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nsync.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202629 issues · 79 checks
This review found 29 issues worth fixing on nsync.com, 8 of them high impact, across 79 checks. The most urgent: 17 text elements with low contrast. 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
81B- #32,406 of 95,547 reviewed websitesbeats 60%
- #20,688 of 51,550 online storesbeats 53%
- #19,899 of 46,655 Shopify storesbeats 51%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 87 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 88 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 108 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 117 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 114 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 117 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (spotifycdn.com, Google Tag Manager and transcend-cdn.com and others), adding 1.7 MB and 1.3 s of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 75
75/100Your mobile performance score is 75. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
637 KiBAbout 637 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
300 ms · 310 KiB10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (310 KiB).
spotifycdn.com adds 428 ms
428 msspotifycdn.com costs a phone 428 ms of main-thread work and 729 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 416 ms
416 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 416 ms of main-thread work and 341 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.
11 long tasks on the main thread
11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 424 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Render-blocking requests
400 ms4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 400 ms.
Main-thread work: 3.1 s
A phone's processor spends 3.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Improve image delivery
186 KiB10 images could be 186 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Reduce unused CSS
47 KiBAbout 47 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
18 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 18 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.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
Minify CSS
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 16.0 s
16.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 16.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 664 ms
664 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 664 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 34% slower for real visitors
+34%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 117 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.2 s
3.2 sYour largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Speed Index: 3.9 s
3.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors wait 1.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 111 ms
111 msReal visitors wait 111 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 463 ms
463 msReal visitors wait 463 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sThe first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.2 MB in 219 requests
3.2 MBYour homepage downloads 3.2 MB in 219 requests on a phone: scripts 1.7 MB (74), other files 782 KiB (114) and images 544 KiB (15). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.92 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.92 g of CO₂e: 110.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
17 text elements with low contrast
17 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Frames without titles
1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.
3 images without alt text
3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
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 (h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
42 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 4 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“NSYNC Official Store” and “NSYNC Official Store”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
62 internal links, 13 external
The homepage links to 62 pages on nsync.com and 13 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 107 characters
Your meta description is 107 characters: “Shop exclusive merch and apparel from the NSYNC Official Store. Hoodies, tee shirts, accessories, and more.”.
Title: 44 characters
Your title is a healthy 44 characters: “*NSYNC Official Store - NSYNC Official Store”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://nsync.com/.
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://nsync.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
2 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.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://nsync.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 pages share a meta description
https://nsync.com/collections/apparel, https://nsync.com/collections/shirts, https://nsync.com/collections/outerwear, https://nsync.com/collections/bottoms, https://nsync.com/collections/kids and https://nsync.com/collections/best-sellers and 9 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
4 pages with very little text
https://nsync.com/collections/bottoms, https://nsync.com/collections/kids, https://nsync.com/collections/lifestyle-collection and https://nsync.com/collections/last-chance have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 31 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'open' of object '#<Window>'”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
17 of 18 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
No calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Only about 97 words
The homepage has only about 97 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
Phone number is not tap-to-call
Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.
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.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
2 checks passed
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.
7 cookies set on arrival
7Opening the homepage sets 7 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.
17 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 17 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 nsync.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
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