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foundrylighting.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202624 issues · 105 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on foundrylighting.com, 3 of them high impact, across 105 checks. The most urgent: frames without titles. 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
91A- #1,021 of 82,020 reviewed websitesbeats 98%
- #415 of 40,757 online storesbeats 98%
- #395 of 36,133 Shopify storesbeats 98%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 90 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 92 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 88 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
0.6 s
1.2 s
1.8 s
2.4 s
2.9 s
3.5 s
4.1 s
4.7 s
foundrylighting.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Mobile performance score: 88
88/100Your mobile performance score is 88. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (FontAwesome CDN, Google CDN and Shopify and others), adding 796 KiB and 879 ms of main-thread time.
FontAwesome CDN adds 611 ms
611 msFontAwesome CDN costs a phone 611 ms of main-thread work and 117 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.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
Main-thread work: 3.7 s
A phone's processor spends 3.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
2,600 HTML elements
The page has 2,600 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Google CDN adds 188 ms
188 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 188 ms of main-thread work and 299 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 71 ms
71 msShopify costs a phone 71 ms of main-thread work and 317 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 JavaScript
223 KiBAbout 223 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 159 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Improve image delivery
152 KiB7 images could be 152 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Reduce unused CSS
131 KiBAbout 131 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Use efficient cache lifetimes
47 KiB8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (47 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
7 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 7 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 6.8 s
6.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 6.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.6 s
3.6 sYour largest element takes 3.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Classic dining room with the Chapman and Myers Westerly cha…”.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 90 ms to 88 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
11 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: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 103 ms
103 msReal visitors wait 103 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.04
0.04For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.04 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 634 ms
634 msReal visitors wait 634 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 66% faster for real visitors
-66%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.6 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Speed Index: 3.0 s
3.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.0 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 159 ms
159 msScripts block the page for only 159 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
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: 0.033
0.033The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.033, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.3 MB in 267 requests
3.3 MBYour homepage downloads 3.3 MB in 267 requests on a phone: images 1.2 MB (30), other files 1.0 MB (152) and scripts 771 KiB (68). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
hero_2026-10-26_powder-malvasia_mobile.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).
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.93 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.93 g of CO₂e: 111.2 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
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 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 (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.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 142 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
517 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 517 pages on foundrylighting.com and 5 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 150 characters
Your meta description is 150 characters: “Shop designer lighting from Visual Comfort, Hudson Valley, Crystorama & more. Free shipping, price match guarantee & sh…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Foundry Lighting”.
Title: 59 characters
Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Foundry Lighting | Designer Chandeliers, Pendants & Sconces”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.foundrylighting.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, Store and WebSite.
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.foundrylighting.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
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 (3,180 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 173 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
25 small tap targets
25 of 72 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 “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
Requests the notification permission on page load
Requests the notification permission on page load.
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 (foundrylighting.com).
Valid certificate (45 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for foundrylighting.com and is valid for another 45 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://foundrylighting.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 44 links work
All 44 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 4 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
foundrylighting.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 25 years old
25 yearsfoundrylighting.com was registered in Mar 2001 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only digicert.com, globalsign.com, letsencrypt.org and pki.goog to issue certificates for foundrylighting.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Mar 2027
foundrylighting.com is registered until Mar 2027.
Content and conversion
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 map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
About 1,321 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,321 words of visible text.
8 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP THE SALE” and “SHOP THE WESTERLY”.
28 calls to action
The homepage has 28 calls to action, for example “Shop by Room & Price”, “Subscribe” and “Shop the Sale”.
4 short forms
4 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Email authentication
No SPF record
foundrylighting.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be foundrylighting.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 35/100
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
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “mail”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Ads (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.
4 cookies set on arrival
4Opening the homepage sets 4 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.
18 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 18 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 5 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
Simprosys Google Shopping Feed · Pushowl · Al Bulk Discount Manager · Social Widget · nfcube.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
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- New York
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 24 issues on foundrylighting.com, including 10 speed issues, 1 SEO issue and 2 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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