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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202619 issues · 68 checks

This review found 19 issues worth fixing on sophiescosmetics.com, 6 of them high impact, across 68 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.6 s918 msMay 23Nov 71.2 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.1 s
May 30, 20261.1 s
Jun 6, 20261.1 s
Jun 13, 2026992 ms
Jun 20, 20261.1 s
Jun 27, 20261.2 s
Jul 4, 20261.3 s
Jul 11, 20261.4 s
Jul 18, 20261.5 s
Jul 25, 20261.2 s
Aug 1, 20261.2 s
Aug 8, 20261.1 s
Aug 15, 20261.1 s
Aug 22, 20261.3 s
Aug 29, 20261.3 s
Sep 5, 20261.2 s
Sep 12, 20261.3 s
Sep 19, 20261.2 s
Nov 7, 20261.2 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
124 ms98 msMay 23Jul 18113 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026101 ms
May 30, 2026121 ms
Jun 6, 2026104 ms
Jun 20, 2026104 ms
Jun 27, 2026104 ms
Jul 4, 2026102 ms
Jul 18, 2026113 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. sophiescosmetics.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. sophiescosmetics.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. sophiescosmetics.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. sophiescosmetics.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. sophiescosmetics.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. sophiescosmetics.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. sophiescosmetics.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. sophiescosmetics.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

4 to fix70
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.8 s · 231 KiB

    About 231 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 70

    70/100

    Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    600 ms · 115 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (115 KiB).

  • Google Tag Manager adds 153 ms

    153 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 153 ms of main-thread work and 322 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.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, omnisnippet1.com and smile.io and others), adding 713 KiB and 265 ms of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 21 KiB

    3 images could be 21 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 99 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 510 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix63
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    Your largest element takes 10.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.7 s

    10.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 3.6 s

    3.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 101 ms to 113 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 13% slower for real visitors

    +13%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.095

    0.095

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.095, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 79 ms

    79 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 79 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix81
  • Page weight: 2.5 MB in 264 requests

    2.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.5 MB in 264 requests on a phone: other files 1,016 KiB (137), scripts 799 KiB (67) and images 574 KiB (29). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    AdobeStock_Fall_autumn_Sophies_Cosmetics_banner_2026_750x.jp 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).

  • 2 images in older formats

    2 images (94 KiB) 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.

  • About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.70 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.70 g of CO₂e: 83.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

1 to fixGoogle 10099
  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (6 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 36 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 50 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 51 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10095
  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 193 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 193 pages on sophiescosmetics.com and 6 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 137 characters

    Your meta description is 137 characters: “Online shopping for professional skin care products like Circadia, Rhonda Allison, Face Reality, Skin Script, Glymed Pl…”.

  • Title: 49 characters

    Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “Free Shipping on Orders $75+ | Sophie's Cosmetics”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

AI search readiness

100
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  • 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.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (964 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

3 to fix58
  • 1 linked page is broken

    Your homepage links to https://sophiescosmetics.com/collections/hale-hush, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

  • 1 page points its canonical at the homepage

    https://sophiescosmetics.com/collections/lira-clinical declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

  • 2 pages share a title

    / and https://sophiescosmetics.com/collections/lira-clinical all use the title “Free Shipping on Orders $75+ | Sophie's Cosmetics”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 81 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Every page has a meta description

    All 14 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9293
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

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

  • Requests the notification permission on page load

    Requests the notification permission on page load.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    14 of 14 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix79
  • 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 opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 490 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 490 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP OUR NEWEST ARRIVALS”.

  • 6 calls to action

    The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Shop all BiON”, “SHOP OUR NEWEST ARRIVALS” and “Shop Pumpkin-infused Skincare”.

  • 3 short forms

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

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

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 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.

  • 18 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 18 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 sophiescosmetics.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

Judge Me Reviews · Omnisend · smile.io · kxcdn.com · fpcdn.me

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 Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

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

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