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hiro.design website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202641 issues · 108 checks
This review found 41 issues worth fixing on hiro.design, 17 of them high impact, across 108 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
72C- #62,813 of 81,714 reviewed websitesbeats 20%
- #34,264 of 40,518 online storesbeats 13%
- #31,284 of 35,898 Shopify storesbeats 10%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.6 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 180 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 180 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 205 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 212 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 220 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 223 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 225 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 226 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 227 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 221 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 218 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 218 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 219 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 218 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 207 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 201 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 194 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
How it loaded on a phone
1.1 s
2.3 s
3.4 s
4.5 s
5.6 s
6.8 s
7.9 s
9.0 s
hiro.design does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.3 s · 476 KiB26 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (476 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 46
46/100Your mobile performance score is 46. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 8.9 s
A phone's processor spends 8.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,864 HTML elements
The page has 3,864 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Shopify and Cookiebot and others), adding 3.4 MB and 1.7 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
450 ms · 1.5 MBAbout 1.5 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 584 ms
584 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 584 ms of main-thread work and 698 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.
Reduce unused CSS
410 ms · 78 KiBAbout 78 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 410 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
Improve image delivery
267 KiB6 images could be 267 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Shopify adds 185 ms
185 msShopify costs a phone 185 ms of main-thread work and 698 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.
rebuyengine.com adds 168 ms
168 msrebuyengine.com costs a phone 168 ms of main-thread work and 723 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.
cloudfront.net adds 171 ms
171 mscloudfront.net costs a phone 171 ms of main-thread work and 606 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 adds 147 ms
147 msKlaviyo costs a phone 147 ms of main-thread work and 390 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 222 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
90 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 90 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
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.
Minify CSS
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 74 ms
74 msYour server sent the HTML in 74 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Largest Contentful Paint: 10.2 s
10.2 sYour largest element takes 10.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “collezione bagno 1 MOBILE”.
Time to Interactive: 29.1 s
29.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 29.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 10.9 s
10.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 10.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 784 ms
784 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 784 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user LCP: 2.9 s
2.9 sReal visitors wait 2.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 207 ms
207 msReal visitors wait 207 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
4 images without width and height
4 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+8%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 180 ms to 194 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+2%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 471 ms
471 msReal visitors wait 471 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001
0.001The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.8 MB in 343 requests
5.8 MBYour homepage downloads 5.8 MB in 343 requests on a phone: scripts 3.2 MB (127), other files 1.1 MB (150) and images 757 KiB (36). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit
1.63 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.63 g of CO₂e: 195.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
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
Required ARIA attributes must be provided (10 elements)
Required ARIA attributes must be provided: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (3 elements)
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.
Unlabelled dropdowns
1 dropdown has no label.
29 text elements with low contrast
29 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Orphan list items
Some list items are not inside a list.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
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.
4 form fields without a label
4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
1 checks passed
53 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 60 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 passed and 7 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Meta description is long (162 characters)
Your meta description is 162 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
631 internal links, 17 external
The homepage links to 631 pages on hiro.design and 17 external pages.
7 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “HiroDesign”.
Title: 42 characters
Your title is a healthy 42 characters: “HiroDesign® - Design is a Matter of Choice”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://hiro.design/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization 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.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://hiro.design/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
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 checks passed
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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,539 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
5 pages without a meta description
/pages/about, /collections/gift-card, /collections/womp, /collections/mensola-alveo and /collections/scarpiere have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
/pages/about has 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 196 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
12 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
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 12 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
173 small tap targets
173 of 227 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
6 JavaScript errors while loading
6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Unexpected token 'function'”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
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.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (hiro.design).
Valid certificate (55 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for hiro.design and is valid for another 55 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://hiro.design redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 47 links work
All 47 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 7 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.
Domain and trust
Domain expires in 57 days
hiro.design is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.
No CAA record
hiro.design 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
hiro.design'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.
1 checks passed
Domain is 9 years old
9 yearshiro.design was registered in Jan 2017 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Content and conversion
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.
Phone number is not tap-to-call
Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.
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 1,375 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,375 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
11 calls to action
The homepage has 11 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Archivio Call” and “Call for Ideas”.
10 short forms
10 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 124 testimonial or review blocks and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be hiro.design is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.
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.
2 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “k1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
21 cookies set on arrival
21Opening the homepage sets 21 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
43 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 43 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: Cookiebot
A consent management tool (Cookiebot) loads with the page.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 11 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.
Apps your storefront loads
Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · T Lab Ai Translate · Judge Me Reviews · Rebuy Personalization Engine · Wishlist Hero · Elevar Conversion Tracking · Selecty · Eg Auto Add To Cart · Announcement Bar With Slider · Access Pro · Zipify Oneclickupsell
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
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 41 issues on hiro.design, including 22 speed issues, 1 SEO issue and 1 conversion gap. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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