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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202631 issues · 79 checks

This review found 31 issues worth fixing on snowdays.com, 11 of them high impact, across 79 checks. The most urgent: avoid multiple page redirects. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

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

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

Full-page screenshot of snowdays.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. snowdays.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  2. snowdays.com at 2.1 s2.1 s
  3. snowdays.com at 3.2 s3.2 s
  4. snowdays.com at 4.3 s4.3 s
  5. snowdays.com at 5.3 s5.3 s
  6. snowdays.com at 6.4 s6.4 s
  7. snowdays.com at 7.5 s7.5 s
  8. snowdays.com at 8.5 s8.5 s

Speed

10 to fix56
  • Avoid multiple page redirects

    5.4 s

    The page goes through 3 redirects before it starts loading, costing about 5.4 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.9 s · 433 KiB

    About 433 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.4 s

    8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    900 ms · 168 KiB

    About 168 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 56

    56/100

    Your mobile performance score is 56. 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 (eatagainsthegrain.com, Klaviyo and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 1.9 MB and 545 ms of main-thread time.

  • Document request latency

    400 ms

    The HTML itself could arrive about 400 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • eatagainsthegrain.com adds 209 ms

    209 ms

    eatagainsthegrain.com costs a phone 209 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 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.

  • Klaviyo adds 158 ms

    158 ms

    Klaviyo costs a phone 158 ms of main-thread work and 310 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 19 ms

    19 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 19 ms of main-thread work and 338 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 38 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 38 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 22 KiB

    22 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 122 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    43 KiB

    14 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (43 KiB).

  • 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    4 KiB

    1 image could be 4 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Minify JavaScript

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 808 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 20.5 s

    20.5 s

    Your largest element takes 20.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Get updates, promos and pizza party invites straight to you…”.

  • Speed Index: 16.1 s

    16.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 16.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 20.5 s

    20.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 20.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.101

    0.101

    The layout shifts by 0.101 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

7 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: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 87 ms

    87 ms

    Real visitors wait 87 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.05

    0.05

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.05 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 427 ms

    427 ms

    Real visitors wait 427 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 103 ms

    103 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 103 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 3.9 MB in 185 requests

    3.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.9 MB in 185 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (82), images 1.0 MB (13) and other files 646 KiB (73). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.11 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.11 g of CO₂e: 132.9 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

4 to fixGoogle 9494
  • ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (1 element)

    ARIA attributes must conform to valid values: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (1 element)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (8 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Heading levels should only increase by one (1 element)

    Heading levels should only increase by one: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 45 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 4 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

Google 100100
  • 49 internal links, 25 external

    The homepage links to 49 pages on snowdays.com and 25 external pages.

8 checks passed
  • Meta description: 160 characters

    Your meta description is 160 characters: “We took all the unnatural things out of Pizza Bites and replaced them with organic, super-clean ingredients so you can …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “.cls-1{fill:#0043c9;}.cls-2{fill:#ed562f;}”.

  • Title: 43 characters

    Your title is a healthy 43 characters: “Snow Days | Organic, Grain-Free Pizza Bites”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://snowdays.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://snowdays.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    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.

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://snowdays.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix64
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to https://snowdays.com/[[%20url%20]], which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 5 pages without a meta description

    https://snowdays.com/pages/find-us-in-store, https://snowdays.com/pages/whats-inside, https://snowdays.com/pages/about, https://snowdays.com/policies/refund-policy and https://snowdays.com/pages/contact have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 5 pages share a meta description

    https://snowdays.com/pages/shop-all-products, https://snowdays.com/pages/faq, https://snowdays.com/pages/terms-and-conditions, https://snowdays.com/pages/privacy-policy and https://snowdays.com/pages/accessibility use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 3 pages without an H1

    https://snowdays.com/products/pizza-bite, https://snowdays.com/pages/whats-inside and https://snowdays.com/pages/about have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 12 internal pages checked

    We fetched 12 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • 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 11 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    16 of 17 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix64
  • 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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 46 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 54 words

    The homepage has only about 54 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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
  • 10 calls to action

    The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Shop Bites”, “Shop All” and “Where to buy”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and TikTok Pixel.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

  • 16 cookies set on arrival

    16

    Opening the homepage sets 16 cookies, 6 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.

  • 24 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 24 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 snowdays.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 5 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

klaviyo.com · cloudfront.net · blackcrow.ai · amazonaws.com · retention.com

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
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
Austin

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

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