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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202631 issues · 73 checks

This review found 31 issues worth fixing on hastetheday.com, 10 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
1.1 s787 msMay 23Oct 17928 ms
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 2026840 ms
May 30, 2026867 ms
Jun 27, 20261.0 s
Jul 4, 20261.1 s
Jul 11, 20261.1 s
Jul 18, 20261.0 s
Jul 25, 2026991 ms
Aug 29, 2026829 ms
Sep 5, 2026835 ms
Sep 12, 2026881 ms
Oct 17, 2026928 ms
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
96 ms85 msMay 23Sep 587 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 202686 ms
May 30, 202687 ms
Jun 27, 202695 ms
Jul 4, 202694 ms
Jul 18, 202687 ms
Aug 29, 202687 ms
Sep 5, 202687 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 hastetheday.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

8 to fix50
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.1 s · 698 KiB

    About 698 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, Google Tag Manager and bandsintown.com and others), adding 1.6 MB and 1.3 s 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.

  • YouTube adds 817 ms

    817 ms

    YouTube costs a phone 817 ms of main-thread work and 993 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.

  • Main-thread work: 3.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 276 ms

    276 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 276 ms of main-thread work and 133 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.

  • 11 long tasks on the main thread

    11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 273 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 2,436 HTML elements

    The page has 2,436 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    280 ms · 142 KiB

    About 142 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 280 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    229 KiB

    8 images could be 229 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Font display

    200 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    158 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (158 KiB).

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix56
  • First Contentful Paint: 5.8 s

    5.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 15.4 s

    15.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 15.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 5.8 s

    5.8 s

    Your largest element takes 5.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Subscribe to get special offers, free giveaways, and once-i…”.

  • Speed Index: 6.3 s

    6.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 550 ms

    550 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 550 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 86 ms to 87 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.8 s to 0.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 3.3 MB in 150 requests

    3.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.3 MB in 150 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (39), images 987 KiB (17) and other files 683 KiB (81). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (96 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 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.94 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.94 g of CO₂e: 112.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 8693
  • 6 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Hidden but focusable

    1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • Frames without titles

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

  • 3 links without text

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 20 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 4 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10096
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 31 internal links, 21 external

    The homepage links to 31 pages on hastetheday.com and 21 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 72 characters

    Your meta description is 72 characters: “Shop Haste The Day merch, and stay up to date on new shows and releases.”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Haste The Day”.

  • Title: 48 characters

    Your title is a healthy 48 characters: “HASTE THE DAY | OFFICIAL WEBSITE – Haste The Day”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • 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://hastetheday.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

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  • 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.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

4 to fix83
  • 8 pages without a meta description

    https://hastetheday.com/collections/new-arrivals, https://hastetheday.com/collections/apparel, https://hastetheday.com/collections/t-shirts, https://hastetheday.com/collections/outerwear, https://hastetheday.com/collections/accessories and https://hastetheday.com/collections/music and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 4 pages share a meta description

    https://hastetheday.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/dissenter-tee-preorder, https://hastetheday.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/will-you-stay-tee-preorder, https://hastetheday.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/will-you-stay-tee-preorder-copy and https://hastetheday.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/illusion-tee-preorder use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 6 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 6 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://hastetheday.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/dissenter-cd, whose canonical is https://hastetheday.com/products/dissenter-cd. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://hastetheday.com/pages/contact has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 14 internal pages checked

    We fetched 14 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 14 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 7797
  • 5 third-party cookies

    5 third-party cookies are 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

    16 of 18 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

5 to fix50
  • No call to action on the first screen

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

  • No social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • 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.

  • Only about 135 words

    The homepage has only about 135 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

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  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Shop All”, “Subscribe icon-right-arrow” and “JOIN NOW”.

  • 6 short forms

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager 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.

  • 8 cookies set on arrival

    8

    Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 16 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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 hastetheday.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

No apps were seen in the code your storefront loads.

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

E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Founded
1978

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