- #4,272 of 37,290 Shopify storesbeats 84%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 117 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 107 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 107 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 108 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 95 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
0.9 s
1.8 s
2.8 s
3.7 s
4.6 s
5.5 s
6.5 s
7.4 s
foambrain.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
7,798 HTML elements
The page has 7,798 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Main-thread work: 5.1 s
A phone's processor spends 5.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Improve image delivery
350 ms · 1.4 MB27 images could be 1.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 73
73/100Your mobile performance score is 73. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
7 third-party services on the page
7 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Snapchat and 506.io and others), adding 1.2 MB and 775 ms of main-thread time.
Render-blocking requests
900 ms5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.
Shopify adds 516 ms
516 msShopify costs a phone 516 ms of main-thread work and 923 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.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 80 KiBAbout 80 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.
Reduce unused JavaScript
323 KiBAbout 323 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
9 long tasks on the main thread
9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 117 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
67 KiB12 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (67 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
40 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 40 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Duplicated JavaScript
28 KiB28 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
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 CSS
3 KiB3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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
Time to Interactive: 12.7 s
12.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 12.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.6 s
5.6 sYour largest element takes 5.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Dungeon Crawler Series 2 Complete Set Enamel Pin Foam Brain…”.
Speed Index: 3.9 s
3.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 214 ms
214 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 214 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
9 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 93 ms
93 msReal visitors wait 93 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.01
0.01For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 534 ms
534 msReal visitors wait 534 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 17% faster for real visitors
-17%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 117 ms to 95 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.076
0.076The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.076, good is under 0.1).
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: 44.0 MB in 392 requests
44.0 MBYour homepage downloads 44.0 MB in 392 requests on a phone: media 38.2 MB (8), images 3.3 MB (48) and scripts 1.1 MB (172). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Lifestyle_-_Plastics_2.png 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).
1 image far larger than shown
10 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Enamel_Pins_3.jpg at 390 px wide, shown at 119 px. Resized copies would save about 10 KiB.
1 image in older formats
1 image (83 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
About 12.5 g of CO₂ per visit
12.48 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 12.48 g of CO₂e: 1498.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
3 tap targets too small
3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
8 images without alt text
8 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (7 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (3 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 form fields without a label
2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 9 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (69 characters)
Your title is 69 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Foam Brain Games - Plastic and Metal RPG Dice, Enamel Pins, and more!”.
3 H1 headlines
There are 3 <h1> headlines (“”, “BRAND NEW: DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL SERIES 2!” and “Make Your Next Game a Critical Hit”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
Meta description is long (260 characters)
Your meta description is 260 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.
258 internal links, 6 external
The homepage links to 258 pages on foambrain.com and 6 external pages.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.foambrain.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization and WebSite.
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.foambrain.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.
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.
Organization data: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,817 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
7 pages without a meta description
/collections/new-releases, /collections/trending-products, /collections/exclusive-products, /collections/pride, /collections/staff-picks and /collections/foam-brain-plastic-dice and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
7 pages without an H1
/collections/new-releases, /collections/trending-products, /collections/exclusive-products, /collections/pride, /collections/staff-picks and /collections/foam-brain-plastic-dice and 1 other have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
2 pages with very little text
/collections/trending-products and /collections/sharp-edged-dice have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 111 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
7 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
177 of 186 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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 (foambrain.com).
Valid certificate (46 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for foambrain.com and is valid for another 46 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://foambrain.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 42 links work
All 42 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 2 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
foambrain.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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 22 years old
22 yearsfoambrain.com was registered in Oct 2004 through NameCheap, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only pki.goog, ssl.com, digicert.com and globalsign.com to issue certificates for foambrain.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Oct 2027
foambrain.com is registered until Oct 2027.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 4 trust badges. 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 1,135 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,135 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” and “Shop by Popular Categories”.
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Shop by Popular Categories” and “Contact Us”.
96 short forms
96 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 95/100
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net include:mailgun.org ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “dkim”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 3 mores (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.
18 cookies set on arrival
18Opening the homepage sets 18 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
26 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 26 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 6 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
Judge Me Reviews · Eg Auto Add To Cart · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Optis Product Options · Restockrocket · snapchat.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
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- Troy
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
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