ghostdemocracy.com website review

22 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (979 KiB).

About 804 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.0 s faster on a phone.

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

Your mobile performance score is 34. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 6.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Facebook, Klaviyo and rebuyengine.com and others), adding 2.5 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.

Polyfills for old browsers add 105 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 550 ms faster on a phone.

Facebook costs a phone 332 ms of main-thread work and 260 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.

rebuyengine.com costs a phone 276 ms of main-thread work and 695 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.

Klaviyo costs a phone 304 ms of main-thread work and 411 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.

About 43 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 272 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

The page has 1,551 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Shopify costs a phone 30 ms of main-thread work and 547 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.

4 images could be 157 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.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

17 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

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.

3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Your largest element takes 18.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 25.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 12.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.5 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 3.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 148 ms to 154 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.5 s to 5.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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 5.9 MB in 339 requests on a phone: scripts 2.4 MB (122), images 1.8 MB (33) and other files 857 KiB (147). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.67 g of CO₂e: 200.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 element has a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

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

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

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

There are 10 <h1> headlines (“”, “” and “More than Just Skincare... Exceptionally Clean(er…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 316 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

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

The homepage links to 159 pages on ghostdemocracy.com and 5 external pages.

There is no https://www.ghostdemocracy.com/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.

https://www.ghostdemocracy.com/collections/mind-body-wellness-market has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 58 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0070/9689/3492/products/Floodgate-6-optim_400x400.jpg?v=1762531694.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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

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

The homepage carries about 521 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, 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 27 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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 49 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.