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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202626 issues · 49 checks

This review found 26 issues worth fixing on sherpani.com, 8 of them high impact, across 49 checks. The most urgent: homepage answers HTTP 429. 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
1.5 s1.2 sMay 16Oct 311.2 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.3 s
May 23, 20261.3 s
May 30, 20261.3 s
Jun 6, 20261.2 s
Jun 13, 20261.2 s
Jun 20, 20261.2 s
Jun 27, 20261.2 s
Jul 4, 20261.3 s
Jul 11, 20261.3 s
Jul 18, 20261.2 s
Jul 25, 20261.3 s
Aug 1, 20261.3 s
Aug 8, 20261.3 s
Aug 15, 20261.4 s
Aug 22, 20261.4 s
Aug 29, 20261.5 s
Sep 5, 20261.5 s
Sep 12, 20261.5 s
Sep 19, 20261.5 s
Sep 26, 20261.4 s
Oct 3, 20261.4 s
Oct 10, 20261.3 s
Oct 17, 20261.3 s
Oct 24, 20261.3 s
Oct 31, 20261.2 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
153 ms88 msMay 16Oct 31129 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202696 ms
May 23, 202695 ms
May 30, 202696 ms
Jun 6, 202699 ms
Jun 13, 202699 ms
Jun 20, 2026102 ms
Jun 27, 2026102 ms
Jul 4, 2026103 ms
Jul 11, 2026104 ms
Jul 18, 2026104 ms
Jul 25, 2026107 ms
Aug 1, 2026112 ms
Aug 8, 2026121 ms
Aug 15, 2026135 ms
Aug 22, 2026131 ms
Aug 29, 2026131 ms
Sep 5, 2026134 ms
Sep 12, 2026136 ms
Sep 19, 2026141 ms
Sep 26, 2026145 ms
Oct 3, 2026145 ms
Oct 10, 2026141 ms
Oct 17, 2026137 ms
Oct 24, 2026135 ms
Oct 31, 2026129 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

1 to fix100
  • Tap response (INP) got 38% slower for real visitors

    +38%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 129 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

6 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    Real visitors wait 1.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 128 ms

    128 ms

    Real visitors wait 128 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 462 ms

    462 ms

    Real visitors wait 462 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Images and page weight

3 to fix65
  • Page weight: 2.5 MB

    2.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.5 MB on a phone, 1.5 MB of it images (59%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 9 images in older formats

    9 images (1.1 MB) 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.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    121 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example HOEMPAGE_MOBILE_copy_59194b30-431f-44a2-9312-268e90ae0c58.we at 1,556 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 121 KiB.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.71 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.71 g of CO₂e: 85.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

Accessibility

6 to fix92
  • 20 tap targets too small

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

  • Summary elements must have discernible text (1 element)

    Summary elements must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (7 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Heading levels should only increase by one (2 elements)

    Heading levels should only increase by one: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

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

  • 4 links without text

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

1 checks passed
  • 47 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 47 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

7 to fix68
  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • Title is short (28 characters)

    Your title is only 28 characters: “Verifying your connection...”. 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.

  • Only 0 internal links

    The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

3 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Your connection needs to be verified before you can proceed”.

  • 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://sherpani.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
1 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.

Best practices

2 to fix78
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=343117693&Ver=2&mid=8fc5c530-e1df-451a-8df0-65b8780108f3&bo=1&sid=cdc270e0d9a711f1843c595511a43f6d&vid=cdc29890d9a711f1b5a96128a749160d&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&l.

  • 32 small tap targets

    32 of 56 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

6 to fix17
  • Homepage answers HTTP 429

    Your homepage answered with HTTP 429, so visitors and search engines may see an error page.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • About 827 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 827 words of visible text.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Klaviyo, Microsoft Ads 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.

  • 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.

  • 23 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 23 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 sherpani.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

No apps were seen in the code your storefront loads.

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

Hiring

Hiring
2 open roles
Job board
smartrecruiters

Company

Headquarters
Boulder

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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