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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202621 issues · 61 checks

This review found 21 issues worth fixing on rctdevelopers.com, 7 of them high impact, across 61 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

Site score

76C

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

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

4 to fix69

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.2 s

    12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.2 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    900 ms · 135 KiB

    About 135 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 69

    69/100

    Your mobile performance score is 69. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    550 ms · 185 KiB

    6 images could be 185 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 550 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 26 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (26 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 19 KiB

    About 19 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Hexton and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 312 KiB and 44 ms of main-thread time.

  • 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

2 checks passed

  • Main-thread work: 0.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 186 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix67

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 8.1 s

    8.1 s

    Your largest element takes 8.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “BRAVE IDEAS NEED A SMARTER TEAM We are specialize in creati…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 8.2 s

    8.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.5 s

    5.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 8 images without width and height

    8 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.

2 checks passed

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100

  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.47 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.47 g of CO₂e: 56.4 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: 1.7 MB in 101 requests

    1.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.7 MB in 101 requests on a phone: other files 561 KiB (39), images 496 KiB (27) and scripts 325 KiB (16). 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

3 to fixGoogle 9396

  • 4 images without alt text

    4 images have 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.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 3 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9288

  • Title is long (76 characters)

    Your title is 76 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Free, Cheap Shopify Themes – RCT Developers : Shopify, eCommerce Development”.

  • 3 H1 headlines

    There are 3 <h1> headlines (“<img src="//www.rctdevelopers.com/cdn/shop/files/…”, “Great You are Here” and “Services We Offer”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • 67 internal links, 11 external

    The homepage links to 67 pages on rctdevelopers.com and 11 external pages.

6 checks passed

  • Meta description: 99 characters

    Your meta description is 99 characters: “Shopify Themes, Shopify Development, Wordpress Solutions, eCommerce Development at affordable rates”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.rctdevelopers.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://www.rctdevelopers.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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: 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 (526 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

1 to fix0

  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to https://www.rctdevelopers.com/products/rct-theme, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 30 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 9285

  • 6 small tap targets

    6 of 9 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Refused to apply style from 'https://www.rctdevelopers.com/cdn/shop/t/8/assets/custom.scss.css?v=1746631706839813319616…”.

  • 8 distorted images

    8 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

1 checks passed

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix64

  • 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 direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • About 275 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 275 words of visible text.

4 checks passed

  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Request a Quote”, “Buy This Shopify Template” and “Beard Shop Shopify Theme”.

  • 5 short forms

    5 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Matomo.

  • 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

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 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.

  • 10 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 10 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 rctdevelopers.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 2 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

b-cdn.net · hextom.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
Matomo
Hosting
Shopify

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

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