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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202633 issues · 79 checks

This review found 33 issues worth fixing on mugempire.com, 8 of them high impact, across 79 checks. The most urgent: 1 button without a name. 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. mugempire.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. mugempire.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. mugempire.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. mugempire.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. mugempire.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. mugempire.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. mugempire.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. mugempire.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

4 to fix69
  • Mobile performance score: 69

    69/100

    Your mobile performance score is 69. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    750 ms · 132 KiB

    About 132 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    750 ms · 113 KiB

    8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (113 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    500 ms

    8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Yotpo, Google CDN and Shopify and others), adding 375 KiB and 84 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    38 KiB

    About 38 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    9 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 9 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

  • Minify CSS

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 0.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 209 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.5 s

    9.5 s

    Your largest element takes 9.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “2018 The Year I Marry The Most Awesome And Smokin' Hot Girl…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.8 s

    9.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • 51 images without width and height

    51 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Speed Index: 5.0 s

    5.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

2 checks passed
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix78
  • Page weight: 2.6 MB in 214 requests

    2.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 214 requests on a phone: images 1.2 MB (53), other files 830 KiB (109) and scripts 370 KiB (42). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 36 images below the first screen load straight away

    36 images further down the page (952 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.73 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.73 g of CO₂e: 87.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

8 to fixGoogle 7686
  • 1 button without a name

    1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 50 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 2 tap targets too small

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (53 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 53 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 link without text

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

  • Headings skip levels

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 51 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 30 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 38 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 30 passed and 8 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9276
  • No meta description

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

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Open Graph partly set

    Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 63 internal links, 1 external

    The homepage links to 63 pages on mugempire.com and 1 external page.

4 checks passed
  • Title: 47 characters

    Your title is a healthy 47 characters: “MUG Empire - Great Gifts, Great Fun, Great Mugs”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://mugempire.com/.

  • 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://mugempire.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 (721 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

3 to fix88
  • 4 pages without a meta description

    https://mugempire.com/collections/all, https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/2018-the-year-i-marry-the-most-awesome-and-smokin-hot-girl-alive, https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/all-you-need-is-love and https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/2018-the-year-i-marry-the-most-amazing-man-alive have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 7 pages share a meta description

    https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/out-of-all-the-grand-kids, https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/im-a-math-teacher, https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/all-i-care-about-are-my-cats-and-like-maybe-3-people, https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/cats-make-me-happy, https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/i-am-silently-correcting-your-grammar and https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/the-best-nurses-are-classy-sassy-and-a-bit-smart-assy and 1 other use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 13 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 13 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://mugempire.com/collections/best-selling/products/2018-the-year-i-marry-the-most-awesome-and-smokin-hot-girl-alive, whose canonical is https://mugempire.com/products/2018-the-year-i-marry-the-most-awesome-and-smokin-hot-girl-alive. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 55 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).

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    12 of 13 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

5 to fix63
  • No call to action on the first screen

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

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • 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 opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 644 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 644 words of visible text.

  • Urgency cues

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

3 checks passed
  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Track Order”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 50 testimonial or review blocks and 1 trust badge.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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.

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 18 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 18 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 mugempire.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

gdprbuster.com · abandonedguru.com · redretarget.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

Stack

Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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