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sandekids.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202621 issues · 74 checks
This review found 21 issues worth fixing on sandekids.com, 5 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 12.7 MB in 266 requests. 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
88B- #5,226 of 108,833 reviewed websitesbeats 93%
- #2,908 of 61,763 online storesbeats 93%
- #2,825 of 56,363 Shopify storesbeats 92%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 968 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 952 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 936 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 911 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 893 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 902 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 910 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 900 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 932 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 908 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 873 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 888 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 870 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 866 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 897 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 896 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 928 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 919 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 887 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 842 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 822 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 821 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 854 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 871 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 914 ms |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 95 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 92 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 89 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: 79
79/100Your mobile performance score is 79. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
900 ms6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 110 KiB6 images could be 110 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
2,510 HTML elements
The page has 2,510 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
7 third-party services on the page
7 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Klaviyo and okendo.io and others), adding 521 KiB and 162 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
57 KiBAbout 57 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
20 KiB6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (20 KiB).
Legacy JavaScript
19 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 19 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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Main-thread work: 1.5 s
A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 452 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 8 ms
8 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.5 s
5.5 sYour largest element takes 5.5 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: 5.5 s
5.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 5.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-6%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 89 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.0 s to 0.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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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: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors wait 1.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 88 ms
88 msReal visitors wait 88 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 0.8 s
0.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 396 ms
396 msReal visitors wait 396 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Speed Index: 3.3 s
3.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 12.7 MB in 266 requests
12.7 MBYour homepage downloads 12.7 MB in 266 requests on a phone: media 10.0 MB (2), images 1.0 MB (45) and other files 861 KiB (99). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
3 images below the first screen load straight away
3 images further down the page (86 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 3.6 g of CO₂ per visit
3.61 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.61 g of CO₂e: 432.8 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
9 text elements with low contrast
9 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Hidden but focusable
1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
2 images without alt text
2 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.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).
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50 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (79 characters)
Your title is 79 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Sande Kids™ | Family Beach Products & Accessories Online Store – Sande Kids LLC”.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“” and “The perfect beach bag does exist...”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
Meta description is long (161 characters)
Your meta description is 161 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
98 internal links, 6 external
The homepage links to 98 pages on sandekids.com and 6 external pages.
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Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://sandekids.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://sandekids.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, 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 (1,537 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://sandekids.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://sandekids.com/collections/shop-all-1 and https://sandekids.com/collections/shop-all all use the title “SHOP ALL – Sande Kids LLC”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
3 pages without a meta description
https://sandekids.com/collections/shop-all-1, https://sandekids.com/blogs/blog and https://sandekids.com/collections/shop-all have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 links to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://sandekids.com/products/beach-hauler%E2%84%A2-beach-backpack-banabae-x-sande, whose canonical is https://sandekids.com/products/beach-hauler%e2%84%a2-beach-backpack-banabae-x-sande. 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 38 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
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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
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
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Tap targets are thumb-sized
17 of 18 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 3 trust badges. 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 540 words of copy
The homepage carries about 540 words of visible text.
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Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP MESH BEACH BAGS”.
17 calls to action
The homepage has 17 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Shop All” and “Shop mesh beach bags”.
6 short forms
6 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Meta Pixel.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 1 more (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.
16 cookies set on arrival
16Opening the homepage sets 16 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.
24 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 24 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 sandekids.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 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Okendo · Wholesale Gorilla · Instafeed · Orbe Geolocation · Bestpush · Discount Genie · Selleasy
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
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
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