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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202619 issues · 59 checks
This review found 19 issues worth fixing on pennyscallan.com, 6 of them high impact, across 59 checks. The most urgent: 1 button without a name. 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
88B- #5,159 of 106,977 reviewed websitesbeats 93%
- #2,853 of 60,398 online storesbeats 93%
- #2,772 of 55,096 Shopify storesbeats 92%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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
Render-blocking requests
350 ms4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 350 ms.
Shopify adds 56 ms
56 msShopify costs a phone 56 ms of main-thread work and 319 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.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 171 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
6 third-party services on the page
6 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, POWr and config-security.com and others), adding 392 KiB and 102 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
26 KiBAbout 26 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
18 KiB4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (18 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
10 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 10 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.
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Mobile performance score: 98
98/100Your mobile performance score is 98. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 1.5 s
A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 874 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 5 ms
5 msYour server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Speed Index: 3.5 s
3.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
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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Largest content (LCP) got 27% faster for real visitors
-27%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s
1.8 sThe first text or image appears after 1.8 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Time to Interactive: 2.6 s
2.6 sThe page is fully interactive after 2.6 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 1.8 s
1.8 sYour largest element renders in 1.8 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “We’re taking a break… but this isn’t necessarily goodbye!”.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 61 ms
61 msScripts block the page for only 61 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
8 images in older formats
8 images (1.1 MB) are 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 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit
0.43 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.43 g of CO₂e: 51.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
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Page weight: 1.5 MB in 210 requests
1.5 MBYour homepage downloads 1.5 MB in 210 requests on a phone: other files 967 KiB (145), scripts 251 KiB (42) and images 220 KiB (9). That is a lean page.
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
1 button without a name
1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
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.
6 images without alt text
6 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
10 form fields without a label
10 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
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27 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 30 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 27 passed and 3 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
No XML sitemap
No XML sitemap at https://www.pennyscallan.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.
49 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 49 pages on pennyscallan.com and 4 external pages.
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One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “We’re taking a break… but this isn’t necessarily goodbye!”.
Title: 35 characters
Your title is a healthy 35 characters: “Penny Scallan Design – Opening Soon”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.pennyscallan.com/password.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization.
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.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.pennyscallan.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.
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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.
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.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 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.
Best practices
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot set properties of undefined (setting 'CountdownTimer')”.
8 distorted images
8 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.
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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 social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 52 words
The homepage has only about 52 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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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6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Contact” and “Register”.
7 short forms
7 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, 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
10Opening 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.
15 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 15 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 pennyscallan.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 2 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Foxkit Upsell Bundles · powr.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
- Framework
- Tailwind CSS
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 19 issues on pennyscallan.com, including 3 speed issues, 2 SEO issues and 5 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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