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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202631 issues · 98 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on fye.com, 8 of them high impact, across 98 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
85B- #10,704 of 81,731 reviewed websitesbeats 83%
- #6,091 of 40,534 online storesbeats 80%
- #5,881 of 35,914 Shopify storesbeats 78%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 95 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 94 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 92 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
fye.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.2 s · 244 KiBAbout 244 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.
3,595 HTML elements
The page has 3,595 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Reduce unused CSS
870 ms · 133 KiBAbout 133 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 870 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 71
71/100Your mobile performance score is 71. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
900 ms13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 284 KiB16 images could be 284 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Shopify adds 13 ms
13 msShopify costs a phone 13 ms of main-thread work and 505 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.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 19 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
7 third-party services on the page
7 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Shopify and usablenet.com and others), adding 708 KiB and 81 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
20 KiB9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (20 KiB).
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.
Minify JavaScript
3 KiB3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Minify CSS
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.1 s
A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 351 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 8 ms
8 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 9.7 s
9.7 sYour largest element takes 9.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Funké logo on a blue background with abstract designs”.
Time to Interactive: 9.7 s
9.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 9.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 4.5 s
4.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s
2.0 sThe first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
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 95 ms to 92 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 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: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 128 ms
128 msReal visitors wait 128 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (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: 623 ms
623 msReal visitors wait 623 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.7 MB in 243 requests
2.7 MBYour homepage downloads 2.7 MB in 243 requests on a phone: images 984 KiB (35), scripts 723 KiB (89) and other files 687 KiB (80). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
s-l1600_8bba905c-2390-47d0-88e5-62c62fb31f3e.webp 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).
3 images in older formats
3 images (490 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.
About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.78 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.78 g of CO₂e: 93.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
35 text elements with low contrast
35 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Positive tabindex
1 element has a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.
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 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 61 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (68 characters)
Your title is 68 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “FYE – Your Destination for Pop Culture, Collectibles & Entertainment”.
Meta description is long (234 characters)
Your meta description is 234 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.fye.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
525 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 525 pages on fye.com and 11 external pages.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.fye.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization 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.
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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,854 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a title
/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
3 pages without a meta description
/collections/all, /customer_authentication/redirect and /policies/shipping-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
4 pages slow to respond
/collections/all, /customer_authentication/redirect, /collections/best-selling-products and /policies/shipping-policy took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 157 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
3 checks passed
Linked pages load
4 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.
Best practices
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
32 of 32 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.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.fye.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en®ion_country=US.
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 (fye.com).
Valid certificate (67 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for fye.com and is valid for another 67 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://fye.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 46 links work
All 46 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 6 external) answered without errors; 4 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
fye.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 30 years old
30 yearsfye.com was registered in Jul 1996 through Network Solutions, LLC. 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 fye.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Jul 2027
fye.com is registered until Jul 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.
Phone number is not tap-to-call
Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.
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 570 words of copy
The homepage carries about 570 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 Funko” and “Shop Horror”.
13 calls to action
The homepage has 13 calls to action, for example “Shop By Format”, “Shop Funko” and “Shop Horror”.
3 short forms
3 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 fye.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
SPF does not block other senders (?all)
Your SPF record doesn't end in -all or ~all, so it doesn't stop other servers sending as you: “v=spf1 ip4:12.14.18.107 include:_spf.google.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mail.zendesk.com ?all”.
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
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “k1” and “mandrill”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Klaviyo (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.
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 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.
12 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 12 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
Seowill Redirects · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Forms · chimpstatic.com · googleapis.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
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Hiring
- Hiring
- 4 open roles
- Job board
- careers page
- Careers page
- www.fye.com/pages/careers (opens in a new tab)
Company
- Founded
- 1993
- Headquarters
- Albany
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 31 issues on fye.com, including 11 speed issues, 4 SEO issues 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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