havenlight.com website review

15 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.

A phone's processor spends 6.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 5,057 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and Klaviyo and others), adding 22.2 MB and 1.3 s of main-thread time.

Shopify costs a phone 114 ms of main-thread work and 21.0 MB 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.

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

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 460 ms of main-thread work and 567 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.

About 381 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

12 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 289 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

24 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (288 KiB).

Clarity costs a phone 282 ms of main-thread work and 29 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.

Klaviyo costs a phone 161 ms of main-thread work and 347 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.

About 120 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

7 images could be 85 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Polyfills for old browsers add 78 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

10 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

10 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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.

Visually, the page fills in at 14.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 21.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 607 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 2.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “BLACK FRIDAY 30% OFF SITEWIDE | EXCLUDES ORIGINAL ART | SHO…”. Most of its time is element render delay (1.3 s).

Your homepage downloads 25.0 MB in 483 requests on a phone: media 20.5 MB (6), other files 1.7 MB (286) and scripts 1.5 MB (106). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

Sunlit_room_with_oak-framed_shepherd_artwork_c2e514fe-07a0-4 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).

1 image further down the page (32 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 7.09 g of CO₂e: 851.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

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

1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h5, h3 → h5 and h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).

Your meta description is 309 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 128 pages on havenlight.com and 12 external pages.

https://havenlight.com/collections/all, https://havenlight.com/collections/new-and-featured-art, https://havenlight.com/pages/christmas-catalog-2026, https://havenlight.com/pages/fall-catalog-2026, https://havenlight.com/collections/nature-and-landscapes and https://havenlight.com/collections/books-puzzles-and-calendars and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://havenlight.com/collections/all, https://havenlight.com/collections/jesus-pictures-and-images-of-christ, https://havenlight.com/collections/best-sellers, https://havenlight.com/collections/new-and-featured-art, https://havenlight.com/pages/christmas-catalog-2026 and https://havenlight.com/pages/fall-catalog-2026 and 8 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://havenlight.com/collections/nature-and-landscapes has 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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 61 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://d3k81ch9hvuctc.cloudfront.net/company/VxV7e7/images/efa743a4-69e6-439e-b7e9-607a02a637fb.png.

26 of 49 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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

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 981 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Klaviyo and 3 mores (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 30 cookies, 7 of them by other companies (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 54 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.