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midriftband.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202623 issues · 72 checks
This review found 23 issues worth fixing on midriftband.com, 6 of them high impact, across 72 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
78C- #48,816 of 96,084 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #30,598 of 51,972 online storesbeats 36%
- #29,139 of 47,068 Shopify storesbeats 33%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 101 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 103 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
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
4,300 HTML elements
The page has 4,300 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Mobile performance score: 80
80/100Your mobile performance score is 80. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
600 ms10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.
Shopify adds 86 ms
86 msShopify costs a phone 86 ms of main-thread work and 528 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 (Shopify, 9gtb.com and seated.com and others), adding 617 KiB and 126 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
67 KiBAbout 67 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 60 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Use efficient cache lifetimes
30 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (30 KiB).
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: 1.3 s
A phone's processor spends 1.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 415 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 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.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.8 s
4.8 sYour largest element takes 4.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Real-user CLS: 0.12
0.12For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Time to Interactive: 7.0 s
7.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 7.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 101 ms to 103 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user LCP: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 13% faster for real visitors
-13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.099
0.099The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.099, good is under 0.1).
Speed Index: 2.8 s
2.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.8 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 5 ms
5 msScripts block the page for only 5 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit
0.53 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.53 g of CO₂e: 63.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.9 MB in 231 requests
1.9 MBYour homepage downloads 1.9 MB in 231 requests on a phone: other files 874 KiB (129), scripts 352 KiB (51) and fonts 292 KiB (1). 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
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.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (2 elements)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 19 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 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (7 characters)
Your title is only 7 characters: “Midrift”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
57 internal links, 14 external
The homepage links to 57 pages on midriftband.com and 14 external pages.
5 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://midriftband.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.
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://midriftband.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,593 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://midriftband.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
9 pages without a meta description
https://midriftband.com/collections/all, https://midriftband.com/policies/shipping-policy, https://midriftband.com/pages/tour, https://midriftband.com/collections/music, https://midriftband.com/collections/apparel and https://midriftband.com/collections/accessories and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
8 pages without an H1
https://midriftband.com/collections/all, https://midriftband.com/pages/tour, https://midriftband.com/collections/music, https://midriftband.com/collections/apparel, https://midriftband.com/collections/accessories and https://midriftband.com/pages/contact and 2 others 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 26 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
4 small tap targets
4 of 13 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
1 JavaScript error while loading
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 ()”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
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.
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 284 words of copy
The homepage carries about 284 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “listen/buy here”.
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “shop”, “contact” and “listen/buy here”.
4 short forms
4 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Meta Pixel (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.
12 cookies set on arrival
12Opening the homepage sets 12 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.
19 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 19 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 midriftband.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 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Schedule It · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Loop Returns
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
- Gatsby
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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