lightsfordecorators.com website review

About 376 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.

14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (200 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 48. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

14 images could be 1.4 MB 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.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (hsappstatic.net, Hubspot and Key CDN and others), adding 1.2 MB and 534 ms of main-thread time.

About 70 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.

9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

hsappstatic.net costs a phone 290 ms of main-thread work and 720 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.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 176 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

12 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

The first text or image appears after 11.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 17.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Professional lighting installation”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 17.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 11.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

The layout shifts by 0.169 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 71 ms to 71 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.8 MB in 219 requests on a phone: images 2.4 MB (16), scripts 1.3 MB (63) and other files 801 KiB (113). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

hero-twilight-plaza.webp weighs 496 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

hero-streetscape-gazebo.webp 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 (1.1 MB) 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.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example hero-twilight-plaza.webp at 1,254 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 212 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.37 g of CO₂e: 164.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 elements use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 16 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

The homepage links to 67 pages on lightsfordecorators.com and 4 external pages.

https://lightsfordecorators.com/collections/low-voltage-landscape-lighting, https://lightsfordecorators.com/collections/all, https://lightsfordecorators.com/pages/warranty and https://lightsfordecorators.com/pages/faqs have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 of 22 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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.

Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 439 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

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

Opening the homepage sets 19 cookies, 9 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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