gearelevation.com website review

About 1.4 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

The page has 2,673 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

13 images could be 264 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

A phone's processor spends 2.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 701 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, loox.io and Klaviyo and others), adding 317 KiB and 222 ms of main-thread time.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 131 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 91 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (46 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

7 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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.

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

The page becomes fully interactive after 7.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors wait 208 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 188 ms to 238 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

6 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example drone-knoll-flatlay_4d9f0c06-8a50-476a-b960-7ad51e17952f_150 at 1,500 px wide, shown at 175 px. Resized copies would save about 67 KiB.

4 images (144 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.52 g of CO₂e: 62.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

10 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

Elements with role="none" or role="presentation" have conflicts (2 elements).

15 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 262 pages on gearelevation.com and 10 external pages.

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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

/collections/trending-now, /collections/new-arrivals, /collections/cat-home-garden-seasonal-holiday-decorations, /collections/cat-home-garden-kitchen-tools-utensils, /collections/cat-home-garden-household-supplies and /collections/cat-home-garden-lamps and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/collections/halloween, /collections/fall-autumn-collection, /collections/trending-now, /collections/new-arrivals, /collections/summer-collection and /collections/dept-home-garden and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 114 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “$ is not defined”.

6 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

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

gearelevation.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.

gearelevation.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.

Your longest form asks for 9 fields (0 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

The homepage carries about 726 words of visible text.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager and 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.

Opening the homepage sets 5 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 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.