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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202635 issues · 85 checks

This review found 35 issues worth fixing on rubios.com, 13 of them high impact, across 85 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
2.7 s2.1 sMay 9Oct 242.3 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20262.4 s
May 16, 20262.4 s
May 23, 20262.4 s
May 30, 20262.4 s
Jun 6, 20262.4 s
Jun 13, 20262.4 s
Jun 20, 20262.4 s
Jun 27, 20262.5 s
Jul 4, 20262.6 s
Jul 11, 20262.6 s
Jul 18, 20262.6 s
Jul 25, 20262.5 s
Aug 1, 20262.4 s
Aug 8, 20262.3 s
Aug 15, 20262.3 s
Aug 22, 20262.3 s
Aug 29, 20262.3 s
Sep 5, 20262.2 s
Sep 12, 20262.2 s
Sep 19, 20262.2 s
Sep 26, 20262.2 s
Oct 3, 20262.2 s
Oct 10, 20262.2 s
Oct 17, 20262.2 s
Oct 24, 20262.3 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
141 ms102 msMay 9Oct 24106 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026129 ms
May 16, 2026129 ms
May 23, 2026129 ms
May 30, 2026129 ms
Jun 6, 2026129 ms
Jun 13, 2026129 ms
Jun 20, 2026130 ms
Jun 27, 2026130 ms
Jul 4, 2026130 ms
Jul 11, 2026130 ms
Jul 18, 2026130 ms
Jul 25, 2026129 ms
Aug 1, 2026130 ms
Aug 8, 2026130 ms
Aug 15, 2026135 ms
Aug 22, 2026136 ms
Aug 29, 2026131 ms
Sep 5, 2026127 ms
Sep 12, 2026119 ms
Sep 19, 2026112 ms
Sep 26, 2026111 ms
Oct 3, 2026108 ms
Oct 10, 2026108 ms
Oct 17, 2026108 ms
Oct 24, 2026106 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 rubios.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. rubios.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. rubios.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. rubios.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. rubios.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. rubios.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. rubios.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. rubios.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  8. rubios.com at 3.2 s3.2 s

Speed

10 to fix41
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    5.2 s · 915 KiB

    About 915 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.0 s

    17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 41

    41/100

    Your mobile performance score is 41 (desktop: 40). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Improve image delivery

    700 ms · 1.6 MB

    8 images could be 1.6 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 700 ms faster on a phone.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Optanon, Google Tag Manager and Accessibe Accessibility Overlay and others), adding 1.2 MB and 505 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 209 KiB

    About 209 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    400 ms · 73 KiB

    8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (73 KiB).

  • Main-thread work: 3.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 11 long tasks on the main thread

    11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 332 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • FontAwesome CDN adds 0 ms

    0 ms

    FontAwesome CDN costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 556 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    200 ms · 19 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 19 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 4 KiB

    4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Font display

    150 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 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.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 39 ms

    39 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 39 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 40.7 s

    40.7 s

    Your largest element takes 40.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 41.5 s

    41.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 41.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 7.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 567 ms

    567 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 567 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 9 images without width and height

    9 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.4 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

8 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: 2.5 s

    2.5 s

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

  • Real-user INP: 112 ms

    112 ms

    Real visitors wait 112 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.10

    0.10

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.10 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 566 ms

    566 ms

    Real visitors wait 566 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 17% faster for real visitors

    -17%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 129 ms to 106 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 11.4 MB in 176 requests

    11.4 MB

    Your homepage downloads 11.4 MB in 176 requests on a phone: images 6.5 MB (92), other files 2.2 MB (27) and scripts 1.6 MB (26). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 5 images in older formats

    5 images (464 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • About 3.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.24 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.24 g of CO₂e: 388.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 9694
  • 3 tap targets too small

    3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 38 images without alt text

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

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored (1 element)

    Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

1 checks passed
  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 2 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 9280
  • No H1 headline

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

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is long (168 characters)

    Your meta description is 168 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 6 links with vague text

    6 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:title, 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.

  • 40 internal links, 24 external

    The homepage links to 40 pages on rubios.com and 24 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Title: 55 characters

    Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Rubio’s Coastal Grill – Baja-Inspired Fish Tacos & More”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • 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://rubios.com/wp-sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (520 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

3 to fix65
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to /colabros-all-world-breakfast-burrito, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 1 page without a meta description

    /author/robgadmin has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 14 pages without an H1

    /catering, /gift-cards, /about-us, /rewards, /author/robgadmin and /new-menu and 8 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 21 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • 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.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9287
  • 9 small tap targets

    9 of 32 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 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 low-resolution images

    2 images are served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix64
  • 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 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 opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 394 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 394 words of visible text.

3 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “ORDER CATERING” and “ORDER NOW”.

  • 12 calls to action

    The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “Order Catering”, “Order Now” and “start here”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Privacy and tracking

  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: OneTrust

    A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Cloudflare

Company

Founded
1983
Headquarters
Carlsbad

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