hydroxycut.com website review

About 428 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 29. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 8.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 1.9 s. During a long task the page ignores taps.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Shopify and gemcommerce.com and others), adding 1.1 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

About 51 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 610 ms faster on a phone.

19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (91 KiB).

7 images could be 452 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 285 ms of main-thread work and 184 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.

Shopify costs a phone 240 ms of main-thread work and 588 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.

The page has 2,115 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

15 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

Polyfills for old browsers add 19 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.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 13.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 2.8 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The page becomes fully interactive after 17.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 11.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 2.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.3 MB in 287 requests on a phone: scripts 1.3 MB (96), other files 855 KiB (142) and images 763 KiB (22). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.94 g of CO₂e: 112.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

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

Elements use prohibited ARIA attributes (1 element).

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h5, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 71 pages on hydroxycut.com and 20 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing 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.

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

/pages/product-quiz and /products have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/products/glp-1-elite-shred has 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.

/blogs/articles and /blogs/recipes took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 35 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET”.

3 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://www.hydroxycut.com/products/hydroxycut-hardcore (network).

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.

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

hydroxycut.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. 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.

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

The homepage carries about 258 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be hydroxycut.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

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 Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 25 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 52 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.