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macsales.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 31 October 202631 issues · 89 checks
This review found 31 issues worth fixing on macsales.com, 4 of them high impact, across 89 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
89BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 128 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 123 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 126 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 132 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 136 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 134 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 134 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 132 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
0.7 s
1.4 s
2.1 s
2.8 s
3.5 s
4.2 s
4.9 s
5.6 s
Speed
3,713 HTML elements
The page has 3,713 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Mobile performance score: 72
72/100Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
310 ms · 550 KiBAbout 550 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
800 ms4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 800 ms.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
500 ms · 257 KiB16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (257 KiB).
Reduce unused CSS
310 ms · 55 KiBAbout 55 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.
10 long tasks on the main thread
10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 328 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Main-thread work: 2.7 s
A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Klaviyo adds 177 ms
177 msKlaviyo costs a phone 177 ms of main-thread work and 319 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.
owcnow.com adds 0 ms
0 msowcnow.com costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 399 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.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Hotjar and cdn-cookieyes.com and others), adding 885 KiB and 262 ms of main-thread time.
Legacy JavaScript
18 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 18 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify JavaScript
7 KiB7 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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: 25 ms
25 msYour server sent the HTML in 25 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
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.
Time to Interactive: 12.7 s
12.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 12.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 980 ms
980 msReal visitors wait 980 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.0 s
4.0 sYour largest element takes 4.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Total Blocking Time: 421 ms
421 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 421 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 4.6 s
4.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s
2.3 sThe first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
19 images without width and height
19 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 128 ms to 132 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+2%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 146 ms
146 msReal visitors wait 146 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: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.002
0.002The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.002, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.0 MB in 86 requests
2.0 MBYour homepage downloads 2.0 MB in 86 requests on a phone: scripts 1.2 MB (44), images 488 KiB (12) and HTML 104 KiB (1). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit
0.57 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.57 g of CO₂e: 68.7 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
101 tap targets too small
101 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 55 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
47 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 2 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: missing name”.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:title and og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
163 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 163 pages on macsales.com and 11 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 148 characters
Your meta description is 148 characters: “Upgrade your Apple devices with premium Apple Mac upgrades and computer products from MacSales.com. We also provide doc…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Upgrade the Performance of Nearly Any Mac”.
Title: 59 characters
Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Apple Mac Upgrades and Computer Products – RAM, SSDs & More”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://eshop.macsales.com/.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at http://eshop.macsales.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Some text only appears after JavaScript runs
35%The HTML your server sends has 1,318 of the 3,800 words a browser shows. AI crawlers don't run JavaScript, so they miss the rest.
No llms.txt
There is no https://eshop.macsales.com/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.
2 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 contact details; description would complete it.
Other pages
2 pages share a meta description
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/shipping and https://eshop.macsales.com/Service use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
4 pages slow to respond
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/shipping, https://eshop.macsales.com/business/creative-media, https://eshop.macsales.com/business/corporate and https://eshop.macsales.com/business/higher-education took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 59 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 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 14 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 distorted image
1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
30 of 34 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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.
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: 16 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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 3,800 words of copy
The homepage carries about 3,800 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
5 checks passed
20 calls to action
The homepage has 20 calls to action, for example “Join Today!”, “Order Status” and “Contact”.
4 short forms
4 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (CookieYes) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
8 cookies set on arrival
8Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
16 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: CookieYes
A consent management tool (CookieYes) loads with the page.
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 macsales.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Hosting
- Akamai
Company
- Employees
- 224
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