musclesquad.com website review

12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

Your mobile performance score is 25. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 9.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Shopify and others), adding 2.1 MB and 1.9 s of main-thread time.

About 893 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

54 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (713 KiB).

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 676 ms of main-thread work and 688 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.

30 images could be 475 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

About 151 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 397 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Shopify costs a phone 293 ms of main-thread work and 660 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.

Facebook costs a phone 311 ms of main-thread work and 286 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.

The page has 2,318 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

18 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Polyfills for old browsers add 58 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

8 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

7 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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.

Your largest element takes 10.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “MuscleSquad”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 33.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.4 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The layout shifts by 0.305 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.22 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 173 ms to 210 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

The first text or image appears after 2.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 6.6 MB in 472 requests on a phone: scripts 2.7 MB (130), images 2.4 MB (102) and other files 1.1 MB (198). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

9 images further down the page (448 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example d8bd34dcf1ad8c6cf6d86a3d2b570b09.png at 1,440 px wide, shown at 350 px. Resized copies would save about 55 KiB.

4 images (155 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.88 g of CO₂e: 225.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Some list items are not inside a list.

<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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

The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h4 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

The homepage links to 222 pages on musclesquad.com and 16 external pages.

https://musclesquad.com/pages/winter-sale-2025 has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 133 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://lantern.roeye.com/track.php?fingerprint=b004b04a-7350-4cd2-b5a4-a3df16b22c60&referrer=&landingpage=https%3A%2F%2Fmusclesquad.com%2F&useragent=Mozilla%2F5.0%20(iPhone%3B%20CPU%20iPhone%20OS%201.

10 of 47 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

3 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “gtag is not defined”.

1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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

Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

The homepage carries about 944 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Klaviyo and 2 mores (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 19 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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 64 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.