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paperstraight.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202624 issues · 79 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on paperstraight.com, 5 of them high impact, across 79 checks. The most urgent: 5,274 HTML elements. 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
85B- #12,530 of 92,188 reviewed websitesbeats 82%
- #7,526 of 48,907 online storesbeats 79%
- #7,298 of 44,091 Shopify storesbeats 78%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 150 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 138 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 159 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 174 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 181 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 173 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 170 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 168 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 162 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 157 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
5,274 HTML elements
The page has 5,274 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Mobile performance score: 71
71/100Your mobile performance score is 71. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, TikTok and Clarity and others), adding 964 KiB and 841 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
310 ms · 584 KiBAbout 584 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
750 ms4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.
Improve image delivery
500 ms · 151 KiB4 images could be 151 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.
Main-thread work: 3.8 s
A phone's processor spends 3.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Google Tag Manager adds 325 ms
325 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 325 ms of main-thread work and 336 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.
6 long tasks on the main thread
6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 199 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
65 KiB10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (65 KiB).
Reduce unused CSS
32 KiBAbout 32 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
28 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 28 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 13 ms
13 msYour server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 14.0 s
14.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 14.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.9 s
5.9 sYour largest element takes 5.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Black Paper Straight derbies with rope laces on wet asphalt…”.
Total Blocking Time: 294 ms
294 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 294 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 11% slower for real visitors
+11%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 150 ms to 157 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
10 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: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 169 ms
169 msReal visitors wait 169 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: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 627 ms
627 msReal visitors wait 627 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 23% faster for real visitors
-23%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Speed Index: 3.2 s
3.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.2 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.4 MB in 241 requests
3.4 MBYour homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 241 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (55), scripts 1.1 MB (66) and other files 762 KiB (112). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
0.97 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.97 g of CO₂e: 116.3 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
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
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.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (1 element)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 449 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 4 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (14 characters)
Your title is only 14 characters: “Paper Straight”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“Paper Straight” and “25% off everything”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
Meta description is long (174 characters)
Your meta description is 174 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
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.
244 internal links, 50 external
The homepage links to 244 pages on paperstraight.com and 50 external pages.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://paperstraight.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, 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://paperstraight.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://paperstraight.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.
3 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 (1,919 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 63 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
4 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.
Every page has a meta description
All 4 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 4 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
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 ()”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
263 of 287 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
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.
About 865 words of copy
The homepage carries about 865 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 now”.
15 calls to action
The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “SHOP”, “Shop All Footwear” and “Shop all”.
227 short forms
227 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.
Privacy and tracking
9 trackers load before any consent
9Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 4 mores (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.
26 cookies set on arrival
26Opening the homepage sets 26 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.
40 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 40 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 paperstraight.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 6 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Elevar Conversion Tracking · Assortion · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Orbe Geolocation · loox.io
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
- Analytics
- Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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