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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202641 issues · 91 checks

This review found 41 issues worth fixing on groomsshop.com, 16 of them high impact, across 91 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
4.0 s2.6 sMay 23Nov 73.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.9 s
May 30, 20262.9 s
Jun 6, 20262.9 s
Jun 13, 20263.0 s
Jun 20, 20263.0 s
Jun 27, 20263.0 s
Jul 4, 20262.9 s
Jul 11, 20263.0 s
Jul 18, 20262.9 s
Jul 25, 20263.0 s
Aug 1, 20263.0 s
Aug 8, 20262.9 s
Aug 15, 20263.0 s
Aug 22, 20263.0 s
Aug 29, 20262.8 s
Sep 5, 20262.8 s
Sep 12, 20262.8 s
Sep 19, 20262.9 s
Sep 26, 20263.0 s
Oct 3, 20263.3 s
Oct 10, 20263.5 s
Oct 17, 20263.6 s
Oct 24, 20263.7 s
Oct 31, 20263.7 s
Nov 7, 20263.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
114 ms85 msMay 23Nov 796 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 202688 ms
May 30, 202689 ms
Jun 6, 202689 ms
Jun 13, 202691 ms
Jun 20, 202695 ms
Jun 27, 202693 ms
Jul 4, 202695 ms
Jul 11, 202695 ms
Jul 18, 202695 ms
Jul 25, 202696 ms
Aug 1, 202696 ms
Aug 8, 202696 ms
Aug 15, 202696 ms
Aug 22, 202697 ms
Aug 29, 2026102 ms
Sep 5, 2026102 ms
Sep 12, 2026104 ms
Sep 19, 2026108 ms
Sep 26, 2026105 ms
Oct 3, 2026111 ms
Oct 10, 2026106 ms
Oct 17, 2026104 ms
Oct 24, 2026104 ms
Oct 31, 202699 ms
Nov 7, 202696 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 groomsshop.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. groomsshop.com at 4.1 s4.1 s
  2. groomsshop.com at 8.2 s8.2 s
  3. groomsshop.com at 12.3 s12.3 s
  4. groomsshop.com at 16.4 s16.4 s
  5. groomsshop.com at 20.4 s20.4 s
  6. groomsshop.com at 24.5 s24.5 s
  7. groomsshop.com at 28.6 s28.6 s
  8. groomsshop.com at 32.7 s32.7 s

Speed

12 to fix50
  • Improve image delivery

    3.1 s · 624 KiB

    6 images could be 624 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    2.5 s · 536 KiB

    25 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (536 KiB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.5 s · 446 KiB

    About 446 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.4 s

    38 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Mailchimp and others), adding 1.3 MB and 930 ms of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 50

    50/100

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

  • Reduce unused CSS

    750 ms · 110 KiB

    About 110 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 346 ms

    346 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 346 ms of main-thread work and 369 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    300 ms · 45 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 45 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 2.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 long tasks on the main thread

    8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 263 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Google CDN adds 113 ms

    113 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 113 ms of main-thread work and 300 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.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • 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

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 26 ms

    26 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 26 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

11 to fix50
  • 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.

  • Real-user TTFB: 2.8 s

    2.8 s

    Real visitors wait 2.8 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 20.2 s

    20.2 s

    Your largest element takes 20.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 20.2 s

    20.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 20.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 11.6 s

    11.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.8 s

    3.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.1 s

    3.1 s

    Real visitors wait 3.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 32% slower for real visitors

    +32%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.9 s to 3.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user FCP: 2.8 s

    2.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 343 ms

    343 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 343 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) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 88 ms to 96 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

2 checks passed
  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

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

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

3 to fix55
  • 4 images far larger than shown

    497 KiB

    4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Golf-Shoe-Bag-MAIN-New-1024x1024.jpg at 1,024 px wide, shown at 87 px. Resized copies would save about 497 KiB.

  • Page weight: 2.9 MB in 165 requests

    2.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 165 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (75), images 876 KiB (16) and fonts 379 KiB (14). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 4 images in older formats

    4 images (551 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.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.82 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.82 g of CO₂e: 98.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images load when needed

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

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 8988
  • 3 buttons without a name

    3 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 27 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail 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.

  • 3 form fields without a label

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 97 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 38 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 38 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9295
  • No social preview image

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

  • 3 links with vague text

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

  • 188 internal links, 14 external

    The homepage links to 188 pages on groomsshop.com and 14 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 139 characters

    Your meta description is 139 characters: “Trusted source for cool and unique groomsmen gifts since 2008. Shop 100s of personalized ideas (coolers, duffle bags, g…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Groomsmen Gifts Done Right”.

  • Title: 58 characters

    Your title is a healthy 58 characters: “Groomsmen Gifts for Every Type of Man in 2026 (from $4.95)”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://themanregistry.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://themanregistry.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.

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.

  • Organization data: 6 of 6 facts

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,590 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 3 pages without a meta description

    https://themanregistry.com/gifts/groomsmen-gifts/bar-party-gear, https://themanregistry.com/gifts/groomsmen-gifts/hunting-outdoors-gifts and https://themanregistry.com/gifts/groomsmen-gifts/bbq-grill-gifts have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://themanregistry.com/corporate-gifts has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages slow to respond

    https://themanregistry.com/gifts/groomsmen-gifts/personalized-groomsmen-watches and https://themanregistry.com/gifts/groomsmen-gifts/personalized-groomsmen-pocket-knives-tools took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 107 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 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.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 7782
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=151014791&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=c9bbd4b6-0d00-4e3a-b856-9aad0a502c48&bo=1&sid=0065f0a0ddfd11f1865237d38594ddc7&vid=00663190ddfd11f1b906af7480ece7a9&vids=1&msclkid=N&gtm_.

  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

3 checks passed
  • No console errors

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

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    39 of 39 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix93
  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 1,209 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,209 words of visible text.

  • Urgency cues

    The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP NOW” and “Return to Shop”.

  • 16 calls to action

    The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Shop by Price” and “Shop By Wedding Role”.

  • 3 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 5 testimonial or review blocks and 3 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads and 1 more (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.

  • 21 cookies set on arrival

    21

    Opening the homepage sets 21 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.

  • 28 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 28 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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