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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202634 issues · 104 checks

This review found 34 issues worth fixing on gowesty.com, 7 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 4.1 MB in 261 requests. 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
2.0 s1.6 sMay 16Oct 311.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.9 s
May 23, 20261.9 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.8 s
Jun 13, 20261.8 s
Jun 20, 20261.9 s
Jun 27, 20261.9 s
Jul 4, 20261.9 s
Jul 11, 20261.8 s
Jul 18, 20261.9 s
Jul 25, 20261.9 s
Aug 1, 20261.9 s
Aug 8, 20261.8 s
Aug 15, 20261.7 s
Aug 22, 20261.7 s
Aug 29, 20261.7 s
Sep 5, 20261.7 s
Sep 12, 20261.7 s
Sep 19, 20261.7 s
Sep 26, 20261.7 s
Oct 3, 20261.7 s
Oct 10, 20261.7 s
Oct 17, 20261.6 s
Oct 24, 20261.6 s
Oct 31, 20261.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
162 ms136 msMay 16Oct 31151 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026146 ms
May 23, 2026145 ms
May 30, 2026144 ms
Jun 6, 2026146 ms
Jun 13, 2026153 ms
Jun 20, 2026155 ms
Jun 27, 2026159 ms
Jul 4, 2026158 ms
Jul 11, 2026154 ms
Jul 18, 2026154 ms
Jul 25, 2026153 ms
Aug 1, 2026150 ms
Aug 8, 2026150 ms
Aug 15, 2026146 ms
Aug 22, 2026145 ms
Aug 29, 2026146 ms
Sep 5, 2026141 ms
Sep 12, 2026139 ms
Sep 19, 2026142 ms
Sep 26, 2026145 ms
Oct 3, 2026146 ms
Oct 10, 2026151 ms
Oct 17, 2026151 ms
Oct 24, 2026149 ms
Oct 31, 2026151 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 gowesty.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. gowesty.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. gowesty.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. gowesty.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  4. gowesty.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  5. gowesty.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  6. gowesty.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  7. gowesty.com at 3.8 s3.8 s
  8. gowesty.com at 4.3 s4.3 s

gowesty.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

10 to fix50
  • Mobile performance score: 50

    50/100

    Your mobile performance score is 50. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (doratree.com, Shopify and Mailchimp and others), adding 1.4 MB and 664 ms of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

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

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    170 ms · 449 KiB

    About 449 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 170 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    528 KiB

    25 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (528 KiB).

  • Main-thread work: 3.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Shopify adds 220 ms

    220 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 220 ms of main-thread work and 610 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.

  • doratree.com adds 226 ms

    226 ms

    doratree.com costs a phone 226 ms of main-thread work and 473 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 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 271 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 1,556 HTML elements

    The page has 1,556 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 150 KiB

    4 images could be 150 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.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Reduce unused CSS

    35 KiB

    About 35 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    18 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 18 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    5 KiB

    5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Minify CSS

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 13 ms

    13 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix100
  • Time to Interactive: 17.7 s

    17.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 17.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 5.4 s

    5.4 s

    Your largest element takes 5.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Reliability & Kill Switch [Vanagon]”.

  • Speed Index: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.283

    0.283

    The layout shifts by 0.283 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s

    2.3 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 295 ms

    295 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 295 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 146 ms to 151 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

7 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 145 ms

    145 ms

    Real visitors wait 145 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.07

    0.07

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.07 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 463 ms

    463 ms

    Real visitors wait 463 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 15% faster for real visitors

    -15%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Images and page weight

2 to fix69
  • Page weight: 4.1 MB in 261 requests

    4.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.1 MB in 261 requests on a phone: scripts 1.8 MB (84), images 1.0 MB (34) and other files 949 KiB (125). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    HD_Bolt_and_Washer_Kit.png is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (69 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.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (58 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.16 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.16 g of CO₂e: 138.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • 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 10097
  • Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    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.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 21 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 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 3 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9293
  • Meta description is long (252 characters)

    Your meta description is 252 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 8 links with vague text

    8 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 57 internal links, 9 external

    The homepage links to 57 pages on gowesty.com and 9 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “GoWesty”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “GoWesty • Premier Parts Supplier for VW Bus, Vanagon, & Eurovan”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://gowesty.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization 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://gowesty.com/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 (489 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

3 to fix65
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to /collections, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /blogs/traveling-ambassadors and /pages/contact-gowesty have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /products/cabin-light-led-bus-vanagon-eurovan, whose canonical is /products/interior-lighting-cabin-led. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 3 pages with very little text

    /blogs/traveling-ambassadors, /pages/contact-gowesty and /collections/sale 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 39 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • 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 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 96100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    24 of 25 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix86
  • 1 broken link to your own pages

    1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://gowesty.com/collections (500).

  • Short HSTS lifetime

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

  • 3 links through redirect chains

    3 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://gowesty.com/account.

  • No Referrer-Policy

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

  • No Permissions-Policy

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

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

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

  • No security.txt

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

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (gowesty.com).

  • Valid certificate (61 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for gowesty.com and is valid for another 61 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://gowesty.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

Domain and trust

1 to fix
  • Domain expires in 32 days

    gowesty.com is registered until Dec 2026. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.

  • No CAA record

    gowesty.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.

  • DNSSEC is off

    gowesty.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.

1 checks passed
  • Domain is 28 years old

    28 years

    gowesty.com was registered in Dec 1997 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

Content and conversion

4 to fix71
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 8 testimonial or review blocks. 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.

  • A 11-field form

    Your longest form asks for 11 fields (6 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

  • 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.

  • About 501 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 501 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP SPECIALS”.

  • 14 calls to action

    The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Contact” and “SHOP SPECIALS”.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

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

Email authentication

95
  • Email authentication score: 95/100

    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.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 mx a ip4:35.131.67.90 ip6:2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe33:30ea include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:sendgrid.net…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “selector2” and “k1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • 9 cookies set on arrival

    9

    Opening the homepage sets 9 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.

  • 27 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 27 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).

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 22 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.

Apps your storefront loads

Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Selly Promotion Pricing · Judge Me Reviews · Froonze Loyalty Wishlist · Hulk Form Builder · Persistent Cart · Avada Seo Suite · Zapiet Pickup Delivery · Helium Customer Fields · Froonze App · Cart Persistify · Giftnote App · Countdown Timer · Back In Stock · returngo.ai · chimpstatic.com · printful.com · usemechanic.com · cloudfront.net · govx.com · nfcube.com · b-cdn.net

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
Tailwind CSS
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

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

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