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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202639 issues · 86 checks

This review found 39 issues worth fixing on rhymesayers.com, 14 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
2.3 s1.9 sMay 16Oct 312.2 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20262.0 s
May 23, 20261.9 s
May 30, 20261.9 s
Jun 6, 20262.0 s
Jun 13, 20262.1 s
Jun 20, 20262.1 s
Jun 27, 20262.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20262.1 s
Jul 18, 20262.2 s
Jul 25, 20262.3 s
Aug 1, 20262.2 s
Aug 8, 20262.2 s
Aug 15, 20262.1 s
Aug 22, 20262.2 s
Aug 29, 20262.2 s
Sep 5, 20262.2 s
Sep 12, 20262.3 s
Sep 19, 20262.2 s
Sep 26, 20262.2 s
Oct 3, 20262.2 s
Oct 10, 20262.1 s
Oct 17, 20262.1 s
Oct 24, 20262.1 s
Oct 31, 20262.2 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
134 ms106 msMay 16Oct 31110 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026112 ms
May 23, 2026111 ms
May 30, 2026109 ms
Jun 6, 2026113 ms
Jun 13, 2026118 ms
Jun 20, 2026120 ms
Jun 27, 2026121 ms
Jul 4, 2026123 ms
Jul 11, 2026126 ms
Jul 18, 2026129 ms
Jul 25, 2026131 ms
Aug 1, 2026128 ms
Aug 8, 2026128 ms
Aug 15, 2026128 ms
Aug 22, 2026128 ms
Aug 29, 2026126 ms
Sep 5, 2026127 ms
Sep 12, 2026123 ms
Sep 19, 2026121 ms
Sep 26, 2026120 ms
Oct 3, 2026117 ms
Oct 10, 2026113 ms
Oct 17, 2026111 ms
Oct 24, 2026109 ms
Oct 31, 2026110 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 rhymesayers.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. rhymesayers.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  2. rhymesayers.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  3. rhymesayers.com at 3.6 s3.6 s
  4. rhymesayers.com at 4.9 s4.9 s
  5. rhymesayers.com at 6.1 s6.1 s
  6. rhymesayers.com at 7.3 s7.3 s
  7. rhymesayers.com at 8.5 s8.5 s
  8. rhymesayers.com at 9.7 s9.7 s

Speed

11 to fix35
  • Improve image delivery

    3.1 s · 712 KiB

    11 images could be 712 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.1 s faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 11.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 11.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 5.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 10,175 HTML elements

    The page has 10,175 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Mobile performance score: 35

    35/100

    Your mobile performance score is 35. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 1.4 s. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (YouTube, minmaxify.com and Hotjar and others), adding 1.4 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.0 MB

    About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    995 KiB

    22 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (995 KiB).

  • YouTube adds 587 ms

    587 ms

    YouTube costs a phone 587 ms of main-thread work and 980 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 216 KiB

    About 216 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    600 ms

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.

  • Minify JavaScript

    140 ms · 2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    46 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 46 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: 30 ms

    30 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 30 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 11.2 s

    11.2 s

    Your largest element takes 11.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “AESOP ROCK X BLOCKHEAD - TROUBLE MOUNTAIN”.

  • Time to Interactive: 26.9 s

    26.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 26.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 13.2 s

    13.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 13.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.5 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 112 ms to 110 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

7 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: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Real visitors wait 2.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 183 ms

    183 ms

    Real visitors wait 183 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.09

    0.09

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.09 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 356 ms

    356 ms

    Real visitors wait 356 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.073

    0.073

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.073, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 6.0 MB in 236 requests

    6.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 6.0 MB in 236 requests on a phone: images 2.6 MB (45), scripts 2.1 MB (82) and other files 687 KiB (82). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (21 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.71 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.71 g of CO₂e: 205.6 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 are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

11 to fixGoogle 10087
  • Invalid ARIA attributes

    243 elements use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

  • 14 text elements with low contrast

    14 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 16 images without alt text

    16 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (511 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 511 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)

    Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails 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.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • 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.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 8 links without text

    8 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 5 form fields without a label

    5 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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  • 41 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: 41 passed and 10 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 9277
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Title is short (11 characters)

    Your title is only 11 characters: “Rhymesayers”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (ItemList, Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: potentialAction.target is not an absolute URL ("https://rhymesayers.com/search?q={search_term_string}")”.

  • 2 links crawlers can't follow

    2 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 520 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 520 pages on rhymesayers.com and 0 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 103 characters

    Your meta description is 103 characters: “Independent Hip Hop since 1995. Official Rhymesayers Store: CDs, Vinyl, Apparel, Accessories, and more.”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • 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://rhymesayers.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 (2,642 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 6 pages without a meta description

    https://rhymesayers.com/collections/all, https://rhymesayers.com/collections/music, https://rhymesayers.com/collections/new-music, https://rhymesayers.com/collections/topsellers, https://rhymesayers.com/collections/vinyl and https://rhymesayers.com/collections/apparel-accessories have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 174 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    6 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • 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.

  • 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 6 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 7391
  • 5 third-party cookies

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

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

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

  • Browser-reported issues

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

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    19 of 19 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. 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 2,181 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 2,181 words of visible text.

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  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Newsletter Sign Up” and “Contact Us”.

  • 6 short forms

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Hotjar.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 2 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.

  • 26 cookies set on arrival

    26

    Opening the homepage sets 26 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.

  • 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 rhymesayers.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 9 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Gorgias Live Chat Helpdesk · Minmaxify Order Limits · Attentive · elfsight.com · pxucdn.com · jst.ai · attn.tv · kiwisizing.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
Hotjar
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Founded
1995
Headquarters
Minneapolis

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

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