gastonduflos.com website review

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

The page has 3,257 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Your mobile performance score is 78. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 177 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

Shopify costs a phone 227 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 981 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Klaviyo costs a phone 152 ms of main-thread work and 328 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.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Klaviyo and nfcube.com and others), adding 936 KiB and 392 ms of main-thread time.

About 41 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (23 KiB).

1 image could be 13 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.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 144 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Your largest element takes 5.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 3.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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.

Your homepage downloads 2.5 MB in 386 requests on a phone: other files 1.1 MB (181), scripts 999 KiB (177) and images 127 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image (76 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.70 g of CO₂e: 84.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is 164 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 21 pages on gastonduflos.com and 4 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

https://gastonduflos.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

https://gastonduflos.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://gastonduflos.com/policies/privacy-policy, https://gastonduflos.com/policies/contact-information, https://gastonduflos.com/policies/refund-policy, https://gastonduflos.com/policies/terms-of-service, https://gastonduflos.com/policies/shipping-policy and https://gastonduflos.com/customer_authentication/redirect and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://gastonduflos.com/products/custom-pet-portrait, https://gastonduflos.com/pages/works-freelance-artist, https://gastonduflos.com/pages/about-sydney-freelance-illustrator, https://gastonduflos.com/pages/contact, https://gastonduflos.com/policies/privacy-policy and https://gastonduflos.com/policies/contact-information and 6 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://gastonduflos.com/.

3 of 10 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://cdn.xotiny.com/assets/shop/5f6445-2/gallery/main.min.css?v=1793523389562' from ori…”.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 74 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel (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.

Opening the homepage sets 12 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 21 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.