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howardspharmacy.ie website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202624 issues · 67 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on howardspharmacy.ie, 4 of them high impact, across 67 checks. The most urgent: 1 text element with low contrast. 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
77CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Mobile performance score: 78
78/100Your mobile performance score is 78. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 67 KiBAbout 67 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (cdn-website.com, termly.io and dwhitelabel.com and others), adding 1.0 MB and 182 ms of main-thread time.
cdn-website.com adds 125 ms
125 mscdn-website.com costs a phone 125 ms of main-thread work and 811 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 JavaScript
117 KiBAbout 117 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
109 KiB3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (109 KiB).
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 53 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.7 s
A phone's processor spends 0.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 269 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.4 s
4.4 sYour largest element takes 4.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “'Your Health, Our Priority' Our Services Contact Us”.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.167
0.167The layout shifts by 0.167 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Time to Interactive: 4.4 s
4.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 4.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
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.
3 checks passed
First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sThe first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Speed Index: 1.8 s
1.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 1.8 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 3 ms
3 msScripts block the page for only 3 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit
0.30 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.30 g of CO₂e: 35.8 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: 1.1 MB in 55 requests
1.1 MBYour homepage downloads 1.1 MB in 55 requests on a phone: scripts 434 KiB (22), fonts 260 KiB (10) and images 258 KiB (7). 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 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (8 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
3 links without text
3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (4 characters)
Your title is only 4 characters: “Home”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
3 H1 headlines
There are 3 <h1> headlines (“'Your Health, Our Priority'”, “Your Community Pharmacy” and “Your community pharmacy, open late all week”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
14 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 14 pages on howardspharmacy.ie and 7 external pages.
3 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/.
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.howardspharmacy.ie/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
3 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 (666 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/llms.txt (1 KiB, 9 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
5 pages without a meta description
https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/services, https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/team, https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/gallery, https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/payment-2 and https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/contact-us have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages with very little text
https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/gallery and https://www.howardspharmacy.ie/payment-2 have 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.
5 internal pages checked
We fetched 5 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 5 pages we checked loaded without an error.
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.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 5 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
5 small tap targets
5 of 17 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'register')”.
2 distorted images
2 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 271 words of copy
The homepage carries about 271 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact Us”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Privacy and tracking
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
5 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
2 checks passed
Consent tool: Termly
A consent management tool (Termly) loads with the page.
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at howardspharmacy.ie, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- Hosting
- AWS
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Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 24 issues on howardspharmacy.ie, including 7 speed issues, 6 SEO issues and 2 conversion gaps. 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
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- 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
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- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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