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nowalchemy.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202627 issues · 73 checks
This review found 27 issues worth fixing on nowalchemy.com, 11 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
76C- #60,153 of 98,119 reviewed websitesbeats 34%
- #37,229 of 53,524 online storesbeats 26%
- #35,194 of 48,541 Shopify storesbeats 23%
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Speed
Use efficient cache lifetimes
2.9 s · 438 KiB25 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (438 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.1 s · 419 KiBAbout 419 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.1 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 48
48/100Your mobile performance score is 48. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 4.7 s
A phone's processor spends 4.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,392 HTML elements
The page has 3,392 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (recurringo.com, Shopify and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 1.4 MB and 804 ms of main-thread time.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
Legacy JavaScript
300 ms · 28 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 28 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Shopify adds 163 ms
163 msShopify costs a phone 163 ms of main-thread work and 446 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.
9 long tasks on the main thread
9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 206 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 38 KiBAbout 38 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Improve image delivery
147 KiB4 images could be 147 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Minify JavaScript
45 KiB45 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Duplicated JavaScript
13 KiB13 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
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.
Minify CSS
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 9 ms
9 msYour server sent the HTML in 9 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 15.9 s
15.9 sYour largest element takes 15.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “24K ORMUS Gold - Now Alchemy”.
Time to Interactive: 16.5 s
16.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 16.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 5.1 s
5.1 sThe first text or image appears after 5.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 7.4 s
7.4 sVisually, the page fills in at 7.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 426 ms
426 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 426 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
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.
1 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.5 MB in 446 requests
3.5 MBYour homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 446 requests on a phone: scripts 1.6 MB (154), other files 1.0 MB (206) and images 568 KiB (41). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
24k-ormus-gold-4816018.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 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
0.98 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.98 g of CO₂e: 117.9 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
39 text elements with low contrast
39 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
1 tap target too small
1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
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.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h3 → h5, h3 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 44 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 4 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
54 internal links, 9 external
The homepage links to 54 pages on nowalchemy.com and 9 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 160 characters
Your meta description is 160 characters: “Premium Ormus Gold elixir for energy & focus. Pair with sacred deer antler, Methylene Blue, or our limitless multivitam…”.
Title: 59 characters
Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Ormus Gold, Monoatomic Gold, Monatomic Elixer | Now Alchemy”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://nowalchemy.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization, Product 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://nowalchemy.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: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description; contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,809 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://nowalchemy.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
10 pages without a meta description
https://nowalchemy.com/collections/all, https://nowalchemy.com/collections/liquidation, https://nowalchemy.com/pages/the-foundational-six, https://nowalchemy.com/pages/learn, https://nowalchemy.com/pages/healing-earth and https://nowalchemy.com/pages/real-results and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
8 pages without an H1
https://nowalchemy.com/collections/all, https://nowalchemy.com/collections/liquidation, https://nowalchemy.com/pages/the-foundational-six, https://nowalchemy.com/pages/learn, https://nowalchemy.com/pages/about and https://nowalchemy.com/collections/cognitive 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 32 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
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “$ is not defined”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
18 of 19 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 36 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 1,288 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,288 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop All”.
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Shop All” and “Learn More”.
8 short forms
8 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and 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.
19 cookies set on arrival
19Opening the homepage sets 19 cookies, 2 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.
33 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 33 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 nowalchemy.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 13 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Inbox · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Sami Wholesale · Uppromote Affiliate · Seowill Ai Seo · Affliate By Secomapp · perfectaudience.com · omnisnippet1.com · adroll.com · shappify.com · boldapps.net · goaffpro.com · cloudfront.net
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
- The footer still says © 2024.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics
- Hosting
- Cloudflare
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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