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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202623 issues · 62 checks

This review found 23 issues worth fixing on sharkninja.com, 9 of them high impact, across 62 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

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  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.5 s2.2 sApr 18Oct 32.7 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20262.5 s
Apr 25, 20262.5 s
May 2, 20262.5 s
May 9, 20262.5 s
May 16, 20262.7 s
May 23, 20262.9 s
May 30, 20263.1 s
Jun 6, 20263.3 s
Jun 13, 20263.4 s
Jun 20, 20263.3 s
Jun 27, 20263.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.9 s
Jul 11, 20262.7 s
Jul 18, 20262.6 s
Jul 25, 20262.7 s
Aug 1, 20262.7 s
Aug 8, 20262.7 s
Aug 15, 20262.7 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.5 s
Sep 5, 20262.4 s
Sep 12, 20262.4 s
Sep 19, 20262.5 s
Sep 26, 20262.6 s
Oct 3, 20262.7 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
265 ms168 msApr 18Oct 3254 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 2026179 ms
Apr 25, 2026182 ms
May 2, 2026187 ms
May 9, 2026187 ms
May 16, 2026187 ms
May 23, 2026187 ms
May 30, 2026189 ms
Jun 6, 2026195 ms
Jun 13, 2026198 ms
Jun 20, 2026201 ms
Jun 27, 2026203 ms
Jul 4, 2026199 ms
Jul 11, 2026196 ms
Jul 18, 2026202 ms
Jul 25, 2026205 ms
Aug 1, 2026216 ms
Aug 8, 2026228 ms
Aug 15, 2026230 ms
Aug 22, 2026231 ms
Aug 29, 2026230 ms
Sep 5, 2026231 ms
Sep 12, 2026237 ms
Sep 19, 2026245 ms
Sep 26, 2026253 ms
Oct 3, 2026254 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

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix0
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

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

  • Real-user CLS: 0.39

    0.39

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.39 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 250 ms

    250 ms

    Real visitors wait 250 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 40% slower for real visitors

    +40%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 179 ms to 254 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors wait 1.0 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 checks passed
  • 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.

Images and page weight

2 to fix64
  • Page weight: 5.7 MB

    5.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.7 MB on a phone, 245 KiB of it images (4%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    FS701Series_HomePage_Marquee_PreRelease_Mobile 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).

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (62 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 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.61 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.61 g of CO₂e: 193.2 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

8 to fix90
  • Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (24 elements)

    Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 24 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children (5 elements)

    Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • 25 tap targets too small

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

  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Zoom is disabled

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

  • 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.

  • Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored (24 elements)

    Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 24 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h4, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 92 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 50 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: 50 passed and 8 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

100
  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

  • 406 internal links, 45 external

    The homepage links to 406 pages on sharkninja.com and 45 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 154 characters

    Your meta description is 154 characters: “Shop Shark and Ninja products: vacuums, air fryers, hair dryers, red light masks & more. Free shipping on $99+ orders. …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Welcome to SharkNinja”.

  • Title: 49 characters

    Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “SharkNinja | Kitchen Appliances, Vacuums & Beauty”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.sharkninja.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://www.sharkninja.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

100
  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://www.sharkninja.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.

3 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: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,642 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://www.sharkninja.com/order-status has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 7 pages without an H1

    https://www.sharkninja.com/order-status, https://www.sharkninja.com/discover/trending-now/practical-magic, https://www.sharkninja.com/discover/trending-now/shark-beauty-limited-edition-collections, https://www.sharkninja.com/discover/trending-now/breast-cancer-research-foundation, https://www.sharkninja.com/creami-diet and https://www.sharkninja.com/discover/collaborations/marilyn-monroe-collection 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 190 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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

3 to fix71
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://verifi.pdscrb.com/tag?action=view&user_id=30a6f746-1c4d-44d2-8996-3528316e9313&advertiser=sharkbeauty&referrer=_&session_referrer=_&session_landing_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharkninja.com%2F&devi.

  • 33 small tap targets

    33 of 110 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

    6 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 ()”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix79
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • 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.

  • About 1,051 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,051 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop now” and “Shop deals”.

  • 32 calls to action

    The homepage has 32 calls to action, for example “Register a product”, “Order Status” and “join”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Cloudflare Web Analytics.

  • 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

  • 11 trackers load before any consent

    11

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel and 6 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 50 cookies set on arrival

    50

    Opening the homepage sets 50 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • 60 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 60 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: Cookiebot

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

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

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Analytics
Google Tag Manager

Company

Founded
1994
Headquarters
Needham

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