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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202640 issues · 80 checks

This review found 40 issues worth fixing on rafinova.com, 14 of them high impact, across 80 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

11 to fix57
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.0 s · 1.1 MB

    About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.2 s · 267 KiB

    30 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (267 KiB).

  • Mobile performance score: 57

    57/100

    Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, rebuyengine.com and Klaviyo and others), adding 2.1 MB and 651 ms of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    651 KiB

    24 images could be 651 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Render-blocking requests

    300 ms

    3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

  • 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 169 ms

    169 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 169 ms of main-thread work and 301 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.

  • rebuyengine.com adds 109 ms

    109 ms

    rebuyengine.com costs a phone 109 ms of main-thread work and 330 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 102 ms

    102 ms

    Klaviyo costs a phone 102 ms of main-thread work and 357 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.

  • Vimeo adds 39 ms

    39 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 39 ms of main-thread work and 551 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.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 107 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    79 KiB

    About 79 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    57 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 57 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.

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  • Server response: 6 ms

    6 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix62
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 19.9 s

    19.9 s

    Your largest element takes 19.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “RAFI NOVA IS BACK! Our Best Selling Collection is LIVE! Eve…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 23.5 s

    23.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 23.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.4 s

    8.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 233 ms

    233 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 233 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • 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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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 4.5 MB in 305 requests

    4.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.5 MB in 305 requests on a phone: scripts 2.4 MB (105), images 1.2 MB (49) and other files 741 KiB (134). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.29 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.29 g of CO₂e: 154.3 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 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

8 to fixGoogle 8489
  • Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (1 element)

    Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 6 tap targets too small

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

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • 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 (3 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Document should not have more than one banner landmark (1 element)

    Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 8 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 9295
  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“” and “Our Best Selling Collection is LIVE!”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • 48 internal links, 3 external

    The homepage links to 48 pages on rafinova.com and 3 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 99 characters

    Your meta description is 99 characters: “Create Community. Elevate the everyday by saying yes. Act locally and support globally. Shop today!”.

  • Title: 34 characters

    Your title is a healthy 34 characters: “Rafi Nova | Adventure Packs & Bags”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.

  • 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://rafinova.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (489 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://rafinova.com/llms.txt (5 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

6 to fix43
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to https://rafinova.com/collections/elementary-school, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 1 page without a title

    https://rafinova.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    https://rafinova.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 2 pages without a meta description

    https://rafinova.com/customer_authentication/redirect and https://rafinova.com/collections/packs-bags have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    https://rafinova.com/products/pasa-paa-x-rafi-nova-backpack and https://rafinova.com/products/voyager-backpack-red-paco-1401l use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://rafinova.com/customer_authentication/redirect has 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 35 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 5474
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=25139178&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=e017397a-edab-4145-ad38-d173deecf1c5&bo=1&sid=cbd6f1e0d8c211f19586f1c088098fce&vid=cbd73cc0d8c211f1a42b3ddbb9ce4e90&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=91.

  • 2 third-party cookies

    2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • Browser-reported issues

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

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    24 of 25 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix83
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 5 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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.

  • 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 442 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 442 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop the collection” and “Shop Now”.

  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Shop the collection” and “Contact”.

  • 4 short forms

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 11 trackers load before any consent

    11

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 6 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.

  • 33 cookies set on arrival

    33

    Opening the homepage sets 33 cookies, 2 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.

  • 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 rafinova.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 7 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

klaviyo.com · jst.ai · covet.pics · cloudlift.app · talkshop.live · tawk.to · rebuyengine.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 Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
Newton

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

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