sodasense.com website review

About 546 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

21 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (386 KiB).

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Shopify and Facebook and others), adding 1.4 MB and 962 ms of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 52. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 300 ms of main-thread work and 520 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.

4 images could be 323 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

A phone's processor spends 2.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 168 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 72 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

6 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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

Your largest element takes 21.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 21.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 407 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 106 ms to 104 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 229 requests on a phone: scripts 1.7 MB (70), images 1,012 KiB (31) and other files 714 KiB (117). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

Mobile_Header_Sans.png 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 further down the page (64 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.00 g of CO₂e: 119.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

There are 4 <h1> headlines (“Refresh the way you soda.”, “Need fresh CO2?” and “Our Refill Club saves you time and money.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 308 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 60 pages on sodasense.com and 14 external pages.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

https://sodasense.com/pages/senseation-sparkling-water-maker and https://sodasense.com/pages/sparkling-water-maker are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://sodasense.com/pages/senseation-sparkling-water-maker and https://sodasense.com/pages/sparkling-water-maker all use the title “The Best Sparkling Water Maker - Soda Sense”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://sodasense.com/blogs/bubbly-blog has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://sodasense.com/pages/shop-co2 and https://sodasense.com/pages/co2-refill-box use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://sodasense.com/pages/spare-water-bottles, whose canonical is https://sodasense.com/pages/senseation-spare-water-bottles. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://sodasense.com/pages/shop-co2 has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 16 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=136017442&Ver=2&mid=c8f3f269-7d77-49f5-85c0-594d9d919eb0&bo=3&sid=90b62790ded111f1a2ea21aacbb37025&vid=90b64df0ded111f19a02ab291ccb333b&vids=0&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&l.

2 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED”.

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

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 171 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel and 3 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 30 cookies, 8 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 46 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.