molbaks.com website review

8 images could be 433 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

About 227 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 64 (desktop: 98). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 42 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Shopify costs a phone 60 ms of main-thread work and 350 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 (Shopify, Amazon Web Services and Google CDN and others), adding 719 KiB and 118 ms of main-thread time.

9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (36 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 29 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 79 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Desktop scores 98 but mobile only 64. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Your largest element takes 11.1 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 11.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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.

Your homepage downloads 2.8 MB in 333 requests on a phone: other files 1.0 MB (161), scripts 829 KiB (142) and images 796 KiB (14). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example The_Authentic_Garden_600x450.jpg at 515 px wide, shown at 150 px. Resized copies would save about 77 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.80 g of CO₂e: 96.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

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.

9 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h4, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Molbak's Garden and Home” and “Let's love our homes & gardens”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

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

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

The homepage links to 45 pages on molbaks.com and 0 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), 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://molbaks.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

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

https://molbaks.com/collections, https://molbaks.com/pages/introducing-trellis-by-molbaks, https://molbaks.com/customer_authentication/redirect, https://molbaks.com/collections/all, https://molbaks.com/policies/privacy-policy and https://molbaks.com/policies/terms-of-service and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://molbaks.com/pages/molbaks-bookshelf and https://molbaks.com/customer_authentication/redirect have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 18 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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

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 143 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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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 7 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 14 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.