makershed.com website review

About 371 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.

5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

The page has 4,161 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

10 images could be 432 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (98 KiB).

A phone's processor spends 3.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 811 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

vitals.app costs a phone 192 ms of main-thread work and 303 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 load with your homepage (vitals.app, Google Tag Manager and Shopify and others), adding 753 KiB and 464 ms of main-thread time.

About 31 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 24 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 162 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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.

Your largest element takes 12.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 12.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 130 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Visually, the page fills in at 3.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.7 MB in 242 requests on a phone: images 1.7 MB (35), scripts 948 KiB (61) and other files 858 KiB (132). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

Make_Electronics_3rd_1800x2338_0b80e1d4-3538-4ffe-8011-9824a 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).

1 image (31 KiB) is 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 1.04 g of CO₂e: 125.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is 276 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 419 pages on makershed.com and 36 external pages.

/products/make-magazine-volume-99 and /collections/make-magazine/products/make-magazine-volume-99 all use the title “Board Guide 2027 – Make: Volume 99 Magazine”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

/collections/make-projects has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/products/make-magazine-volume-99 and /collections/make-magazine/products/make-magazine-volume-99 use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

Your homepage links to 3 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /collections/make-magazine/products/make-complete-ebook-collection-pdfs, whose canonical is /products/make-complete-ebook-collection-pdfs. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/pages/maker-shed-gift-guide has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 129 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

2 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://instagram.com/makemagazine.

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.

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

makershed.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.

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 747 words of visible text.

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

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be makershed.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Pinterest Tag and 1 more (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.

Opening the homepage sets 17 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 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.