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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202645 issues · 84 checks

This review found 45 issues worth fixing on sephora.cn, 13 of them high impact, across 84 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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

Full-page screenshot of sephora.cn (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. sephora.cn at 4.4 s4.4 s
  2. sephora.cn at 8.7 s8.7 s
  3. sephora.cn at 13.1 s13.1 s
  4. sephora.cn at 17.4 s17.4 s
  5. sephora.cn at 21.8 s21.8 s
  6. sephora.cn at 26.1 s26.1 s
  7. sephora.cn at 30.5 s30.5 s
  8. sephora.cn at 34.9 s34.9 s

Speed

9 to fix56
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    2.9 s · 900 KiB

    58 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (900 KiB).

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.2 s · 164 KiB

    About 164 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    900 ms · 611 KiB

    14 images could be 611 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 56

    56/100

    Your mobile performance score is 56 (desktop: 94). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Avoid multiple page redirects

    780 ms

    The page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 780 ms. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    450 ms · 54 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 54 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    450 ms

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 11 KiB

    About 11 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.

  • sephorastatic.cn adds 56 ms

    56 ms

    sephorastatic.cn costs a phone 56 ms of main-thread work and 540 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.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (aliyuncs.com, sephorastatic.cn and Baidu Analytics and others), adding 653 KiB and 229 ms of main-thread time.

  • Document request latency

    250 ms

    The HTML itself could arrive about 250 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 121 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 94 but mobile only 56. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 674 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

8 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.5 s

    10.5 s

    Your largest element takes 10.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.5 s

    5.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.3 s

    10.3 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.6 s

    10.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    Real visitors wait 3.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors wait 1.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

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  • Real-user INP: 94 ms

    94 ms

    Real visitors wait 94 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.08

    0.08

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.08 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 71 ms

    71 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 71 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.003

    0.003

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.003, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

100
  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (345 KiB) is 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 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: 56.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 1.6 MB in 127 requests

    1.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.6 MB in 127 requests on a phone: images 976 KiB (53), scripts 585 KiB (35) and fonts 43 KiB (1). That is a lean page.

  • 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

5 to fixGoogle 8091
  • 4 tap targets too small

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

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (16 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 16 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • No page language

    The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

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  • 32 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 36 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 32 passed and 4 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

8 to fixGoogle 8365
  • No H1 headline

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

  • Title is short (23 characters)

    Your title is only 23 characters: “SEPHORA丝芙兰官网-国际化妆品购物网站!”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

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

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at http://www.sephora.cn/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • Only 3 internal links

    The homepage links to only 3 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

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  • Meta description: 92 characters

    Your meta description is 92 characters: “SEPHORA丝芙兰化妆品购物网站-法国路威酩轩(LVMH)旗下品牌,为您提供国际知名化妆品、护肤品、彩妆、香水等美容用品,购买正品化妆品,就上丝芙兰化妆品网站,官方授权、无障碍退货!”.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • 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 https://www.sephora.cn/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.

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  • 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.

Other pages

3 to fix86
  • 3 pages share a title

    https://www.sephora.cn/content/usage, https://www.sephora.cn/content/declaration and https://www.sephora.cn/campaign/prepaidcard20190113 all use the title “SEPHORA丝芙兰官网-国际化妆品购物网站!”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 3 pages share a meta description

    https://www.sephora.cn/content/usage, https://www.sephora.cn/content/declaration and https://www.sephora.cn/campaign/prepaidcard20190113 use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 3 pages without an H1

    https://www.sephora.cn/content/usage, https://www.sephora.cn/content/declaration and https://www.sephora.cn/campaign/prepaidcard20190113 have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 3 pages with very little text

    https://www.sephora.cn/content/usage, https://www.sephora.cn/content/declaration and https://www.sephora.cn/campaign/prepaidcard20190113 have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 3 pages slow to respond

    https://www.sephora.cn/content/usage, https://www.sephora.cn/content/declaration and https://www.sephora.cn/campaign/prepaidcard20190113 took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 3 internal pages checked

    We fetched 3 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 3 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 3 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 3 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

5 to fixGoogle 5459
  • No mobile viewport

    No viewport meta tag, so phones render the desktop layout zoomed out.

  • 10 small tap targets

    10 of 33 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 third-party cookies

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

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

  • Browser-reported issues

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

Content and conversion

6 to fix33
  • 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 calls to action

    We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 9 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • 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.

  • Only about 55 words

    The homepage has only about 55 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No form on the homepage

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

  • 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.

Privacy and tracking

  • 10 cookies set on arrival

    10

    Opening the homepage sets 10 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.

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  • 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 sephora.cn, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
React
Hosting
Ml 1432

Company

Founded
1969
Headquarters
Neuilly-sur-Seine

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