mccauley.dev website review

Your mobile performance score is 89. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.

The page has 1,900 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (197 KiB).

About 164 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Yotpo, Shopify and shop.app), adding 263 KiB and 100 ms of main-thread time.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 88 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.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 2.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Gift Card”. Most of its time is resource load delay (3.7 s).

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.36 g of CO₂e: 42.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 19 characters: “awesomeguitars12345”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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 13 pages on mccauley.dev and 1 external page.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

https://mccauley.dev/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

https://mccauley.dev/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://mccauley.dev/customer_authentication/redirect and https://mccauley.dev/products/electric-guitar have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://mccauley.dev/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 5 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

4 of 14 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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 ()”.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 53 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

Opening the homepage sets 6 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 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.