shadowboxes.com website review

11 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 7.1 s.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.0 MB).

About 705 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.4 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 56. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 103 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

5 third-party services load with your homepage (Heroku, LiveChat and Shopify and others), adding 1.5 MB and 205 ms of main-thread time.

Heroku costs a phone 112 ms of main-thread work and 1.0 MB 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.

LiveChat costs a phone 75 ms of main-thread work and 367 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 15 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 146 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

5 images could be 42 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The first text or image appears after 9.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 15.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Extra Large Shadowboxes”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 15.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 9.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 3.3 MB in 185 requests on a phone: scripts 1.8 MB (59), other files 771 KiB (97) and fonts 404 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.93 g of CO₂e: 111.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 32 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

17 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

3 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h4 and h4 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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

Your title is 82 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Shadow Boxes Display Cases | USA Manufacturer | Large, Deep & Custom – Shadowboxes”.

Your meta description is 315 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

4 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 171 pages on shadowboxes.com and 20 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://shadowboxes.com/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.

https://shadowboxes.com/pages/wishlist has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://shadowboxes.com/products/designer-metal-frame-shadowbox-swingframes-1-deep and https://shadowboxes.com/products/swingframe-designer-metal-framed-shadowbox-4-deep have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 69 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

24 of 53 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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

Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

The homepage carries about 1,029 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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.

Opening the homepage sets 14 cookies, 4 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.