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mycigarbox.com website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202615 issues · 83 checks

This review found 15 issues worth fixing on mycigarbox.com, 2 of them high impact, across 83 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 mycigarbox.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

mycigarbox.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

4 to fix99
  • Render-blocking requests

    800 ms

    17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 800 ms.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    385 KiB

    About 385 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Google Tag Manager and Unpkg and others), adding 1.1 MB and 246 ms of main-thread time.

  • Shopify adds 94 ms

    94 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 94 ms of main-thread work and 821 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.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 90 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    28 KiB

    5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (28 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    23 KiB

    About 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 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 JavaScript

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

3 checks passed
  • Mobile performance score: 99

    99/100

    Your mobile performance score is 99. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 1.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 551 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 8 ms

    8 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

2 to fix100
  • Time to Interactive: 5.6 s

    5.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 5.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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.

4 checks passed
  • 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.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Your largest element renders in 1.2 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “WHOA, YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD FOR YOUR AGE.”.

  • Total Blocking Time: 40 ms

    40 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 40 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix81
  • Page weight: 2.6 MB in 314 requests

    2.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 314 requests on a phone: other files 1.1 MB (160), scripts 969 KiB (106) and images 250 KiB (17). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    hero-img1b_d2a4ac39-3fef-4280-bbeb-3829b874adf9.png is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.74 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.74 g of CO₂e: 89.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 9296
  • 1 button without a name

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (7 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail 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.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 23 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 44 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 3 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • 26 internal links, 10 external

    The homepage links to 26 pages on mycigarbox.com and 10 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 140 characters

    Your meta description is 140 characters: “Handpicked premium cigars delivered monthly. Choose 3, 6, or 10 cigars curated by experts. Free shipping, Boveda pack i…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “My Cigar Box”.

  • Title: 63 characters

    Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “Premium Cigar Subscription Box — Curated Monthly | My Cigar Box”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://mycigarbox.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.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://mycigarbox.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (582 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 4 pages without a meta description

    /policies/shipping-policy, /policies/refund-policy, /policies/terms-of-service and /policies/privacy-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 12 internal pages checked

    We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    11 pages of 12 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.

  • 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 11 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9292
  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error: <rect> attribute transform: Expected number, "matrix(NaN,NaN,NaN,NaN,…".”.

  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • 1 link through redirect chains

    1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://mycigarbox.com/customer_authentication/redirect?locale=en&region_country=US.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (mycigarbox.com).

  • Valid certificate (51 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for mycigarbox.com and is valid for another 51 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://mycigarbox.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 20 links work

    All 20 links checked from your homepage (14 internal, 6 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    mycigarbox.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

Content and conversion

1 to fix86
  • 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.

  • About 338 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 338 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact Us” and “Sign Up”.

  • 3 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 52 testimonial or review blocks, 6 customer or partner logos, a star rating and 4 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

95
  • Email authentication score: 95/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

3 checks passed
  • DMARC policy: reject

    DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Snap Pixel and 1 more (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.

  • 19 cookies set on arrival

    19

    Opening the homepage sets 19 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.

  • 27 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 27 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.

Apps your storefront loads

Instaindex · Yotpo Product Reviews · Judge Me Reviews · Inbox · Forms · Applovin Shop Integration · rechargecdn.com · snapchat.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

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Shopify

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

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