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sewingmachinesplus.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202634 issues · 86 checks
This review found 34 issues worth fixing on sewingmachinesplus.com, 14 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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
78C- #48,172 of 94,991 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #30,053 of 51,117 online storesbeats 36%
- #28,600 of 46,236 Shopify storesbeats 33%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 180 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 185 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 193 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 205 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 213 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 221 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 231 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 246 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 270 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 292 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 312 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 316 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 321 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 328 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 345 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 355 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 370 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 361 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 329 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 314 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
How it loaded on a phone
1.0 s
2.1 s
3.1 s
4.2 s
5.2 s
6.3 s
7.3 s
8.4 s
Speed
8,462 HTML elements
The page has 8,462 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Main-thread work: 6.8 s
A phone's processor spends 6.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, CallRail and Hotjar and others), adding 2.3 MB and 1.5 s of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 51
51/100Your mobile performance score is 51. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
400 ms · 381 KiB10 images could be 381 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 400 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused JavaScript
781 KiBAbout 781 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Render-blocking requests
500 ms8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.
Google Tag Manager adds 390 ms
390 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 390 ms of main-thread work and 516 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.
Klaviyo adds 230 ms
230 msKlaviyo costs a phone 230 ms of main-thread work and 522 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.
CallRail adds 273 ms
273 msCallRail costs a phone 273 ms of main-thread work and 21 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.
Shopify adds 87 ms
87 msShopify costs a phone 87 ms of main-thread work and 363 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.
userway.org adds 75 ms
75 msuserway.org costs a phone 75 ms of main-thread work and 444 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.
17 long tasks on the main thread
17 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 246 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
223 KiB19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (223 KiB).
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 64 KiBAbout 64 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
47 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 47 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Minify CSS
10 KiB10 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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: 26 ms
26 msYour server sent the HTML in 26 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
Time to Interactive: 25.9 s
25.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 25.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.6 s
6.6 sYour largest element takes 6.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Speed Index: 8.6 s
8.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 714 ms
714 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 714 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user INP: 354 ms
354 msReal visitors wait 354 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 76% slower for real visitors
+76%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 180 ms to 314 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
0%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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Real-user LCP: 2.2 s
2.2 sReal visitors wait 2.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
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: 1.8 s
1.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 664 ms
664 msReal visitors wait 664 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s
1.4 sThe first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.011
0.011The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.011, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.1 MB in 359 requests
5.1 MBYour homepage downloads 5.1 MB in 359 requests on a phone: scripts 2.4 MB (185), other files 1.1 MB (114) and images 1.1 MB (37). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Home_Slider_Mobile_Arrow_Holiday_Free_Chair.webp is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
4 images in older formats
4 images (295 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 1.4 g of CO₂ per visit
1.44 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.44 g of CO₂e: 173.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Invalid ARIA attributes
10 elements use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
16 tap targets too small
16 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
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.
9 images without alt text
9 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
53 links without text
53 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
1 checks passed
53 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 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
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
1,275 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 1,275 pages on sewingmachinesplus.com and 0 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 141 characters
Your meta description is 141 characters: “Shop sewing, quilting and embroidery machines from Bernina, Brother, Juki and more. 50+ years of expert help, 0% financ…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Sewing Machines Plus”.
Title: 53 characters
Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “Sewing & Embroidery Machines | Juki, Bernina, Brother”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://sewingmachinesplus.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, 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://sewingmachinesplus.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 (3,448 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://sewingmachinesplus.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://sewingmachinesplus.com/collections/multi-needle-embroidery-machines has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
7 pages without an H1
https://sewingmachinesplus.com/pages/sewing-machines, https://sewingmachinesplus.com/collections/multi-needle-embroidery-machines, https://sewingmachinesplus.com/collections/embroidery-machines, https://sewingmachinesplus.com/collections/domestic-sewing-machines, https://sewingmachinesplus.com/collections/long-arm-quilting-machines and https://sewingmachinesplus.com/collections/sit-down-machines and 1 other 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 196 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
7 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://sewingmachinesplus.com/.
5 JavaScript errors while loading
5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
51 of 63 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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.
About 702 words of copy
The homepage carries about 702 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
6 checks passed
1 call to action
The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Call Us Today 800-401-8151”.
2 short forms
2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 8 testimonial or review blocks and 2 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity and Hotjar.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 0 email links.
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
9 trackers load before any consent
9Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Criteo, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar and 4 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.
23 cookies set on arrival
23Opening the homepage sets 23 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.
47 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 47 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 sewingmachinesplus.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 13 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Pandectes Gdpr · Kx Ai Collections · Hulk Form Builder · Judge Me Reviews · Ai Product Description Chatgpt · Microsoft Clarity · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Gdpr Cookie Consent · Kimonix · Automated Descriptions Writing · itoris.com · nofraud.com · cloudfront.net
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
- Google Tag Manager | Hotjar | Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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