gleecustom.com website review

8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (214 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 165 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 820 ms faster on a phone.

21 images could be 576 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

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

The page has 2,173 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Facebook, Shopify and Google CDN and others), adding 477 KiB and 343 ms of main-thread time.

Polyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. 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 141 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 12 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Your largest element takes 8.5 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 8.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

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 2.2 MB in 215 requests on a phone: other files 780 KiB (106), images 771 KiB (32) and scripts 543 KiB (47). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image further down the page (36 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.63 g of CO₂e: 75.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 10 characters: “GleeCustom”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 72 pages on gleecustom.com and 10 external pages.

/collections/hot-sale, /collections/valentines-day-sweatshirt, /collections/pet-embroidery and /collections/mama-sweatshirt have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/products/custom-pet-portrait-sweatshirt, /products/personalized-embroidered-pet-face-and-name-sweatshirt, /products/custom-embroidered-pet-from-your-photo, /products/personalized-embroidered-pet-face-sweatshirt, /products/custom-pet-portrait-sweatshirt-1 and /products/custom-embroidered-line-drawing-crewneck-hoodie use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /products/50-off%F0%9F%94%A5personalized-roman-numeral-date-embroidered-hoodie-crewneck, whose canonical is /products/50-off%f0%9f%94%a5personalized-roman-numeral-date-embroidered-hoodie-crewneck. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/products/custom-pet-portrait-sweatshirt, /products/personalized-embroidered-pet-face-and-name-sweatshirt, /products/custom-embroidered-pet-from-your-photo, /products/personalized-embroidered-pet-face-sweatshirt, /products/custom-pet-portrait-sweatshirt-1 and /products/custom-embroidered-line-drawing-crewneck-hoodie and 2 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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

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

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://gleecustom.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en&region_country=US.

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.

gleecustom.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.

gleecustom.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.

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

Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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.

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 488 words of visible text.

gleecustom.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

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 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 6 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 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.