hexclad.ca website review

Not measured in this review.

• Largest content (LCP) got 28% slower for real visitors

  +28%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Tap response (INP) got 18% slower for real visitors

  +18%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 113 ms to 136 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• Page weight: 4.7 MB

  4.7 MB

  Your homepage downloads 4.7 MB on a phone, 1,022 KiB of it images (21%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

  mobile_Header_Subhead.svg 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).

  Elements (1)

• About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

  1.33 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.33 g of CO₂e: 159.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• 2 text elements with low contrast

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

  Elements (2)

• 1 image without alt text

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

  Elements (1)

• 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.

  Elements (1)

• 3 form fields without a label

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

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• 2 links without text

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

  Elements (1)

• Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (4 elements)

  Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  Elements (3)

• ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (2 elements)

  ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  Elements (2)

• No H1 headline

  There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

• 285 internal links, 8 external

  The homepage links to 285 pages on hexclad.ca and 8 external pages.

• 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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• 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.

• 2 pages share a title

  /pages/bakeware and /collections/bakeware all use the title “Bakeware | HexClad Canada”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  Elements (2)

• 9 pages without a meta description

  /collections/best-sellers, /pages/about-us, /blogs/recipes, /pages/culinary-council, /pages/barware and /pages/food-for-soul and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  Elements (8)

• 2 pages share a meta description

  /products/hybrid-small-baking-sheet-2-pk and /products/hybrid-medium-baking-sheet-2-pk use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

• 15 pages without an H1

  /collections/best-sellers, /pages/about-us, /pages/hexclad-science, /blogs/recipes, /pages/culinary-council and /pages/barware and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 133 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 1 broken image

  1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://hexclad.ca/.

• 2 JavaScript errors while loading

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

• http:// does not redirect

  http://hexclad.ca does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.

• Short HSTS lifetime

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

• 1 link through redirect chains

  1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://hexclad.ca/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.

• No CAA record

  hexclad.ca 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.

• Thin social proof

  Social proof on the homepage: 194 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

• 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 1,116 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 1,116 words of visible text.

• No DKIM key on the usual selectors

  We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

• Email authentication score: 75/100

  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.

• 8 trackers load before any consent

  8

  Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Osano) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

• 37 cookies set on arrival

  37

  Opening the homepage sets 37 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

• 46 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 46 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.