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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202613 issues · 73 checks

This review found 13 issues worth fixing on glassrailingstore.com, 3 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.9 s1.2 sMay 23Nov 71.8 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.4 s
May 30, 20261.4 s
Jun 6, 20261.4 s
Jun 13, 20261.4 s
Jun 20, 20261.3 s
Jun 27, 20261.3 s
Jul 4, 20261.4 s
Jul 11, 20261.4 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.4 s
Aug 1, 20261.4 s
Aug 8, 20261.4 s
Aug 15, 20261.4 s
Aug 22, 20261.5 s
Aug 29, 20261.5 s
Sep 5, 20261.6 s
Sep 12, 20261.6 s
Sep 19, 20261.6 s
Sep 26, 20261.6 s
Oct 3, 20261.7 s
Oct 10, 20261.7 s
Oct 17, 20261.7 s
Oct 24, 20261.7 s
Oct 31, 20261.7 s
Nov 7, 20261.8 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
167 ms134 msMay 23Nov 7163 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026138 ms
May 30, 2026142 ms
Jun 6, 2026144 ms
Jun 13, 2026145 ms
Jun 20, 2026144 ms
Jun 27, 2026147 ms
Jul 4, 2026148 ms
Jul 11, 2026151 ms
Jul 18, 2026152 ms
Jul 25, 2026146 ms
Aug 1, 2026149 ms
Aug 8, 2026146 ms
Aug 15, 2026150 ms
Aug 22, 2026148 ms
Aug 29, 2026146 ms
Sep 5, 2026147 ms
Sep 12, 2026146 ms
Sep 19, 2026155 ms
Sep 26, 2026161 ms
Oct 3, 2026162 ms
Oct 10, 2026161 ms
Oct 17, 2026161 ms
Oct 24, 2026159 ms
Oct 31, 2026163 ms
Nov 7, 2026163 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

Full-page screenshot of glassrailingstore.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

2 to fix96
  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

  • 2,016 HTML elements

    The page has 2,016 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    68 KiB

    4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (68 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    68 KiB

    3 images could be 68 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, shop.app and custompricecalculator.com and others), adding 388 KiB and 7 ms of main-thread time.

  • 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.

  • Forced reflow

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

3 checks passed
  • Mobile performance score: 96

    96/100

    Your mobile performance score is 96. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 0.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 51 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 19 ms

    19 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 19 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 24% slower for real visitors

    +24%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 806 ms

    806 ms

    Real visitors wait 806 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 16% slower for real visitors

    +16%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 138 ms to 163 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

9 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    Real visitors wait 1.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 162 ms

    162 ms

    Real visitors wait 162 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Your largest element renders in 2.1 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Γ”.

  • Speed Index: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 2.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Time to Interactive: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    The page is fully interactive after 2.1 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (31 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.

  • About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.27 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.27 g of CO₂e: 32.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • Page weight: 974 KiB in 98 requests

    974 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 974 KiB in 98 requests on a phone: scripts 427 KiB (38), images 221 KiB (16) and HTML 111 KiB (1). That is a lean page.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9597
  • 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.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 38 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 48 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10095
  • Meta description is long (170 characters)

    Your meta description is 170 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 114 internal links, 11 external

    The homepage links to 114 pages on glassrailingstore.com and 11 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Glass Railing Systems Designed for Projects Across the USA”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Glass Railings & Deck Railing Systems – The Glass Railing Store”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://glassrailingstore.com/en-us.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: LocalBusiness, Organization, Store 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.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://glassrailingstore.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details; logo would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,373 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

4 to fix68
  • 1 page without a title

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

  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    https://glassrailingstore.com/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

    https://glassrailingstore.com/en-us/collections/all, https://glassrailingstore.com/customer_authentication/redirect and https://glassrailingstore.com/en-us/policies/shipping-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 3 pages without an H1

    https://glassrailingstore.com/en-us/collections/all, https://glassrailingstore.com/customer_authentication/redirect and https://glassrailingstore.com/en-us/collections/glass-deck-railing have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 50 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    28 of 32 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

100
  • About 808 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 808 words of visible text.

10 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SIGN UP FOR FREE SHIPPING OVER 3000”.

  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “SIGN UP FOR FREE SHIPPING OVER 3000”, “Contact” and “Get a Plan”.

  • 8 short forms

    8 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 123 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity and PostHog.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

  • Opening hours shown

    Your opening hours are on the homepage.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • LocalBusiness structured data

    Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Privacy and tracking

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 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.

  • 4 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

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 glassrailingstore.com, 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 19 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Judge Me Reviews · Apippa Custom Price Calc · Ta Mappy Store Locator Maps · Powerful Form Builder · Inbox · Sami Wholesale · Ecomposer Builder · Forms · Order Value Booster · Essential Post Purchase Upsell · Pixiehog · goaffpro.com · luckyorange.com · cloudfront.net · hextom.com · nfcube.com · robinpro.gallery · wetracked.io · saincserv.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

Stack

Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | PostHog | Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Shopify

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

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