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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202619 issues · 57 checks

This review found 19 issues worth fixing on hydrapak.com, 7 of them high impact, across 57 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 9.4 MB. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.7 s1.2 sMay 16Oct 311.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.7 s
May 23, 20261.6 s
May 30, 20261.6 s
Jun 6, 20261.6 s
Jun 13, 20261.6 s
Jun 20, 20261.6 s
Jun 27, 20261.6 s
Jul 4, 20261.6 s
Jul 11, 20261.6 s
Jul 18, 20261.5 s
Jul 25, 20261.5 s
Aug 1, 20261.5 s
Aug 8, 20261.5 s
Aug 15, 20261.4 s
Aug 22, 20261.4 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.3 s
Sep 12, 20261.3 s
Sep 19, 20261.3 s
Sep 26, 20261.2 s
Oct 3, 20261.3 s
Oct 10, 20261.3 s
Oct 17, 20261.3 s
Oct 24, 20261.4 s
Oct 31, 20261.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
150 ms116 msMay 16Oct 31140 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026120 ms
May 23, 2026120 ms
May 30, 2026121 ms
Jun 6, 2026123 ms
Jun 13, 2026125 ms
Jun 20, 2026127 ms
Jun 27, 2026128 ms
Jul 4, 2026127 ms
Jul 11, 2026127 ms
Jul 18, 2026125 ms
Jul 25, 2026126 ms
Aug 1, 2026127 ms
Aug 8, 2026128 ms
Aug 15, 2026129 ms
Aug 22, 2026129 ms
Aug 29, 2026135 ms
Sep 5, 2026137 ms
Sep 12, 2026138 ms
Sep 19, 2026140 ms
Sep 26, 2026141 ms
Oct 3, 2026144 ms
Oct 10, 2026146 ms
Oct 17, 2026146 ms
Oct 24, 2026145 ms
Oct 31, 2026140 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

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

100
  • Tap response (INP) got 19% slower for real visitors

    +19%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 120 ms to 140 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

7 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 138 ms

    138 ms

    Real visitors wait 138 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 433 ms

    433 ms

    Real visitors wait 433 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 18% faster for real visitors

    -18%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Images and page weight

5 to fix18
  • Page weight: 9.4 MB

    9.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 9.4 MB on a phone, 4.7 MB of it images (51%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 2 images over 500 KB

    2 images weigh 2.2 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 5 images far larger than shown

    1.6 MB

    5 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example HP26_Rover_Food_Water_2-Pack_Detail_HighRes-1.webp at 2,500 px wide, shown at 80 px. Resized copies would save about 1.6 MB.

  • 11 images in older formats

    11 images (3.3 MB) 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.

  • 5 images below the first screen load straight away

    5 images further down the page (2.0 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 2.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.66 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.66 g of CO₂e: 318.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

3 to fix97
  • Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 36 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 54 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 57 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 54 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fix78
  • No H1 headline

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

  • Title is long (66 characters)

    Your title is 66 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “HydraPak | Performance Hydration Reservoirs, Soft Flasks & Bottles”.

  • Meta description is long (316 characters)

    Your meta description is 316 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 109 internal links, 15 external

    The homepage links to 109 pages on hydrapak.com and 15 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.hydrapak.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: 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 and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.hydrapak.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • 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.

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.

  • Organization data: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description; contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (717 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix85
  • 3 pages without a meta description

    /pages/rewards, /pages/packflask%E2%84%A2 and /collections/bundles have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 link to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /pages/packflask%E2%84%A2, whose canonical is /pages/packflask%e2%84%a2. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 2 pages without an H1

    /pages/warranty and /pages/packflask%E2%84%A2 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 46 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    13 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • 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 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fix71
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://d3k81ch9hvuctc.cloudfront.net/company/TYYSc5/images/6f4857a1-e0fe-4e46-b645-d44ed1e29993.png.

  • 13 small tap targets

    13 of 60 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 “Uncaught TypeError: $ is not a function”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix86
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • About 643 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 643 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Learn More” and “SHOP ALL”.

  • 27 calls to action

    The homepage has 27 calls to action, for example “Learn More”, “Shop” and “SHOP ALL”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 9 trackers load before any consent

    9

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 4 mores (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.

  • 27 cookies set on arrival

    27

    Opening the homepage sets 27 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.

  • 63 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 63 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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 hydrapak.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
adastra
Framework
Tailwind CSS
E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Shopify

Hiring

Hiring
2 open roles
Job board
careers page

Company

Employees
47
Founded
2001

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