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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202633 issues · 76 checks

This review found 33 issues worth fixing on rachelroy.com, 8 of them high impact, across 76 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
2.4 s1.5 sMay 23Nov 71.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.0 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20261.9 s
Jun 13, 20261.9 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20262.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20262.1 s
Jul 18, 20262.0 s
Jul 25, 20262.0 s
Aug 1, 20262.1 s
Aug 8, 20262.0 s
Aug 15, 20262.1 s
Aug 22, 20262.1 s
Aug 29, 20262.1 s
Sep 5, 20262.2 s
Sep 12, 20262.2 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.1 s
Oct 3, 20262.0 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20261.7 s
Oct 31, 20261.6 s
Nov 7, 20261.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
87 ms69 msMay 23Oct 1772 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 202679 ms
May 30, 202677 ms
Jun 6, 202679 ms
Jun 13, 202678 ms
Jun 20, 202679 ms
Jun 27, 202679 ms
Jul 4, 202674 ms
Jul 11, 202674 ms
Jul 18, 202671 ms
Jul 25, 202671 ms
Aug 1, 202671 ms
Aug 8, 202675 ms
Aug 15, 202678 ms
Aug 22, 202679 ms
Aug 29, 202682 ms
Sep 5, 202685 ms
Sep 12, 202682 ms
Sep 19, 202682 ms
Sep 26, 202680 ms
Oct 3, 202679 ms
Oct 10, 202677 ms
Oct 17, 202672 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 rachelroy.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. rachelroy.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. rachelroy.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. rachelroy.com at 1.7 s1.7 s
  4. rachelroy.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  5. rachelroy.com at 2.9 s2.9 s
  6. rachelroy.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  7. rachelroy.com at 4.0 s4.0 s
  8. rachelroy.com at 4.6 s4.6 s

Speed

5 to fix67
  • 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

    900 ms

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    750 ms · 98 KiB

    About 98 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    350 ms · 75 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (75 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    414 KiB

    2 images could be 414 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 27 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 27 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    130 ms · 38 KiB

    About 38 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 130 ms faster on a phone.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Criteo and Afterpay and others), adding 275 KiB and 96 ms of main-thread time.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 53 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 0.8 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 436 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 28 ms

    28 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 28 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix0
  • 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: 8.6 s

    8.6 s

    Your largest element takes 8.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.7 s

    8.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.12

    0.12

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Speed Index: 5.8 s

    5.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s

    2.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -4%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 79 ms to 72 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

4 checks passed
  • Real-user FCP: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 20% faster for real visitors

    -20%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 1.6 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: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 3 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix90
  • 2 images far larger than shown

    392 KiB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example banners_3.jpg at 3,333 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 392 KiB.

  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.53 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.53 g of CO₂e: 64.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • Page weight: 1.9 MB in 118 requests

    1.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.9 MB in 118 requests on a phone: other files 654 KiB (66), images 490 KiB (4) and scripts 427 KiB (33). That is a lean page.

  • 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.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9293
  • 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.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • 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.

  • 3 links without text

    3 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.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed
  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 5 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 10083
  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is long (285 characters)

    Your meta description is 285 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.

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 20 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 20 pages on rachelroy.com and 6 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Title: 39 characters

    Your title is a healthy 39 characters: “Rachel Roy® - American fashion designer”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://rachelroy.com/.

  • 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://rachelroy.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • 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.

2 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.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

1 to fix75
  • 3 linked pages are broken

    Your homepage links to https://rachelroy.com/apps/iwish, https://rachelroy.com/pages/terms-of-use and https://rachelroy.com/pages/privacy-policy, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

  • 1 page with very little text

    https://rachelroy.com/pages/contact-us has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 9 internal pages checked

    We fetched 9 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 5 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 5 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 7385
  • 14 small tap targets

    14 of 17 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

5 to fix50
  • 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 72 words

    The homepage has only about 72 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.

2 checks passed
  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact Us”.

  • 2 short forms

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

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Criteo, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo 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.

  • 12 cookies set on arrival

    12

    Opening the homepage sets 12 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.

  • 19 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 19 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 rachelroy.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 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

klaviyo.com · layouthub.com · afterpay.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

E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
Sacramento

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

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