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kowality.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202629 issues · 102 checks
This review found 29 issues worth fixing on kowality.com, 7 of them high impact, across 102 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
86B- #8,607 of 88,168 reviewed websitesbeats 87%
- #4,893 of 45,710 online storesbeats 85%
- #4,726 of 40,991 Shopify storesbeats 83%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
kowality.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Improve image delivery
750 ms · 309 KiB13 images could be 309 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 63
63/100Your mobile performance score is 63. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 80 KiBAbout 80 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Main-thread work: 3.4 s
A phone's processor spends 3.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 932 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
6 long tasks on the main thread
6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 285 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
2,273 HTML elements
The page has 2,273 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (Marker, Shopify and Google Fonts and others), adding 440 KiB and 114 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
152 KiB6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (152 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
75 KiBAbout 75 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Duplicated JavaScript
15 KiB15 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
Minify CSS
10 KiB10 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: 10 ms
10 msYour server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.0 s
7.0 sYour largest element takes 7.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We and our partners, including Shopify, use cookies and oth…”.
Time to Interactive: 7.1 s
7.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 7.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 426 ms
426 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 426 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 4.4 s
4.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
1 image without width and height
1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
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: 0.9 s
0.9 sReal visitors wait 0.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 79 ms
79 msReal visitors wait 79 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: 0.5 s
0.5 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 313 ms
313 msReal visitors wait 313 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001
0.001The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.4 MB in 163 requests
2.4 MBYour homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 163 requests on a phone: images 981 KiB (24), other files 801 KiB (68) and scripts 386 KiB (46). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.69 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.69 g of CO₂e: 82.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
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
Hidden but focusable
12 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
6 tap targets too small
6 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)
Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
23 links without text
23 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 78 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
54 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 60 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 54 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (26 characters)
Your title is only 26 characters: “Kowalski Sausage Companies”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
159 internal links, 18 external
The homepage links to 159 pages on kowality.com and 18 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 159 characters
Your meta description is 159 characters: “Not only can you find our products in Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne county delis, grocery stores, and markets, you can als…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Kowality Since 1920”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://kowality.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: 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://kowality.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and contact details; sameAs (social profiles) and description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,390 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 title
/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
4 pages without a meta description
/collections/all, /collections/pierogi, /collections/merchandise and /customer_authentication/redirect have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
/customer_authentication/redirect has 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 69 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
3 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.
Best practices
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'dataset')”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
34 of 42 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.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://kowality.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en®ion_country=US.
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 (kowality.com).
Valid certificate (83 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for kowality.com and is valid for another 83 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://kowality.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 43 links work
All 43 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 3 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
kowality.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
kowality.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 29 years old
29 yearskowality.com was registered in Jan 1997 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Jan 2029
kowality.com is registered until Jan 2029.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 20 testimonial or review blocks. 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 opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 647 words of copy
The homepage carries about 647 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop Kielbasa”.
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Place an Order”, “Shop our products” and “Shop Kielbasa”.
12 short forms
12 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 4 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be kowality.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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.
2 checks passed
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:volusion.email a:smtp5.volusion.com ~all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “k1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
3 cookies set on arrival
3Opening the homepage sets 3 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).
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2015.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
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