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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202629 issues · 86 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on pathprojects.com, 5 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 5.4 MB in 285 requests. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.2 s1.9 sMay 23Nov 71.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.0 s
May 30, 20262.0 s
Jun 6, 20262.0 s
Jun 13, 20262.0 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.0 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20262.1 s
Jul 18, 20262.2 s
Jul 25, 20262.2 s
Aug 1, 20262.2 s
Aug 8, 20262.2 s
Aug 15, 20262.1 s
Aug 22, 20262.1 s
Aug 29, 20262.1 s
Sep 5, 20262.0 s
Sep 12, 20262.1 s
Sep 19, 20262.1 s
Sep 26, 20262.0 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20261.9 s
Oct 17, 20261.9 s
Oct 24, 20262.0 s
Oct 31, 20261.9 s
Nov 7, 20261.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
240 ms144 msMay 23Nov 7155 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026206 ms
May 30, 2026207 ms
Jun 6, 2026213 ms
Jun 13, 2026220 ms
Jun 20, 2026220 ms
Jun 27, 2026221 ms
Jul 4, 2026215 ms
Jul 11, 2026213 ms
Jul 18, 2026212 ms
Jul 25, 2026211 ms
Aug 1, 2026216 ms
Aug 8, 2026220 ms
Aug 15, 2026224 ms
Aug 22, 2026229 ms
Aug 29, 2026222 ms
Sep 5, 2026213 ms
Sep 12, 2026202 ms
Sep 19, 2026189 ms
Sep 26, 2026181 ms
Oct 3, 2026178 ms
Oct 10, 2026170 ms
Oct 17, 2026165 ms
Oct 24, 2026162 ms
Oct 31, 2026160 ms
Nov 7, 2026155 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

Full-page screenshot of pathprojects.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. pathprojects.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. pathprojects.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. pathprojects.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. pathprojects.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. pathprojects.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. pathprojects.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. pathprojects.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. pathprojects.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

8 to fix67
  • Improve image delivery

    1.6 MB

    9 images could be 1.6 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Mobile performance score: 67

    67/100

    Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 293 KiB

    About 293 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2,834 HTML elements

    The page has 2,834 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Main-thread work: 2.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 137 ms

    137 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 137 ms of main-thread work and 310 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.

  • Klaviyo adds 75 ms

    75 ms

    Klaviyo costs a phone 75 ms of main-thread work and 328 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.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, corso.com and Clarity and others), adding 1,024 KiB and 491 ms of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    50 ms · 203 KiB

    15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (203 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 28 KiB

    About 28 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.

  • 8 long tasks on the main thread

    8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 125 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Legacy JavaScript

    19 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 19 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 JavaScript

    5 KiB

    5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    3 KiB

    3 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

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  • Server response: 13 ms

    13 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.5 s

    7.5 s

    Your largest element takes 7.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 17.8 s

    17.8 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 17.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.0 s

    5.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

9 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: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    Real visitors wait 2.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 105 ms

    105 ms

    Real visitors wait 105 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 383 ms

    383 ms

    Real visitors wait 383 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 24% faster for real visitors

    -24%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 206 ms to 155 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Total Blocking Time: 159 ms

    159 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 159 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.043

    0.043

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.043, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 5.4 MB in 285 requests

    5.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.4 MB in 285 requests on a phone: images 3.0 MB (20), scripts 1.3 MB (102) and other files 880 KiB (119). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (97 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.

  • About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.54 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.54 g of CO₂e: 185.1 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 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

5 to fixGoogle 9794
  • 2 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 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.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 33 links without text

    33 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Headings should not be empty (1 element)

    Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 457 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 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 10091
  • Structured data has 7 problems

    Structured data found (Organization, Store and WebSite) but with 7 problems, for example “Organization: sameAs is not an absolute URL ("https")”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 133 internal links, 3 external

    The homepage links to 133 pages on pathprojects.com and 3 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “Designs and technical fabrics that outperform, out style and out-run. Mens running shorts with pockets, shirts and head…”.

  • Title: 60 characters

    Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “Mens running shorts with pockets, shirts and headwear to run”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://pathprojects.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://pathprojects.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (955 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 4 pages without a meta description

    /collections/new-arrivals, /collections/best-sellers, /collections/short-sleeves-and-tanks and /collections/hoodies-and-long-sleeves have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 7 pages without an H1

    /collections/all, /collections/new-arrivals, /collections/best-sellers, /collections/short-sleeves-and-tanks, /collections/hoodies-and-long-sleeves and /collections/midlayers and 1 other 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 53 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    7 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 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 20 small tap targets

    20 of 39 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix83
  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • 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.

  • Only about 231 words

    The homepage has only about 231 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No opening hours

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

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP FALL GEAR”.

  • 15 calls to action

    The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Shop All”, “Shop All Kits & Bundles” and “Shop”.

  • 4 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 20 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity.

  • LocalBusiness structured data

    Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    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.

  • 29 cookies set on arrival

    29

    Opening the homepage sets 29 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.

  • 51 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 51 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 pathprojects.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 11 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Intelligems A B Testing · Uso Ultimate Special Offers · Okendo · Triplewhale · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Seo Manager Venntov · Back In Stock · yotpo.com · giftcardpro.app · corso.com

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

Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Shopify

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

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