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madhippie.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202630 issues · 78 checks
This review found 30 issues worth fixing on madhippie.com, 8 of them high impact, across 78 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
85B- #14,451 of 105,500 reviewed websitesbeats 82%
- #9,134 of 59,269 online storesbeats 79%
- #8,882 of 54,010 Shopify storesbeats 78%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.5 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 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 105 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 110 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 110 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 112 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 115 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 154 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 158 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
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.5 s · 415 KiBAbout 415 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.5 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 61
61/100Your mobile performance score is 61. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Clarity and others), adding 2.9 MB and 531 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
650 ms · 149 KiB14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (149 KiB).
Improve image delivery
50 ms · 311 KiB11 images could be 311 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
300 ms · 56 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 56 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Main-thread work: 2.8 s
A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 961 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Shopify adds 27 ms
27 msShopify costs a phone 27 ms of main-thread work and 2.1 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.
Reduce unused CSS
170 ms · 17 KiBAbout 17 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 170 ms faster on a phone.
4 long tasks on the main thread
4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 168 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Minify JavaScript
150 ms · 14 KiB14 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Duplicated JavaScript
50 ms · 8 KiB8 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.
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: 14 ms
14 msYour server sent the HTML in 14 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 16.2 s
16.2 sYour largest element takes 16.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Time to Interactive: 16.5 s
16.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 16.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.6 s
6.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 3.3 s
3.3 sThe first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 49% slower for real visitors
+49%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 158 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 41% slower for real visitors
+41%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 2.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 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: 1.7 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: 112 ms
112 msReal visitors wait 112 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: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 749 ms
749 msReal visitors wait 749 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 160 ms
160 msScripts block the page for only 160 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.9 MB in 277 requests
4.9 MBYour homepage downloads 4.9 MB in 277 requests on a phone: media 2.0 MB (1), scripts 1.2 MB (109) and other files 800 KiB (119). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.4 g of CO₂ per visit
1.40 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.40 g of CO₂e: 167.7 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
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate 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.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 45 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 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 4 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (70 characters)
Your title is 70 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Mad Hippie | Skincare, Sunscreen & Cosmetics | Natural, Organic Beauty”.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“.logo--image { height: auto; width: 201px; } @med…” and “Wrinkle Relaxing Eye Treatment”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
3 links with vague text
3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
81 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 81 pages on madhippie.com and 0 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 139 characters
Your meta description is 139 characters: “Active-rich solutions to simplify your skincare routine. Clean formulas free from animal ingredients, parabens, synthet…”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://madhippie.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
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://madhippie.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Opted out of AI training for 1 crawler
robots.txt blocks CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.
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 (491 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://madhippie.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
10 pages without a meta description
https://madhippie.com/collections/shop-all, https://madhippie.com/collections/routines, https://madhippie.com/pages/mad-hippie-skincare-quiz, https://madhippie.com/pages/routine-builder, https://madhippie.com/pages/results and https://madhippie.com/pages/our-skin-care-philosophy and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
3 pages without an H1
https://madhippie.com/collections/routines, https://madhippie.com/collections/suncare and https://madhippie.com/pages/results have 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 33 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
6 small tap targets
6 of 20 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
1 checks passed
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 10 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
About 314 words of copy
The homepage carries about 314 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Shop All”, “Contact Us” and “Shop all skincare”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before 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.
24 cookies set on arrival
24Opening the homepage sets 24 cookies, 4 of them by other companies (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.
48 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 48 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 madhippie.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 12 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Essential Announcer · Eg Auto Add To Cart · Judge Me Reviews · Epsilon Tag Integration · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Essential Announcement Bar · amazonaws.com · closeby.co · herokuapp.com · cloudfront.net · b-cdn.net · dailykarma.io
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
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- Austin
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 30 issues on madhippie.com, including 14 speed issues, 3 SEO issues and 3 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.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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