houseables.com website review

About 731 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.7 s faster on a phone.

17 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (478 KiB).

8 third-party services load with your homepage (POWr, powrcdn.com and Facebook and others), adding 1.4 MB and 990 ms of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 56. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 146 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 770 ms faster on a phone.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.

POWr costs a phone 308 ms of main-thread work and 57 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.

powrcdn.com costs a phone 231 ms of main-thread work and 609 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 108 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

1 image could be 26 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

The first text or image appears after 8.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 14.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Free 2-Day Shipping SHOP NOW”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 16.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 8.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

8 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 2.8 MB in 210 requests on a phone: scripts 1.5 MB (53), other files 852 KiB (126) and stylesheets 201 KiB (12). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.78 g of CO₂e: 93.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Links must have discernible text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

8 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 10 characters: “Houseables”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

The homepage links to 59 pages on houseables.com and 3 external pages.

/collections/all, /collections/new-arrivals, /collections/gifts, /collections/home, /collections/kitchen-bar and /collections/beauty and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/collections/all, /collections/new-arrivals, /collections/gifts, /collections/home, /collections/kitchen-bar and /collections/beauty and 1 other have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “cache is not defined”.

2 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

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

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

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

houseables.com is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.

houseables.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.

houseables.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.

Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 179 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

houseables.com has no DMARC record, so nothing tells receivers what to do with mail that fails SPF or DKIM. Gmail and Yahoo require DMARC from bulk senders.

Your SPF record doesn't end in -all or ~all, so it doesn't stop other servers sending as you: “v=spf1 a mx ptr include:bluehost.com ?all”.

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: 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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel (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 11 cookies (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 17 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.