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lifetimebrands.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202629 issues · 82 checks
This review found 29 issues worth fixing on lifetimebrands.com, 10 of them high impact, across 82 checks. The most urgent: avoid multiple page redirects. 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
82B- #26,253 of 93,206 reviewed websitesbeats 66%
- #16,585 of 49,724 online storesbeats 60%
- #15,983 of 44,884 Shopify storesbeats 57%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 74 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 73 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 71 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 82 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 81 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 82 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 83 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 83 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
0.5 s
1.0 s
1.5 s
2.0 s
2.5 s
3.0 s
3.6 s
4.1 s
Speed
Avoid multiple page redirects
6.8 sThe page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 6.8 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.
Main-thread work: 6.2 s
A phone's processor spends 6.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Mobile performance score: 60
60/100Your mobile performance score is 60. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
600 ms · 71 KiBAbout 71 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.
Improve image delivery
350 ms · 157 KiB5 images could be 157 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.
Shopify adds 465 ms
465 msShopify costs a phone 465 ms of main-thread work and 373 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.
6 third-party services on the page
6 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, nfcube.com and bunny.net and others), adding 519 KiB and 496 ms of main-thread time.
13 long tasks on the main thread
13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 183 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
12 KiBAbout 12 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
10 KiB6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (10 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.
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: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 12.5 s
12.5 sYour largest element takes 12.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 12.6 s
12.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 12.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 5.5 s
5.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 371 ms
371 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 371 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.1 s
2.1 sThe first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 14% slower for real visitors
+14%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 74 ms to 83 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 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: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 82 ms
82 msReal visitors wait 82 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: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 548 ms
548 msReal visitors wait 548 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.005
0.005The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.005, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.4 MB in 412 requests
3.4 MBYour homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 412 requests on a phone: other files 1.4 MB (270), images 814 KiB (16) and scripts 796 KiB (98). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
0.97 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.97 g of CO₂e: 116.0 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
11 text elements with low contrast
11 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Links must have discernible text (1 element)
Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
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.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
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.
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 15 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
44 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: 44 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (20 characters)
Your title is only 20 characters: “Lifetime Brands Home”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
10 links with vague text
10 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
109 internal links, 39 external
The homepage links to 109 pages on lifetimebrands.com and 39 external pages.
5 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Lifetime Brands, Inc”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://lifetimebrands.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization and WebSite.
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://lifetimebrands.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: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description; contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (754 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://lifetimebrands.com/llms.txt (5 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://lifetimebrands.com/collections has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
https://lifetimebrands.com/collections 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 44 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
5 small tap targets
5 of 12 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
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.
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.
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.
Phone number is not tap-to-call
Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 539 words of copy
The homepage carries about 539 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
11 calls to action
The homepage has 11 calls to action, for example “Stock Quote”, “IR + Media Contact” and “Info Request”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
7 cookies set on arrival
7Opening the homepage sets 7 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.
10 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 10 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 lifetimebrands.com, 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
Consentmo Gdpr · Smind Sections · Smind App · Gdpr Backpack · nfcube.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
Company
- Employees
- 771
- Headquarters
- Garden City
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 29 issues on lifetimebrands.com, including 11 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.
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