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rocksolars.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202617 issues · 73 checks
This review found 17 issues worth fixing on rocksolars.com, 2 of them high impact, across 73 checks. The most urgent: 2 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
91A- #1,279 of 97,467 reviewed websitesbeats 98%
- #556 of 53,052 online storesbeats 98%
- #530 of 48,100 Shopify storesbeats 98%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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Speed
Mobile performance score: 89
89/100Your mobile performance score is 89. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Shopify adds 427 ms
427 msShopify costs a phone 427 ms of main-thread work and 735 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.
Main-thread work: 3.2 s
A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 891 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
2,483 HTML elements
The page has 2,483 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, shop.app and Google Fonts and others), adding 910 KiB and 445 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
113 KiBAbout 113 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Improve image delivery
74 KiB3 images could be 74 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 60 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
35 KiB8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (35 KiB).
Minify JavaScript
30 KiB30 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Reduce unused CSS
15 KiBAbout 15 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
10 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 10 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: 14 ms
14 msYour server sent the HTML in 14 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Speed Index: 6.0 s
6.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s
2.5 sThe first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 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.
4 checks passed
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.5 s
2.5 sYour largest element renders in 2.5 s on a phone, inside Google's 2.5 s “good” threshold. The largest element is the text “Complete systems, well pumps and pool pumps — sized from wh…”.
Time to Interactive: 3.7 s
3.7 sThe page is fully interactive after 3.7 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.004
0.004The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.004, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 10 ms
10 msScripts block the page for only 10 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.8 MB in 429 requests
3.8 MBYour homepage downloads 3.8 MB in 429 requests on a phone: images 1.6 MB (54), other files 1.0 MB (182) and scripts 810 KiB (154). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (80 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.09 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.09 g of CO₂e: 130.6 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 are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
2 text elements with low contrast
2 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 (7 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
62 links without text
62 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h2 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 87 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Canonical points to another host
Your canonical URL points to rocksolar.io, not rocksolars.com, so Google may credit that host instead.
Meta description is long (164 characters)
Your meta description is 164 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
Structured data has 2 problems
Structured data found (LocalBusiness, Organization and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Organization: sameAs is an empty list”.
234 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 234 pages on rocksolars.com and 7 external pages.
5 checks passed
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Tell us what you need to run. We'll tell you exactly what to buy.”.
Title: 60 characters
Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “Solar Systems, Panels, Batteries and Water Pumps | ROCKSOLAR”.
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://rocksolars.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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, description and contact details; logo and sameAs (social profiles) would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,187 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://rocksolars.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 linked pages hidden from search
https://rocksolars.com/collections/all and https://rocksolars.com/collections/individual-solar-panels are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.
1 page without a meta description
https://rocksolars.com/collections/all has 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 83 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 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.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught Error: Goaffpro is already loaded. This message prevents duplicate loading of the script. Kindly ignore.”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
94 of 99 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 681 words of copy
The homepage carries about 681 words of visible text.
9 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop”.
16 calls to action
The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Shop Collection”, “Shop” and “Toggle Shop submenu”.
12 short forms
12 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 34 testimonial or review blocks, 1 customer or partner logo and a star rating.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 2 email links.
Opening hours shown
Your opening hours are on the homepage.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
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
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.
9 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 9 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 rocksolars.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 6 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
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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
- Bootstrap
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
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