lightingdesign.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 80. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 850 ms.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Judge.me and squarecdn.com and others), adding 1.9 MB and 560 ms of main-thread time.

Shopify costs a phone 407 ms of main-thread work and 1.6 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.

13 images could be 408 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

About 260 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

3 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (221 KiB).

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 185 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 21 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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.

Your largest element takes 4.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Faux cypress garland on white background”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 144 ms to 137 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 128 requests on a phone: images 1.0 MB (15), scripts 817 KiB (74) and other files 85 KiB (32). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

Onda_HL699102-AGB_Design_Curated_Nest_3_-1201x800-5b2df79_1. 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).

7 images (259 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.58 g of CO₂e: 70.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Your title is 95 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Home | Explore Top Lighting Solutions | Salt Lake City, UT & Arizona Location | Lighting …”.

The homepage links to 207 pages on lightingdesign.com and 8 external pages.

There is no /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.

/collections/best-sellers, /blogs/projects and /collections/new-arrivals use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 128 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://lightingdesign.com/account/wishlist.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

lightingdesign.com is registered until Jan 2027. Make sure auto-renew is on and the card on file is current.

lightingdesign.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.

lightingdesign.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.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

The homepage carries about 373 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be lightingdesign.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.