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sipology.ca website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 26 October 202635 issues · 77 checks
This review found 35 issues worth fixing on sipology.ca, 13 of them high impact, across 77 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
77C- #60,574 of 107,732 reviewed websitesbeats 39%
- #39,206 of 60,952 online storesbeats 31%
- #37,352 of 55,618 Shopify storesbeats 28%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.3 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 103 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 102 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 87 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
2.0 s
2.9 s
3.9 s
4.9 s
5.9 s
6.8 s
7.8 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
7.1 s · 1.3 MBAbout 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 7.1 s faster on a phone.
Avoid multiple page redirects
5.7 sThe page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 5.7 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.
Minify JavaScript
1.7 s · 169 KiB169 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Main-thread work: 7.7 s
A phone's processor spends 7.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Mobile performance score: 53
53/100Your mobile performance score is 53. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Klaviyo and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 1.7 MB and 286 ms of main-thread time.
Shopify adds 224 ms
224 msShopify costs a phone 224 ms of main-thread work and 1.4 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.
Legacy JavaScript
300 ms · 56 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 56 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
8 long tasks on the main thread
8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 178 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
100 ms · 14 KiB6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (14 KiB).
Minify CSS
6 KiB6 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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 10 ms
10 msYour server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 25.9 s
25.9 sYour largest element takes 25.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s.
Time to Interactive: 36.2 s
36.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 36.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 9.5 s
9.5 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 4.1 s
4.1 sThe first text or image appears after 4.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 258 ms
258 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 258 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 87 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.3 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 this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 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: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 332 ms
332 msReal visitors wait 332 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 9.2 MB in 627 requests
9.2 MBYour homepage downloads 9.2 MB in 627 requests on a phone: scripts 3.3 MB (223), images 3.3 MB (57) and other files 1.5 MB (270). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 2.6 g of CO₂ per visit
2.61 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.61 g of CO₂e: 312.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
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
11 text elements with low contrast
11 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 images without alt text
2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (9 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 9 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.
1 checks passed
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Title is short (29 characters)
Your title is only 29 characters: “Sipology Canada – Sipology.ca”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
4 links crawlers can't follow
4 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
130 internal links, 15 external
The homepage links to 130 pages on sipology.ca and 15 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 153 characters
Your meta description is 153 characters: “A Dragons' Den success and female-owned business. Sipology offers Canada's finest loose leaf tea and matcha. Experience…”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.sipology.ca/.
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://www.sipology.ca/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles), 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.
2 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.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.sipology.ca/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
3 pages without a meta description
https://www.sipology.ca/collections/memory-support, https://www.sipology.ca/pages/weight-management and https://www.sipology.ca/pages/quit-coffee-in-7-days have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages share a meta description
https://www.sipology.ca/collections/shop-tea and https://www.sipology.ca/collections/loose-leaf use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 link to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://www.sipology.ca/collections/gutbalance, whose canonical is https://www.sipology.ca/collections/gutbalance-gut-health-fibre-drink. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
13 pages without an H1
https://www.sipology.ca/collections/shop-wellness, https://www.sipology.ca/collections/gutbalance, https://www.sipology.ca/pages/weight-management, https://www.sipology.ca/collections/nutritional-boosts, https://www.sipology.ca/collections/medicinal-herbs and https://www.sipology.ca/collections/functional-lattes and 7 others 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 51 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
Deprecated browser APIs
The page uses 2 deprecated browser APIs that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).
2 small tap targets
2 of 6 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
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
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 25 words
The homepage has only about 25 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
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.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shopping Canada Click here to Shop USA”.
16 calls to action
The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Shop Wellness”, “Shop Matcha” and “Shop Tea”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo (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.
19 cookies set on arrival
19Opening the homepage sets 19 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
34 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 34 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 sipology.ca, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify Hosted
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 35 issues on sipology.ca, including 13 speed issues, 3 SEO issues and 6 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
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- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
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- Earned media and PR openings
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