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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202618 issues · 74 checks

This review found 18 issues worth fixing on metal-plex.com, 7 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

92A

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Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.3 s1.3 sMay 23Nov 71.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.8 s
May 30, 20262.6 s
Jun 6, 20262.6 s
Jun 13, 20262.7 s
Jun 20, 20262.9 s
Jun 27, 20263.1 s
Jul 4, 20263.1 s
Jul 11, 20263.0 s
Jul 18, 20262.9 s
Jul 25, 20262.9 s
Aug 1, 20263.0 s
Aug 8, 20263.0 s
Aug 15, 20262.9 s
Aug 22, 20262.9 s
Aug 29, 20262.9 s
Sep 5, 20262.9 s
Sep 12, 20262.9 s
Sep 19, 20262.8 s
Sep 26, 20262.9 s
Oct 3, 20262.9 s
Oct 10, 20262.8 s
Oct 17, 20262.6 s
Oct 24, 20262.1 s
Oct 31, 20261.8 s
Nov 7, 20261.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
251 ms141 msMay 23Nov 7154 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026184 ms
May 30, 2026171 ms
Jun 6, 2026171 ms
Jun 13, 2026185 ms
Jun 20, 2026195 ms
Jun 27, 2026210 ms
Jul 4, 2026210 ms
Jul 11, 2026207 ms
Jul 18, 2026206 ms
Jul 25, 2026205 ms
Aug 1, 2026229 ms
Aug 8, 2026238 ms
Aug 15, 2026228 ms
Aug 22, 2026220 ms
Aug 29, 2026207 ms
Sep 5, 2026201 ms
Sep 12, 2026199 ms
Sep 19, 2026203 ms
Sep 26, 2026206 ms
Oct 3, 2026206 ms
Oct 10, 2026203 ms
Oct 17, 2026196 ms
Oct 24, 2026177 ms
Oct 31, 2026163 ms
Nov 7, 2026154 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

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Full-page screenshot of metal-plex.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. metal-plex.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. metal-plex.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. metal-plex.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  4. metal-plex.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  5. metal-plex.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  6. metal-plex.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  7. metal-plex.com at 3.9 s3.9 s
  8. metal-plex.com at 4.5 s4.5 s

Speed

3 to fix80

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.2 s

    9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 80

    80/100

    Your mobile performance score is 80. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 1,633 HTML elements

    The page has 1,633 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 42 KiB

    About 42 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 14 KiB

    4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (14 KiB).

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 84 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Improve image delivery

    60 KiB

    3 images could be 60 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (flash-speed.com, Shopify and shop.app and others), adding 267 KiB and 28 ms of main-thread time.

  • 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.

2 checks passed

  • Main-thread work: 1.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 132 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 13 ms

    13 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

2 to fix100

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 5.3 s

    5.3 s

    Your largest element takes 5.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 5.3 s

    5.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 5.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

12 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: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 131 ms

    131 ms

    Real visitors wait 131 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: 590 ms

    590 ms

    Real visitors wait 590 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 11% faster for real visitors

    -11%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 184 ms to 154 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 37% faster for real visitors

    -37%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Speed Index: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 2.6 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 65 ms

    65 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 65 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

100

  • About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.42 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.42 g of CO₂e: 50.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 checks passed

  • Page weight: 1.5 MB in 75 requests

    1.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.5 MB in 75 requests on a phone: images 735 KiB (33), scripts 371 KiB (25) and fonts 225 KiB (5). That is a lean page.

  • 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

6 to fixGoogle 8489

  • 28 tap targets too small

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

  • Links must have discernible text (8 elements)

    Links must have discernible text: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Hidden but focusable

    3 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (2 elements)

    Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 8 images without alt text

    8 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (3 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

1 checks passed

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 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 fixGoogle 9297

  • No social preview image

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

  • 180 internal links, 1 external

    The homepage links to 180 pages on metal-plex.com and 1 external page.

7 checks passed

  • Meta description: 154 characters

    Your meta description is 154 characters: “MetalPlex offers premium aluminum metal art and artwork for unique decor. Choose durable, handcrafted designs to add st…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “MetalPlex”.

  • Title: 47 characters

    Your title is a healthy 47 characters: “MetalPlex | Metal Art | Home Wall Decor Artwork”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.metal-plex.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: FAQPage.

  • 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.metal-plex.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88

  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

3 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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,392 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.metal-plex.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix88

  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    https://www.metal-plex.com/pages/custom-design is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 3 pages without a meta description

    https://www.metal-plex.com/collections/all, https://www.metal-plex.com/collections/dogs and https://www.metal-plex.com/collections/fathers-day have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 58 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.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093

  • 18 small tap targets

    18 of 55 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed

  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix86

  • No analytics detected

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

  • 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 864 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 864 words of visible text.

5 checks passed

  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP NOW” and “START A CUSTOM ORDER”.

  • 13 calls to action

    The homepage has 13 calls to action, for example “SHOP”, “Apply” and “Shop wall art”.

  • 4 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 45 testimonial or review blocks, 1 customer or partner logo, a star rating and “210,000+ happy customers”.

  • 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

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 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.

  • 4 other companies contacted

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

1 checks passed

  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

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 metal-plex.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 14 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Blockify Fraud Filter · Globo Mega Menu · Inbox · Nerdy Form Builder · Rebuy Personalization Engine · Region Restrictions · Omnisend · loox.io · nerdy-apps.com · cloudlift.app · littlebesidesme.com · afterpay.com · rebuyengine.com · pushowl.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

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Shopify

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