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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202618 issues · 58 checks

This review found 18 issues worth fixing on hellomagazine.com, 3 of them high impact, across 58 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.9 s1.2 sApr 18Oct 31.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20261.8 s
Apr 25, 20261.8 s
May 2, 20261.8 s
May 9, 20261.8 s
May 16, 20261.8 s
May 23, 20261.7 s
May 30, 20261.6 s
Jun 6, 20261.6 s
Jun 13, 20261.5 s
Jun 20, 20261.5 s
Jun 27, 20261.5 s
Jul 4, 20261.5 s
Jul 11, 20261.4 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.4 s
Aug 1, 20261.3 s
Aug 8, 20261.3 s
Aug 15, 20261.3 s
Aug 22, 20261.3 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.4 s
Sep 12, 20261.4 s
Sep 19, 20261.5 s
Sep 26, 20261.5 s
Oct 3, 20261.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
228 ms160 msApr 18Oct 3217 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 2026179 ms
Apr 25, 2026178 ms
May 2, 2026175 ms
May 9, 2026169 ms
May 16, 2026168 ms
May 23, 2026171 ms
May 30, 2026174 ms
Jun 6, 2026182 ms
Jun 13, 2026188 ms
Jun 20, 2026188 ms
Jun 27, 2026190 ms
Jul 4, 2026191 ms
Jul 11, 2026191 ms
Jul 18, 2026194 ms
Jul 25, 2026195 ms
Aug 1, 2026196 ms
Aug 8, 2026202 ms
Aug 15, 2026206 ms
Aug 22, 2026208 ms
Aug 29, 2026215 ms
Sep 5, 2026218 ms
Sep 12, 2026217 ms
Sep 19, 2026220 ms
Sep 26, 2026220 ms
Oct 3, 2026217 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

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user INP: 217 ms

    217 ms

    Real visitors wait 217 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 22% slower for real visitors

    +22%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 179 ms to 217 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 812 ms

    812 ms

    Real visitors wait 812 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

4 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.06

    0.06

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.06 (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.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 16% faster for real visitors

    -16%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.52 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.52 g of CO₂e: 62.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed
  • Page weight: 1.8 MB

    1.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.8 MB on a phone, 117 KiB of it images (6%). That is a lean page.

  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • 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

1 to fix99
  • 18 links without text

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 92 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 45 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 0 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

100
  • 284 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 284 pages on hellomagazine.com and 13 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 160 characters

    Your meta description is 160 characters: “HELLO! US edition brings you the latest celebrity & royal news from the US & around the world, magazine exclusives, cel…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “HELLO! US Edition - Latest news and Photos”.

  • Title: 42 characters

    Your title is a healthy 42 characters: “HELLO! US Edition - Latest news and Photos”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.hellomagazine.com/us/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage 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://www.hellomagazine.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix65
  • robots.txt blocks 3 AI answer engine crawlers

    3 of 6

    Your robots.txt shuts out ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User). These fetch pages to answer people's questions and cite the source, so your site can't be quoted or linked in those answers.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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.

  • Opted out of AI training for 2 crawlers

    robots.txt blocks Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers.

2 checks passed
  • Organization data: 5 of 6 facts

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,173 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

4 to fix75
  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    /newsletter is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 2 pages share a title

    /us and / all use the title “HELLO! US Edition - Latest news and Photos”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /, whose canonical is /us. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page without an H1

    /subscribe has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page with very little text

    /subscribe 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.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 196 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fix87
  • 7 small tap targets

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

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://accounts.google.com/gsi/style' from origin 'https://www.hellomagazine.com' has bee…”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

5 to fix57
  • 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.

  • 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 phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • 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.

  • No opening hours

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

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 2,041 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 2,041 words of visible text.

2 checks passed
  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Subscribe”, “Contact” and “Subscribe on Youtube”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: a star rating and 4 trust badges.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Google Ads and Google Tag Manager (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.

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 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.

  • 19 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 19 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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