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generics.co.nz website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202621 issues · 68 checks

This review found 21 issues worth fixing on generics.co.nz, 4 of them high impact, across 68 checks. The most urgent: 2 linked pages are broken. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of generics.co.nz (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. generics.co.nz at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. generics.co.nz at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. generics.co.nz at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. generics.co.nz at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. generics.co.nz at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. generics.co.nz at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. generics.co.nz at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. generics.co.nz at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

2 to fix89
  • Mobile performance score: 89

    89/100

    Your mobile performance score is 89. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Font display

    500 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 500 ms).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    290 ms · 79 KiB

    About 79 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 290 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    200 ms · 6 KiB

    1 image could be 6 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 18 KiB

    About 18 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    150 ms

    1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, jQuery CDN and carecart.io and others), adding 253 KiB and 115 ms of main-thread time.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 70 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    13 KiB

    3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (13 KiB).

  • Minify JavaScript

    10 KiB

    10 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 387 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

2 to fix85
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.8 s

    3.8 s

    Your largest element takes 3.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Est 2011 Open 7 days a week 09 2620 909”.

  • Time to Interactive: 3.8 s

    3.8 s

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

4 checks passed
  • Speed Index: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 2.2 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 10 ms

    10 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 10 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.38 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.38 g of CO₂e: 45.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed
  • Page weight: 1.3 MB in 130 requests

    1.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.3 MB in 130 requests on a phone: other files 729 KiB (81), scripts 330 KiB (33) and images 187 KiB (8). That is a lean page.

  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 8895
  • <dt> and <dd> elements must be contained by a <dl> (4 elements)

    <dt> and <dd> elements must be contained by a <dl>: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • <dl> elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements (2 elements)

    <dl> elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 24 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 45 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

5 to fixGoogle 10083
  • Canonical points to another host

    Your canonical URL points to thechemist.nz, not generics.co.nz, so Google may credit that host instead.

  • Meta description is long (284 characters)

    Your meta description is 284 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: url points at a different host (https://thechemist.nz)”.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • 45 internal links, 3 external

    The homepage links to 45 pages on generics.co.nz and 3 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Generics.co.nz”.

  • Title: 42 characters

    Your title is a healthy 42 characters: “Home of generic medicines – Generics.co.nz”.

  • 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://generics.co.nz/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, 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.

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 (689 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://generics.co.nz/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix70
  • 2 linked pages are broken

    Your homepage links to https://generics.co.nz/pages/prescription-meds and https://generics.co.nz/pages/wegovy, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://generics.co.nz/collections/all has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 3 pages with very little text

    https://generics.co.nz/pages/contact-us, https://generics.co.nz/pages/passport-photos and https://generics.co.nz/pages/services have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 33 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • 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.

  • 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 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    18 of 20 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix58
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • 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 analytics detected

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

  • 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 373 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 373 words of visible text.

2 checks passed
  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact us”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

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

  • 8 cookies set on arrival

    8

    Opening the homepage sets 8 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.

  • 15 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at generics.co.nz, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 1 app. It is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

carecart.io

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

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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