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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202617 issues · 73 checks

This review found 17 issues worth fixing on katanas.mx, 7 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
1.7 s1.4 sMay 16Oct 311.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.6 s
May 23, 20261.5 s
May 30, 20261.5 s
Jun 6, 20261.4 s
Jun 13, 20261.4 s
Jun 20, 20261.4 s
Jun 27, 20261.4 s
Jul 4, 20261.4 s
Jul 11, 20261.4 s
Jul 18, 20261.5 s
Jul 25, 20261.5 s
Aug 1, 20261.5 s
Aug 8, 20261.5 s
Aug 15, 20261.5 s
Aug 22, 20261.4 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.5 s
Sep 12, 20261.5 s
Sep 19, 20261.5 s
Sep 26, 20261.5 s
Oct 3, 20261.5 s
Oct 10, 20261.5 s
Oct 17, 20261.5 s
Oct 24, 20261.5 s
Oct 31, 20261.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
105 ms89 msMay 16Oct 3191 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026103 ms
May 23, 202698 ms
May 30, 202699 ms
Jun 6, 202696 ms
Jun 13, 202695 ms
Jun 20, 202695 ms
Jun 27, 202695 ms
Jul 4, 202696 ms
Jul 11, 202695 ms
Jul 18, 202697 ms
Jul 25, 2026101 ms
Aug 1, 2026100 ms
Aug 8, 2026102 ms
Aug 15, 202699 ms
Aug 22, 202699 ms
Aug 29, 202699 ms
Sep 5, 202698 ms
Sep 12, 2026102 ms
Sep 19, 202699 ms
Sep 26, 202698 ms
Oct 3, 2026101 ms
Oct 10, 202699 ms
Oct 17, 202698 ms
Oct 24, 202693 ms
Oct 31, 202691 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 katanas.mx (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. katanas.mx at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. katanas.mx at 1.2 s1.2 s
  3. katanas.mx at 1.8 s1.8 s
  4. katanas.mx at 2.4 s2.4 s
  5. katanas.mx at 3.0 s3.0 s
  6. katanas.mx at 3.6 s3.6 s
  7. katanas.mx at 4.2 s4.2 s
  8. katanas.mx at 4.9 s4.9 s

Speed

5 to fix61
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.1 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

  • 3,031 HTML elements

    The page has 3,031 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 61

    61/100

    Your mobile performance score is 61. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    600 ms · 168 KiB

    About 168 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 22 KiB

    About 22 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, loox.io and Hexton and others), adding 394 KiB and 234 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 39 KiB

    5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (39 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    99 KiB

    6 images could be 99 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 60 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 429 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 9 ms

    9 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 9 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.3 s

    10.3 s

    Your largest element takes 10.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “katana.store”.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.5 s

    4.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.5 s

    10.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.1 s

    6.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -8%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 91 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

8 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: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 89 ms

    89 ms

    Real visitors wait 89 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: 661 ms

    661 ms

    Real visitors wait 661 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).

  • Total Blocking Time: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 2 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix83
  • Page weight: 2.4 MB in 155 requests

    2.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 155 requests on a phone: images 1.1 MB (32), other files 666 KiB (71) and scripts 426 KiB (36). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    katana-email_b286e61c-dccf-4439-9930-dc090a5121bc.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).

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (117 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.

  • 2 images below the first screen load straight away

    2 images further down the page (45 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.68 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.68 g of CO₂e: 81.8 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 are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

1 to fixGoogle 9499
  • Zoom is disabled

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

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 57 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 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • 118 internal links, 8 external

    The homepage links to 118 pages on katanas.mx and 8 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 124 characters

    Your meta description is 124 characters: “Find out the best quality katanas hand forged and functional. A traditional sword worn by the Samurai. ✓Worldwide Shipp…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Katana”.

  • Title: 53 characters

    Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “Katana: Hand Forged Katana Swords and Japanese Swords”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://katana.store/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, 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://katana.store/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, 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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://katana.store/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 (5,361 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 60 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

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

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 7 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 14 small tap targets

    14 of 33 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • 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 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 492 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 492 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Track my order”, “Contact” and “Subscribe”.

  • 5 short forms

    5 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block and a star rating.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 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.

  • 7 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

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 katanas.mx, 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 5 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Super Video Ugc · Event Promotion Bar · loox.io · hextom.com · goaffpro.com

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
Hosting
Shopify

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

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