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kappa.com.au website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202629 issues · 77 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on kappa.com.au, 10 of them high impact, across 77 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.6 s1.3 sMay 16Oct 311.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.5 s
May 23, 20261.4 s
May 30, 20261.5 s
Jun 6, 20261.5 s
Jun 13, 20261.5 s
Jun 20, 20261.5 s
Jun 27, 20261.5 s
Jul 4, 20261.5 s
Jul 11, 20261.5 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.4 s
Aug 1, 20261.4 s
Aug 8, 20261.4 s
Aug 15, 20261.4 s
Aug 22, 20261.4 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.4 s
Sep 12, 20261.4 s
Sep 19, 20261.4 s
Sep 26, 20261.3 s
Oct 3, 20261.4 s
Oct 10, 20261.4 s
Oct 17, 20261.4 s
Oct 24, 20261.4 s
Oct 31, 20261.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
98 ms79 msMay 16Oct 3196 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202681 ms
May 23, 202683 ms
May 30, 202685 ms
Jun 6, 202687 ms
Jun 13, 202685 ms
Jun 20, 202687 ms
Jun 27, 202687 ms
Jul 4, 202687 ms
Jul 11, 202685 ms
Jul 18, 202687 ms
Jul 25, 202687 ms
Aug 1, 202688 ms
Aug 8, 202691 ms
Aug 15, 202689 ms
Aug 22, 202690 ms
Aug 29, 202688 ms
Sep 5, 202688 ms
Sep 12, 202688 ms
Sep 19, 202688 ms
Sep 26, 202688 ms
Oct 3, 202689 ms
Oct 10, 202689 ms
Oct 17, 202694 ms
Oct 24, 202696 ms
Oct 31, 202696 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

Full-page screenshot of kappa.com.au (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. kappa.com.au at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. kappa.com.au at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. kappa.com.au at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. kappa.com.au at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. kappa.com.au at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. kappa.com.au at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. kappa.com.au at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. kappa.com.au at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

8 to fix56
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.6 s · 324 KiB

    About 324 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.0 s

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 56

    56/100

    Your mobile performance score is 56. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    820 ms · 159 KiB

    About 159 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 820 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify CSS

    670 ms · 106 KiB

    106 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and iubenda and others), adding 1.0 MB and 553 ms of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    100 ms · 539 KiB

    17 images could be 539 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 100 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 369 ms

    369 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 369 ms of main-thread work and 493 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.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 195 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    50 ms · 32 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 32 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    15 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (15 KiB).

  • 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: 1.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 757 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 16.5 s

    16.5 s

    Your largest element takes 16.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Pants_Unisex_222 BANDA SEBASTIAN_Sport Trousers_Black - Whi…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 16.7 s

    16.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.7 s

    3.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 281 ms

    281 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 281 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 17% slower for real visitors

    +17%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 81 ms to 96 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.4 s 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 this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 95 ms

    95 ms

    Real visitors wait 95 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: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 652 ms

    652 ms

    Real visitors wait 652 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.9 MB in 205 requests

    2.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 205 requests on a phone: scripts 1.0 MB (66), images 987 KiB (34) and other files 761 KiB (98). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.83 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.83 g of CO₂e: 99.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • 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

5 to fixGoogle 9194
  • Unlabelled dropdowns

    1 dropdown has no label.

  • 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.

  • 3 links without text

    3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (6 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 47 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 4 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 fixGoogle 8584
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • 99 internal links, 8 external

    The homepage links to 99 pages on kappa.com.au and 8 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Kappa Australia AU”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Kappa Australia: Uniting Sport and Style with Iconic Activewear”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://kappa.com.au/.

  • 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.kappa.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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 (512 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://kappa.com.au/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 15 pages without a meta description

    https://kappa.com.au/collections/all-kappa, https://kappa.com.au/collections/kappa-tees, https://kappa.com.au/collections/mens-kappa-hoodies, https://kappa.com.au/collections/footwear, https://kappa.com.au/collections/the-iconic-banda and https://kappa.com.au/collections/kappa-accessories and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 14 pages without an H1

    https://kappa.com.au/collections/all-kappa, https://kappa.com.au/collections/kappa-tees, https://kappa.com.au/collections/mens-kappa-hoodies, https://kappa.com.au/collections/footwear, https://kappa.com.au/collections/the-iconic-banda and https://kappa.com.au/collections/pro-team and 8 others 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 50 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 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Unexpected token 'export'”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    26 of 28 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix58
  • 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.

  • 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 731 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 731 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Shop All”, “Sign up and save” and “icon-email Subscribe”.

  • 3 short forms

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (iubenda) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 13 cookies set on arrival

    13

    Opening the homepage sets 13 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 27 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 27 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: iubenda

    A consent management tool (iubenda) 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 kappa.com.au, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 2 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Gtm Data Layer · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms

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

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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