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rafols.ca website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202622 issues · 62 checks
This review found 22 issues worth fixing on rafols.ca, 6 of them high impact, across 62 checks. The most urgent: 17 text elements with low contrast. 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
84B- #18,885 of 103,924 reviewed websitesbeats 77%
- #12,131 of 58,051 online storesbeats 73%
- #11,772 of 52,853 Shopify storesbeats 71%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Render-blocking requests
600 ms21 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.
2,868 HTML elements
The page has 2,868 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify and shop.app), adding 247 KiB and 35 ms of main-thread time.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 51 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
6 KiB4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6 KiB).
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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 93
93/100Your mobile performance score is 93. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.9 s
A phone's processor spends 0.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 269 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 9 ms
9 msYour server sent the HTML in 9 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Speed Index: 5.1 s
5.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 5.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.1 s
2.1 sThe first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Time to Interactive: 3.8 s
3.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 3.8 s. Good is under 3.8 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.
3 checks passed
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.1 s
2.1 sYour largest element renders in 2.1 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Browse our latest products”.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 1 ms
1 msScripts block the page for only 1 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.4 g of CO₂ per visit
0.36 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.36 g of CO₂e: 43.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 1.3 MB in 180 requests
1.3 MBYour homepage downloads 1.3 MB in 180 requests on a phone: other files 755 KiB (90), scripts 232 KiB (56) and fonts 186 KiB (4). 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.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
17 text elements with low contrast
17 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (4 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 2 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 2 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 social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
25 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 25 pages on rafols.ca and 1 external page.
6 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “JR's More Awesome Store”.
Title: 49 characters
Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “JR's More Awesome Store – JR's More Awesome Store”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://rafols.ca/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.
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://rafols.ca/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, 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.
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://rafols.ca/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a title
https://rafols.ca/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
https://rafols.ca/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
8 pages without a meta description
https://rafols.ca/collections/all, https://rafols.ca/customer_authentication/redirect, https://rafols.ca/products/beer-of-the-month-club, https://rafols.ca/products/digital-product, https://rafols.ca/policies/refund-policy and https://rafols.ca/policies/privacy-policy and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
https://rafols.ca/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page slow to respond
https://rafols.ca/customer_authentication/redirect took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
11 internal pages checked
We fetched 11 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
3 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 11 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.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
17 of 21 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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 calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
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 102 words
The homepage has only about 102 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.
1 checks passed
10 short forms
10 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening the homepage sets 6 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.
4 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 4 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 rafols.ca, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Apps on your store
No apps were seen in the code your storefront loads.
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
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 22 issues on rafols.ca, including 5 speed issues, 3 SEO issues and 6 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.
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- 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
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- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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