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ilesformula.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202638 issues · 104 checks
This review found 38 issues worth fixing on ilesformula.com, 10 of them high impact, across 104 checks. The most urgent: main-thread work: 6.4 s. 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
78C- #44,307 of 88,436 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #26,835 of 45,926 online storesbeats 36%
- #25,426 of 41,202 Shopify storesbeats 33%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 138 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 143 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 139 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 155 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 157 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 153 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 153 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
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ilesformula.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Main-thread work: 6.4 s
A phone's processor spends 6.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, alia-prod.com and Klaviyo and others), adding 2.1 MB and 1.8 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
150 ms · 1.2 MBAbout 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 51
51/100Your mobile performance score is 51. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
550 ms · 346 KiB8 images could be 346 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 550 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
650 ms10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.
Google Tag Manager adds 594 ms
594 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 594 ms of main-thread work and 552 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.
alia-prod.com adds 423 ms
423 msalia-prod.com costs a phone 423 ms of main-thread work and 290 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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
428 KiB30 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (428 KiB).
Klaviyo adds 327 ms
327 msKlaviyo costs a phone 327 ms of main-thread work and 358 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.
2,138 HTML elements
The page has 2,138 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
rebuyengine.com adds 136 ms
136 msrebuyengine.com costs a phone 136 ms of main-thread work and 300 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.
okendo.io adds 100 ms
100 msokendo.io costs a phone 100 ms of main-thread work and 342 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
150 ms · 73 KiBAbout 73 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 197 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
101 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 101 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify JavaScript
19 KiB19 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Minify CSS
12 KiB12 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 11 ms
11 msYour server sent the HTML in 11 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 29.2 s
29.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 29.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.8 s
7.8 sYour largest element takes 7.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Speed Index: 9.3 s
9.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 651 ms
651 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 651 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
1 image without width and height
1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 138 ms to 153 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
9 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors wait 1.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 126 ms
126 msReal visitors wait 126 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
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: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 665 ms
665 msReal visitors wait 665 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 10% faster for real visitors
-10%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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: 0.032
0.032The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.032, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.6 MB in 335 requests
5.6 MBYour homepage downloads 5.6 MB in 335 requests on a phone: scripts 2.7 MB (146), images 1.7 MB (42) and other files 765 KiB (116). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
12 images below the first screen load straight away
12 images further down the page (1.1 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
1 image far larger than shown
7 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example unnamed_c37236d7-f0df-4bb9-8c84-3a79c9360e74.jpg at 1,200 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 7 KiB.
4 images in older formats
4 images (413 KiB) 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.
About 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit
1.59 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.59 g of CO₂e: 191.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (1 element)
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
44 links without text
44 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 62 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
51 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Meta description is long (275 characters)
Your meta description is 275 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
7 links with vague text
7 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
244 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 244 pages on ilesformula.com and 5 external pages.
5 checks passed
Title: 54 characters
Your title is a healthy 54 characters: “Iles Formula | Luxury Hair Care Products & Hair Repair”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://ilesformula.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization.
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://ilesformula.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
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.
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 (856 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
/collections/new-arrivals has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
4 pages without an H1
/collections/new-arrivals, /collections/all, /collections/care-repair and /collections/styling 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 80 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://files.alia-prod.com/LogoRectanglecopy.webp-1761681117440.
5 JavaScript errors while loading
5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “An error has been thrown while configuring your widget AbortError: signal is aborted without reason AbortError: signal …”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
29 of 34 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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 (ilesformula.com).
Valid certificate (61 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for ilesformula.com and is valid for another 61 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://ilesformula.com 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 45 links work
All 45 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 5 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
ilesformula.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.
DNSSEC is off
ilesformula.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 12 years old
12 yearsilesformula.com was registered in Nov 2013 through Gandi SAS. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Nov 2027
ilesformula.com is registered until Nov 2027.
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 4 trust badges. 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.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
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 359 words of copy
The homepage carries about 359 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
8 calls to action
The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “SHOP”, “SHOP NOW” and “Shop now”.
6 short forms
6 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be ilesformula.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
No DKIM key on the usual selectors
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 score: 60/100
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.
1 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all”.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel 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.
25 cookies set on arrival
25Opening the homepage sets 25 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
57 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 57 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 13 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
Eg Auto Add To Cart · Elevar Conversion Tracking · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Mida Replay Heatmaps · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Okendo · Userway Website Accessibility · Madgic Checkout Validation · cloudfront.net · afterpay.com · useifsapp.com · rebuyengine.com · cart-bot.net
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
- Hosting
- Shopify
Hiring
- Hiring
- 1 open role
- Job board
- careers page
Company
- Headquarters
- New York
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 38 issues on ilesformula.com, including 18 speed issues, 4 SEO issues and 4 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
- 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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