focusrite.com website review

Not measured in this review.

• Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

  Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

• Real-user LCP: 3.0 s

  3.0 s

  Real visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

• Real-user INP: 202 ms

  202 ms

  Real visitors wait 202 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

• Tap response (INP) got 22% slower for real visitors

  +22%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 164 ms to 203 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Real-user FCP: 2.2 s

  2.2 s

  Real visitors see the first content after 2.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

• Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

  +6%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 3.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Page weight: 4.9 MB

  4.9 MB

  Your homepage downloads 4.9 MB on a phone, 2.2 MB of it images (45%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

  isa-c8x-homepage-1141.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).

  Elements (3)

• 4 images in older formats

  4 images (574 KiB) are 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.

  Elements (4)

• 8 images below the first screen load straight away

  8 images further down the page (523 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  Elements (5)

• 2 images far larger than shown

  110 KiB

  2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Gallery_Image_-_Rear_-_Scarlett_4i4__73230.1685463465.1280.1 at 1,280 px wide, shown at 145 px. Resized copies would save about 110 KiB.

  Elements (2)

• About 1.4 g of CO₂ per visit

  1.38 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.38 g of CO₂e: 165.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (1 element)

  Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  Elements (1)

• Unlabelled dropdowns

  1 dropdown has no label.

  Elements (1)

• Interactive controls must not be nested (8 elements)

  Interactive controls must not be nested: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  Elements (3)

• Malformed lists

  Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  Elements (3)

• Orphan list items

  Some list items are not inside a list.

  Elements (3)

• 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.

  Elements (3)

• Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)

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

  Elements (1)

• Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

  Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  Elements (1)

• 1 form field without a label

  1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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• Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (8 elements)

  Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  Elements (3)

• No structured data

  No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

• 3 H1 headlines

  There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Save up to 20% in the Black Friday Early Access S…”, “The Original. Remastered.” and “ISA has evolved”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

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• No social preview image

  No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

• No X (Twitter) card tag

  No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

• 240 internal links, 47 external

  The homepage links to 240 pages on focusrite.com and 47 external pages.

• 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.

• 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.

• 2 pages share a title

  /audio-interfaces and /categories/audio-interfaces all use the title “Audio Interfaces | Focusrite”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  Elements (2)

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 92 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 5 broken images

  5 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://thumbs.nosto.com/quick/bigcommerce-7exlzlf13h/8/114/301824da02858ca707da2e218c8f53747f965540e4aaf2ee13d2c77139d7c966/A.

• 5 JavaScript errors while loading

  5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught Error: Goaffpro is already loaded. This message prevents duplicate loading of the script. Kindly ignore.”.

• 1 broken external link

  1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://focusriteplc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Focusrite-Group-Anti-Modern-Slavery-and-Human-Trafficking-Statement-2025.pdf (404).

• No Content-Security-Policy

  No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

• 1 link through redirect chains

  1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://id.focusritegroup.com/en/my-hardware.

• 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.

• No security.txt

  There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

• No CAA record

  focusrite.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

  focusrite.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.

• Thin social proof

  Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. 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 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 786 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 786 words of visible text.

• Email authentication score: 100/100

  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.

• 9 trackers load before any consent

  9

  Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel and 4 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.

• 31 cookies set on arrival

  31

  Opening the homepage sets 31 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

• 53 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 53 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.