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rains.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202635 issues · 88 checks
This review found 35 issues worth fixing on rains.com, 6 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: invalid ARIA attributes. 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
89B- #3,144 of 97,925 reviewed websitesbeats 95%
- #1,577 of 53,390 online storesbeats 95%
- #1,529 of 48,418 Shopify storesbeats 95%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.3 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 174 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 178 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 184 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 181 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
Mobile performance score: 84
84/100Your mobile performance score is 84. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
300 ms · 634 KiB16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (634 KiB).
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (rebuyengine.com, sleeknote.com and Cookie-Script.com and others), adding 1.9 MB and 570 ms of main-thread time.
Render-blocking requests
700 ms7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 700 ms.
Reduce unused JavaScript
150 ms · 377 KiBAbout 377 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Main-thread work: 3.2 s
A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
2,533 HTML elements
The page has 2,533 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
rebuyengine.com adds 178 ms
178 msrebuyengine.com costs a phone 178 ms of main-thread work and 686 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.
Cookie-Script.com adds 96 ms
96 msCookie-Script.com costs a phone 96 ms of main-thread work and 364 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.
Shopify adds 39 ms
39 msShopify costs a phone 39 ms of main-thread work and 470 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.
9 long tasks on the main thread
9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 220 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Reduce unused CSS
52 KiBAbout 52 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
40 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 40 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 15.9 s
15.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 15.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 7.3 s
7.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 7.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 307 ms
307 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 307 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
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 177 ms to 181 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
9 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 172 ms
172 msReal visitors wait 172 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.01
0.01For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 680 ms
680 msReal visitors wait 680 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.4 s
2.4 sYour largest element renders in 2.4 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the image “Hero image”.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.4 MB in 219 requests
3.4 MBYour homepage downloads 3.4 MB in 219 requests on a phone: scripts 1.5 MB (64), other files 1.0 MB (125) and images 629 KiB (11). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
3 images far larger than shown
346 KiB3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example rains_hilo_weekend_bag_black_everyday_pack_1_37f87523-270b-4 at 3,600 px wide, shown at 136 px. Resized copies would save about 346 KiB.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
0.97 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.97 g of CO₂e: 116.3 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 load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
Links look like plain text
1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.
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.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (2 elements)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (2 elements)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 195 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
53 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 passed and 5 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. 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.
8 H1 headlines
There are 8 <h1> headlines (“Winter: Volume I”, “Rainwear” and “Backpacks”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
2 links with vague text
2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
462 internal links, 19 external
The homepage links to 462 pages on rains.com and 19 external pages.
5 checks passed
Title: 53 characters
Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “Rains® | Explore Waterproof Jackets, Bags & Outerwear”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://rains.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, 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://rains.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (976 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://rains.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
https://rains.com/collections/new-arrivals and https://rains.com/collections/new-arrivals/kvinde all use the title “New Arrivals from Rains® | See collection | Buy with 2-year warranty”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
4 pages without a meta description
https://rains.com/pages/company, https://rains.com/pages/contact, https://rains.com/pages/stores and https://rains.com/pages/terms have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages share a meta description
https://rains.com/collections/new-arrivals and https://rains.com/collections/new-arrivals/kvinde use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
3 links to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 3 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://rains.com/collections/womens-outerwear/female, whose canonical is https://rains.com/collections/womens-outerwear. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 144 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
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
25 small tap targets
25 of 66 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
6 JavaScript errors while loading
6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'email') https://rains.com/web-pixels/strict/app/web-pixel-2730131696@8203fc1dc…”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
About 354 words of copy
The homepage carries about 354 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 Women's Winter Jackets” and “Shop Men's Winter Jackets”.
33 calls to action
The homepage has 33 calls to action, for example “Shop all women's”, “Shop all men's” and “Shop all bags”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 3 email links.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
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
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Ads (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.
13 cookies set on arrival
13Opening the homepage sets 13 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.
25 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 25 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 rains.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Tailwind CSS
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Employees
- 320
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Aarhus
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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