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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202623 issues · 64 checks

This review found 23 issues worth fixing on sproutboxgarden.com, 9 of them high impact, across 64 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 10.3 MB. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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

Site score

Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.6 s1.3 sMay 23Nov 71.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.4 s
May 30, 20261.4 s
Jun 6, 20261.4 s
Jun 13, 20261.4 s
Jun 20, 20261.4 s
Jun 27, 20261.4 s
Jul 4, 20261.5 s
Jul 11, 20261.4 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.4 s
Aug 1, 20261.3 s
Aug 8, 20261.3 s
Aug 15, 20261.3 s
Aug 22, 20261.3 s
Aug 29, 20261.3 s
Sep 5, 20261.3 s
Sep 12, 20261.3 s
Sep 19, 20261.4 s
Sep 26, 20261.4 s
Oct 3, 20261.4 s
Oct 10, 20261.5 s
Oct 17, 20261.5 s
Oct 24, 20261.5 s
Oct 31, 20261.5 s
Nov 7, 20261.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
137 ms119 msMay 23Nov 7132 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026127 ms
May 30, 2026121 ms
Jun 6, 2026124 ms
Jun 13, 2026127 ms
Jun 20, 2026128 ms
Jun 27, 2026128 ms
Jul 4, 2026127 ms
Jul 11, 2026124 ms
Jul 18, 2026126 ms
Jul 25, 2026125 ms
Aug 1, 2026127 ms
Aug 8, 2026128 ms
Aug 15, 2026127 ms
Aug 22, 2026128 ms
Aug 29, 2026126 ms
Sep 5, 2026125 ms
Sep 12, 2026127 ms
Sep 19, 2026127 ms
Sep 26, 2026130 ms
Oct 3, 2026130 ms
Oct 10, 2026129 ms
Oct 17, 2026131 ms
Oct 24, 2026130 ms
Oct 31, 2026135 ms
Nov 7, 2026132 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

www.sproutboxgarden.com (opens in a new tab)

No screenshot is available for this review.

Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

100

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +8%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 127 ms to 132 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +7%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.4 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 your site (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: 132 ms

    132 ms

    Real visitors wait 132 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.02

    0.02

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 481 ms

    481 ms

    Real visitors wait 481 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Images and page weight

6 to fix19

  • Page weight: 10.3 MB

    10.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 10.3 MB on a phone, 6.8 MB of it images (66%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 9 images far larger than shown

    3.2 MB

    9 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 250709-Sproutbox-0231.jpg at 4,501 px wide, shown at 176 px. Resized copies would save about 3.2 MB.

  • 2 images over 500 KB

    2 images weigh 2.5 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    17__Clover_Hero_Banner_Mobile_Background.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).

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (1.0 MB) 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.

  • 7 images below the first screen load straight away

    7 images further down the page (591 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 2.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.92 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.92 g of CO₂e: 350.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

6 to fix90

  • 32 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 6 tap targets too small

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

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

    Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • 1 form field without a label

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

1 checks passed

  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fix95

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 73 internal links, 9 external

    The homepage links to 73 pages on sproutboxgarden.com and 9 external pages.

7 checks passed

  • Meta description: 137 characters

    Your meta description is 137 characters: “Discover premium raised garden beds from Sproutbox Garden. Perfect for Canadian gardeners looking to elevate their gree…”.

  • Title: 65 characters

    Your title is a healthy 65 characters: “Raised Garden Beds Canada | Metal Garden Boxes | Sproutbox Garden”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.sproutboxgarden.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://www.sproutboxgarden.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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.

  • 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 (1,134 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/llms.txt (48 KiB, 133 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix78

  • 2 pages share a title

    https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/mission and https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/mission-1 all use the title “Mission – Sproutbox Garden”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 10 pages without a meta description

    https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/sproutbox-difference, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/sproutbox-garden, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/ambassador-program-1, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/mission, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/contact and https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/faqs and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 5 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 5 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/collections/all, whose canonical is https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/a/shop/collections/all. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 13 pages without an H1

    https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/collections/all, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/sproutbox-difference, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/sproutbox-garden, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/ambassador-program-1, https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/mission and https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/contact and 7 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages slow to respond

    https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/ambassador-program and https://www.sproutboxgarden.com/pages/mission-1 took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 checks passed

  • Linked pages load

    14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fix71

  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=97232453&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=63fcb4d0-faee-4d8a-91ea-c8ca3b8ae5c5&bo=1&sid=6ebc9580dc3411f190b8115fa46ddbf0&vid=6ebcbb90dc3411f1861a5dc9b7cc0a7a&vids=1&msclkid=N&gtm_t.

  • 4 small tap targets

    4 of 20 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 5 JavaScript errors while loading

    5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'addEventListener')”.

1 checks passed

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix89

  • 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 analytics detected

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

  • No opening hours

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

  • No map or directions link

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

  • About 841 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 841 words of visible text.

7 checks passed

  • Clear next step on the first screen

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

  • 14 calls to action

    The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Shop” and “Shop All”.

  • 4 short forms

    4 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 49 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix

  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amplitude, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo and 2 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.

  • 28 cookies set on arrival

    28

    Opening the homepage sets 28 cookies (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.

  • 41 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 41 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 sproutboxgarden.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 12 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Consentmo Gdpr · Triplewhale · Powerful Form Builder · Fbp Fast Bundle · Elevar Conversion Tracking · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Pagefly Ai Page Builder · Gdpr Backpack · jsdelivr.net · loox.io · wishpond.net · route.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

Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

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

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