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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202616 issues · 59 checks

This review found 16 issues worth fixing on lvadgear.com, 6 of them high impact, across 59 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 6.8 MB. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.3 s1.9 sMay 23Nov 72.0 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.3 s
May 30, 20262.2 s
Jun 6, 20262.2 s
Jun 13, 20262.3 s
Jun 20, 20262.2 s
Jun 27, 20262.2 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20261.9 s
Jul 18, 20262.0 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20262.1 s
Aug 8, 20262.2 s
Aug 15, 20262.2 s
Aug 22, 20262.3 s
Aug 29, 20262.2 s
Sep 5, 20262.2 s
Sep 12, 20262.2 s
Sep 19, 20262.1 s
Sep 26, 20262.0 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20261.9 s
Oct 17, 20262.0 s
Oct 24, 20261.9 s
Oct 31, 20262.0 s
Nov 7, 20262.0 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
176 ms123 msMay 23Nov 7169 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026132 ms
May 30, 2026129 ms
Jun 6, 2026130 ms
Jun 13, 2026135 ms
Jun 20, 2026138 ms
Jun 27, 2026146 ms
Jul 4, 2026153 ms
Jul 11, 2026154 ms
Jul 18, 2026154 ms
Jul 25, 2026154 ms
Aug 1, 2026153 ms
Aug 8, 2026158 ms
Aug 15, 2026163 ms
Aug 22, 2026166 ms
Aug 29, 2026166 ms
Sep 5, 2026162 ms
Sep 12, 2026161 ms
Sep 19, 2026161 ms
Sep 26, 2026162 ms
Oct 3, 2026170 ms
Oct 10, 2026170 ms
Oct 17, 2026169 ms
Oct 24, 2026170 ms
Oct 31, 2026167 ms
Nov 7, 2026169 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

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

1 to fix100
  • Tap response (INP) got 29% slower for real visitors

    +29%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 132 ms to 169 ms 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 your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    Real visitors wait 2.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 170 ms

    170 ms

    Real visitors wait 170 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: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 657 ms

    657 ms

    Real visitors wait 657 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 12% faster for real visitors

    -12%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Images and page weight

4 to fix42
  • Page weight: 6.8 MB

    6.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 6.8 MB on a phone, 2.5 MB of it images (37%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 21 images in older formats

    21 images (1.8 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.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    hONORING_vETERANS_1.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).

  • 2 images far larger than shown

    22 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example hONORING_vETERANS_1.webp at 1,200 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 22 KiB.

  • About 1.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.93 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.93 g of CO₂e: 231.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

6 to fix92
  • 3 buttons without a name

    3 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 18 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 16 tap targets too small

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

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • 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.

  • 5 links without text

    5 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 87 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 53 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 59 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fix97
  • No social preview image

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

  • 214 internal links, 13 external

    The homepage links to 214 pages on lvadgear.com and 13 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “Shop high-quality LVAD shirts, vests, and accessories designed for comfort and support. Tailored to meet the needs of L…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “LVAD Friendly Clothing & Accessories: Move Freely with Confidence”.

  • Title: 50 characters

    Your title is a healthy 50 characters: “Premium LVAD Apparel & Accessories | LVAD Gear USA”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.lvadgear.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, OnlineStore, 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://www.lvadgear.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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: 6 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (3,428 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.lvadgear.com/llms.txt (8 KiB, 76 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 5 pages without an H1

    https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/all-products, https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/heartmate-products, https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/lvad-heartware-apparel-accessories, https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/lvad-shirts and https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/lvad-tank-tops have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 3 pages with very little text

    https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/all-products, https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/heartmate-products and https://www.lvadgear.com/collections/lvad-tank-tops have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 77 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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

1 to fix93
  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “merchantWidgetScript.addEventListener is not a function”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    71 of 77 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix83
  • 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 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 2,855 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 2,855 words of visible text.

  • Urgency cues

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

5 checks passed
  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Call Us (800) 606-4328”, “SHOP NOW” and “Contact Us”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block, a star rating, 7 trust badges and “50000+ Customers”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 5 phone links and 0 email links.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 2 mores (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 16 cookies set on arrival

    16

    Opening the homepage sets 16 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.

  • 40 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 40 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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 lvadgear.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 11 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Schema Plus For Seo · Google Youtube · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Redo · Okendo · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Tapita Seo Speed · Trymry · Forms · Essential Pre Order Presale · govx.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

Framework
Bootstrap
E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

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

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