heycarson.com website review

Not measured in this review.

• 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 LCP: 4.6 s

  4.6 s

  Real visitors wait 4.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

• Real-user FCP: 4.4 s

  4.4 s

  Real visitors see the first content after 4.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

• Real-user TTFB: 3.4 s

  3.4 s

  Real visitors wait 3.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

• Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

  -3%

  Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 5.6 s to 4.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

• 4 images far larger than shown

  509 KiB

  4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 01KV63TBE71GQAAXMQDNAGNKA0.png at 1,200 px wide, shown at 56 px. Resized copies would save about 509 KiB.

  Elements (4)

• Page weight: 2.1 MB

  2.1 MB

  Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB on a phone, 723 KiB of it images (33%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

• 4 images in older formats

  4 images (549 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.

  Elements (4)

• 4 images below the first screen load straight away

  4 images further down the page (549 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  Elements (4)

• About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

  0.61 g

  By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.61 g of CO₂e: 72.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

• 23 tap targets too small

  23 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  Elements (3)

• 4 text elements with low contrast

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

  Elements (3)

• 1 form field without a label

  1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

• Title is long (75 characters)

  Your title is 75 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Hire the Best Shopify Experts, Agencies and Service Providers | shopexperts”.

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• 220 internal links, 78 external

  The homepage links to 220 pages on heycarson.com and 78 external pages.

• 1 link to non-canonical URLs

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

  Elements (1)

• 10 pages slow to respond

  /experts, /freelancers/laura-dolgy, /freelancers/emil-gjorgjijev, /freelancers/sumit-chakradhar, /freelancers/rabia-tariq and /freelancers/awais-javed and 4 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

• 15 internal pages checked

  We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 96 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

• 1 broken link to your own pages

  1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://shopexperts.com/stories/azura-jewelry (404).

• No HSTS header

  No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

• No Content-Security-Policy

  No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

• No clickjacking protection

  Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

• No X-Content-Type-Options

  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

• 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.

• No security.txt

  There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

• No CAA record

  shopexperts.com 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.

• DNSSEC is off

  shopexperts.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

• 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 form on the homepage

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

• 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 2,776 words of copy

  The homepage carries about 2,776 words of visible text.

• DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

  DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be heycarson.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

• Email authentication score: 70/100

  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.

• 1 tracker load before any consent

  1

  Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Microsoft Clarity (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.

• 9 cookies set on arrival

  9

  Opening the homepage sets 9 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.

• 10 other companies contacted

  Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.