spyderco.com website review

About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.0 s faster on a phone.

19 images could be 1.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.

Mapbox costs a phone 2.0 s of main-thread work and 925 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.

25 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (249 KiB).

A phone's processor spends 11.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Your mobile performance score is 21 (desktop: 35). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Mapbox, Klaviyo and Shopify and others), adding 2.5 MB and 2.7 s of main-thread time.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 2.1 s. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 95 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 53 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Klaviyo costs a phone 215 ms of main-thread work and 618 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 costs a phone 177 ms of main-thread work and 426 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.

12 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

6 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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 first text or image appears after 10.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 27.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experi…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 27.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 15.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 3.6 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The layout shifts by 0.129 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 92 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 5.4 MB in 263 requests on a phone: scripts 2.4 MB (122), images 1.7 MB (27) and other files 890 KiB (87). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

HomeSlider_Mobile_Template2_15e6cd52-4045-4a59-ac4c-fcb11492 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).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.52 g of CO₂e: 182.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

9 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (3 elements).

Your title is only 14 characters: “Spyderco, Inc.”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is 176 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to 80 pages on spyderco.com and 19 external pages.

There is no https://spyderco.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

Your homepage links to https://spyderco.com/collections/accessories, https://spyderco.com/collections/apparel and https://spyderco.com/collections/byrd-knife, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://spyderco.com/collections/new-product-reveal/New-Product-Reveal, whose canonical is https://spyderco.com/collections/new-product-reveal/new-product-reveal. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://spyderco.com/collections/all, https://spyderco.com/collections/new-product-reveal/New-Product-Reveal, https://spyderco.com/collections/automatic-knives, https://spyderco.com/collections/locking-folding, https://spyderco.com/collections/culinary and https://spyderco.com/collections/fixed-blade-knives and 6 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 58 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://jelly.mdhv.io/v1/star.gif?pid=9Y9FdyLQxMEo9PPhAUslWPgTJppK&src=mh&evt=hi.

6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED”.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

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

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

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

The homepage carries about 603 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Microsoft Clarity (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 14 cookies (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.