orwellausten.com website review

About 465 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 6.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Klaviyo and Google CDN and others), adding 1.8 MB and 930 ms of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 53. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Shopify costs a phone 389 ms of main-thread work and 703 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.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

Klaviyo costs a phone 314 ms of main-thread work and 616 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.

About 59 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

10 images could be 304 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Google CDN costs a phone 174 ms of main-thread work and 298 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 block the main thread while loading, the longest for 196 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (88 KiB).

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

13 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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.

4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Your largest element takes 19.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 19.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 8.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 327 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.0 s to 1.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 340 requests on a phone: scripts 1.6 MB (157), images 1,016 KiB (16) and other files 993 KiB (141). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example 5da7b078-d841-46f8-afb5-5a7ca22c4b35.jpeg at 971 px wide, shown at 185 px. Resized copies would save about 99 KiB.

1 image (148 KiB) is 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 1.12 g of CO₂e: 134.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

10 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

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.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Orwell + Austen” and “Sign up to our newsletter and enjoy 15% off your …”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

The homepage links to 84 pages on orwellausten.com and 6 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), 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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

11 of 45 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught SyntaxError: Identifier 'urlToPreload' has already been declared”.

Social proof on the homepage: 8 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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 351 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta 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.

Opening the homepage sets 20 cookies (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 30 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.