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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202624 issues · 76 checks

This review found 24 issues worth fixing on pillows.com, 9 of them high impact, across 76 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
1.4 s1.2 sMay 23Nov 71.2 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.4 s
May 30, 20261.3 s
Jun 6, 20261.3 s
Jun 13, 20261.3 s
Jun 20, 20261.3 s
Jun 27, 20261.3 s
Jul 4, 20261.3 s
Jul 11, 20261.3 s
Jul 18, 20261.3 s
Jul 25, 20261.3 s
Aug 1, 20261.3 s
Aug 8, 20261.3 s
Aug 15, 20261.3 s
Aug 22, 20261.3 s
Aug 29, 20261.3 s
Sep 5, 20261.3 s
Sep 12, 20261.3 s
Sep 19, 20261.3 s
Sep 26, 20261.3 s
Oct 3, 20261.3 s
Oct 10, 20261.3 s
Oct 17, 20261.2 s
Oct 24, 20261.2 s
Oct 31, 20261.2 s
Nov 7, 20261.2 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
159 ms108 msMay 23Nov 7121 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026130 ms
May 30, 2026138 ms
Jun 6, 2026153 ms
Jun 13, 2026153 ms
Jun 20, 2026152 ms
Jun 27, 2026149 ms
Jul 4, 2026136 ms
Jul 11, 2026126 ms
Jul 18, 2026121 ms
Jul 25, 2026119 ms
Aug 1, 2026117 ms
Aug 8, 2026114 ms
Aug 15, 2026120 ms
Aug 22, 2026124 ms
Aug 29, 2026121 ms
Sep 5, 2026126 ms
Sep 12, 2026122 ms
Sep 19, 2026121 ms
Sep 26, 2026127 ms
Oct 3, 2026131 ms
Oct 10, 2026130 ms
Oct 17, 2026128 ms
Oct 24, 2026129 ms
Oct 31, 2026124 ms
Nov 7, 2026121 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 pillows.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. pillows.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. pillows.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. pillows.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. pillows.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. pillows.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. pillows.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. pillows.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  8. pillows.com at 3.1 s3.1 s

Speed

6 to fix60
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.1 s · 330 KiB

    23 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (330 KiB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.0 s · 161 KiB

    About 161 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 60

    60/100

    Your mobile performance score is 60. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    300 ms · 288 KiB

    8 images could be 288 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • 1,947 HTML elements

    The page has 1,947 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Attentive adds 102 ms

    102 ms

    Attentive costs a phone 102 ms of main-thread work and 329 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 (Attentive, searchspring.io and Shopify and others), adding 661 KiB and 235 ms of main-thread time.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 57 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).

  • 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

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 582 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 13 ms

    13 ms

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

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 12.0 s

    12.0 s

    Your largest element takes 12.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “White Pillows on a luxury hotel bed”.

  • Time to Interactive: 12.3 s

    12.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 12.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.4 s

    4.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 866 ms

    866 ms

    Real visitors wait 866 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 130 ms to 121 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 107 ms

    107 ms

    Real visitors wait 107 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: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 10% faster for real visitors

    -10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 8 ms

    8 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 8 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix83
  • Page weight: 2.6 MB in 161 requests

    2.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 161 requests on a phone: images 1.2 MB (48), scripts 577 KiB (52) and other files 517 KiB (28). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    Hotel_Bed_Pillows.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (69 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.75 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.75 g of CO₂e: 89.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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 10096
  • 8 tap targets too small

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

  • 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.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 93 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 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

3 to fixGoogle 9289
  • Meta description is long (184 characters)

    Your meta description is 184 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “ld+json block 1 is not valid JSON (Unexpected token ',', ..."lows_com",,"http:\/\"... is not va)”.

  • 13 links crawlers can't follow

    13 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 272 internal links, 8 external

    The homepage links to 272 pages on pillows.com and 8 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Pillows.com”.

  • Title: 37 characters

    Your title is a healthy 37 characters: “Sleep Better Guaranteed | Pillows.com”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,337 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 125 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

7 checks passed
  • 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 13 small tap targets

    13 of 52 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “gtag is not defined”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix93
  • No analytics detected

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

  • About 567 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 567 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop All Pillows” and “SHOP HOTEL PILLOWS”.

  • 33 calls to action

    The homepage has 33 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Shop All Pillows” and “Shop By Hotel”.

  • 3 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 73 testimonial or review blocks and 1 customer or partner logo.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 1 email link.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 8 trackers load before any consent

    8

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Ads and 3 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.

  • 14 cookies set on arrival

    14

    Opening the homepage sets 14 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.

  • 30 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 30 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 pillows.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 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Redo · Swym Wishlist Plus · hulkapps.com · stamped.io · attn.tv · getredo.com · merchantyard.com · cloudfront.net

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

Company

Headquarters
Denver

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

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