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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 November 202622 issues · 68 checks

This review found 22 issues worth fixing on obsessedbywatches.com, 6 of them high impact, across 68 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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 obsessedbywatches.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. obsessedbywatches.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. obsessedbywatches.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. obsessedbywatches.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. obsessedbywatches.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. obsessedbywatches.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. obsessedbywatches.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. obsessedbywatches.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  8. obsessedbywatches.com at 3.3 s3.3 s

Speed

4 to fix71
  • Improve image delivery

    1.0 s · 332 KiB

    17 images could be 332 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.0 s faster on a phone.

  • 4,465 HTML elements

    The page has 4,465 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 71

    71/100

    Your mobile performance score is 71. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Shopify adds 43 ms

    43 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 43 ms of main-thread work and 295 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 6 KiB

    4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    150 ms

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.

  • 2 third-party services on the page

    2 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify and shop.app), adding 303 KiB and 43 ms of main-thread time.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 292 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 34 ms

    34 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 34 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix70
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.3 s

    6.3 s

    Your largest element takes 6.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Speed Index: 5.5 s

    5.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 6.3 s

    6.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 6.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • 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.

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  • 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

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.3 MB in 183 requests

    2.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 183 requests on a phone: images 1.2 MB (25), other files 662 KiB (69) and scripts 232 KiB (56). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (46 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.66 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.66 g of CO₂e: 79.5 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

2 to fixGoogle 9797
  • 13 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (5 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 30 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 50 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10096
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • 86 internal links, 10 external

    The homepage links to 86 pages on obsessedbywatches.com and 10 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 105 characters

    Your meta description is 105 characters: “Premium new and pre owned watches. Part of the WatchObsession group based in the UK. Established in 2008.”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Obsessed By Watches”.

  • Title: 41 characters

    Your title is a healthy 41 characters: “Obsessed by Watches – Obsessed By Watches”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.obsessedbywatches.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.

  • 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://www.obsessedbywatches.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

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  • 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 (1,931 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://www.obsessedbywatches.com/collections/qlock-earth-45 has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 37 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • 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 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: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    17 of 21 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 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.

  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • 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 analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • No opening hours

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

  • 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 366 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 366 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Contact us” and “Track your Order”.

  • 5 short forms

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

  • Direct contact links

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

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Pinterest Tag (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.

  • 10 cookies set on arrival

    10

    Opening the homepage sets 10 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.

  • 9 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 9 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 obsessedbywatches.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

No apps were seen in the code your storefront loads.

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

E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

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

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