somavedic.ca website review

A phone's processor spends 4.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (posthog.com, Shopify and Klaviyo and others), adding 1.6 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 63. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 640 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

3 images could be 95 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

posthog.com costs a phone 635 ms of main-thread work and 272 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.

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 375 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

The page has 2,362 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Shopify costs a phone 131 ms of main-thread work and 535 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.

Klaviyo costs a phone 115 ms of main-thread work and 324 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.

About 60 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 280 ms faster on a phone.

16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (237 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 39 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

19 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The page becomes fully interactive after 17.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 5.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 520 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

9 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 3.7 MB in 272 requests on a phone: scripts 1.7 MB (106), other files 966 KiB (126) and images 731 KiB (23). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example somavedic-elaura-silver-slider-optimised_x900.jpg at 1,350 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 39 KiB.

1 image (60 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.06 g of CO₂e: 127.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.

Images must have alternative text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

15 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

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

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

<dt> and <dd> elements must be contained by a <dl>: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 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.

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

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

8 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 173 pages on somavedic.ca and 0 external pages.

https://somavedic.ca/pages/benefits-better-sleep, https://somavedic.ca/pages/benefits-more-energy, https://somavedic.ca/pages/customer-stories and https://somavedic.ca/pages/how-it-works are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 46 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=26331371&Ver=2&mid=4c7825aa-5fb0-44b1-8f1a-b47f88006c22&bo=1&sid=16d822b0df2e11f1977481d4a4c921ab&vid=16d83fe0df2e11f1ae2b3d4f8b3fa561&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg.

6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “[Modash] Failed to load consent-tracking API: [array Array]”.

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

The homepage carries about 1,446 words of visible text.

The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 4 mores (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.

Opening the homepage sets 30 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 48 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.