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psaudio.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202615 issues · 74 checks
This review found 15 issues worth fixing on psaudio.com, 4 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 3.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3.5 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 112 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 113 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 113 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 115 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 118 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 128 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 125 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 127 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 124 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 123 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 115 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
Speed
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Real-user FCP: 3.2 s
3.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 3.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 2.9 s
2.9 sReal visitors wait 2.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 112 ms to 115 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.9 s to 2.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user INP: 115 ms
115 msReal visitors wait 115 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 TTFB: 504 ms
504 msReal visitors wait 504 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.0 MB
3.0 MBYour homepage downloads 3.0 MB on a phone, 446 KiB of it images (14%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.9 g of CO₂ per visit
0.86 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.86 g of CO₂e: 102.9 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
9 text elements with low contrast
9 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 35 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
44 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 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
Meta description is long (292 characters)
Your meta description is 292 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
108 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 108 pages on psaudio.com and 4 external pages.
7 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Hear what you've been missing”.
Title: 52 characters
Your title is a healthy 52 characters: “High-End Audio Products & Audio Equipment – PS Audio”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.psaudio.com/.
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 and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.psaudio.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
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.
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 (1,187 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
6 pages without a meta description
/pages/contact, /collections/dacs-and-sources-new, /pages/foundation-system, /pages/horizon-system, /pages/summit-system and /pages/systems have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
4 pages without an H1
/products/goodnight-moon, /products/vantage-point, /products/squid-city-slingers and /products/introducing-jude-kofie 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 45 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 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.
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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Details element not found”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
8 of 8 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
1 broken link to your own pages
1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/copper/magic-boy-the-jimi-hendrix-experience-live-and-rediscovered (network).
Short HSTS lifetime
HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.
3 links through redirect chains
3 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.psaudio.com/account.
No Referrer-Policy
No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.
No Permissions-Policy
No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (psaudio.com).
Valid certificate (62 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for psaudio.com and is valid for another 62 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://psaudio.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
psaudio.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.
3 checks passed
Domain is 28 years old
28 yearspsaudio.com was registered in Aug 1998 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only letsencrypt.org, pki.goog, ssl.com and digicert.com to issue certificates for psaudio.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Nov 2028
psaudio.com is registered until Nov 2028.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 3 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 598 words of copy
The homepage carries about 598 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: “NEW TO PS AUDIO? START HERE”.
8 calls to action
The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Join the HiFi Family”, “Start here” and “New to PS Audio? Start here.”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (4 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 4 email links.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 85/100
Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:squarespace-mail.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.mandrillapp…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “k1” and “s1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
5 trackers load before any consent
5Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel (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.
19 cookies set on arrival
19Opening the homepage sets 19 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.
33 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 33 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Apps on your store
Your storefront loads 9 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.
Apps your storefront loads
Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Pc6f8cd7l Opensend · Ps Audio Geolocation · Triplewhale · chimpstatic.com · printful.com · digital-downloads.com · nice-team.net · 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
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- Boulder
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
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- Earned media and PR openings
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