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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202648 issues · 91 checks
This review found 48 issues worth fixing on interiordesign.net, 18 of them high impact, across 91 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
65DClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.3 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 123 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 127 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 142 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
1.7 s
3.3 s
5.0 s
6.6 s
8.3 s
9.9 s
11.6 s
13.2 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
5.1 s · 1.4 MBAbout 1.4 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.1 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
3.1 s13 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.1 s.
Improve image delivery
1.6 s · 1.0 MB14 images could be 1.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.1 s · 580 KiB28 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (580 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 23
23/100Your mobile performance score is 23. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 10.0 s
A phone's processor spends 10.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 6.4 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, Google CDN and spotifycdn.com and others), adding 3.5 MB and 3.6 s of main-thread time.
Google CDN adds 852 ms
852 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 852 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 MB 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 889 ms
889 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 889 ms of main-thread work and 511 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.
spotifycdn.com adds 573 ms
573 msspotifycdn.com costs a phone 573 ms of main-thread work and 716 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 409 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Hubspot adds 335 ms
335 msHubspot costs a phone 335 ms of main-thread work and 326 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.
Facebook adds 331 ms
331 msFacebook costs a phone 331 ms of main-thread work and 247 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.
Legacy JavaScript
300 ms · 49 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 49 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
84 KiBAbout 84 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
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: 5 ms
5 msYour server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
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.
First Contentful Paint: 9.5 s
9.5 sThe first text or image appears after 9.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 18.1 s
18.1 sYour largest element takes 18.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “People dining at a long outdoor table decorated with stacks…”.
Time to Interactive: 33.6 s
33.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 33.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 12.1 s
12.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 12.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 2.7 s
2.7 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 2.7 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user LCP: 2.5 s
2.5 sReal visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.12
0.12For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 851 ms
851 msReal visitors wait 851 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.107
0.107The layout shifts by 0.107 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
2 images without width and height
2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) got 15% slower for real visitors
+15%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 123 ms to 142 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+2%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
1 checks passed
Real-user INP: 159 ms
159 msReal visitors wait 159 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 6.1 MB in 203 requests
6.1 MBYour homepage downloads 6.1 MB in 203 requests on a phone: scripts 3.4 MB (69), images 1.5 MB (37) and other files 616 KiB (63). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
1D8A2573-2-768x512.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
8 images in older formats
8 images (611 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 1.7 g of CO₂ per visit
1.73 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.73 g of CO₂e: 207.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
4 tap targets too small
4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
2 text elements with low contrast
2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails 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.
Hidden but focusable
1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
1 checks passed
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 59 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 7 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (76 characters)
Your title is 76 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Interior Design Magazine | Top Projects, Products & Trends - Interior Design”.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“design conversations” and “showroom showcase”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
59 internal links, 26 external
The homepage links to 59 pages on interiordesign.net and 26 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 149 characters
Your meta description is 149 characters: “Interior Design is the global, industry-leading design magazine publication, website and events company serving the arc…”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://interiordesign.net/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ImageObject, WebPage 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://interiordesign.net/sitemap_index.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.
No llms.txt
There is no https://interiordesign.net/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.
2 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 (369 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://interiordesign.net/issues/october-2026 has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
6 pages without an H1
https://interiordesign.net/products, https://interiordesign.net/designwire, https://interiordesign.net/homes, https://interiordesign.net/showroom-showcase, https://interiordesign.net/jobs and https://interiordesign.net/issues/october-2026 have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
2 pages with very little text
https://interiordesign.net/showroom-showcase and https://interiordesign.net/jobs 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.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 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 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
38 of 47 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
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 415 words of copy
The homepage carries about 415 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SUBSCRIBE” and “CONTACT US”.
5 calls to action
The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Subscribe”, “Contact Us” and “subscribe”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and LinkedIn Insight and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Osano) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
16 cookies set on arrival
16Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
51 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 51 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: Osano
A consent management tool (Osano) loads with the page.
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 interiordesign.net, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
Company
- Founded
- 1932
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