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stashtea.ca website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202618 issues · 74 checks
This review found 18 issues worth fixing on stashtea.ca, 4 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: no call to action on the first screen. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
87B- #6,553 of 93,060 reviewed websitesbeats 90%
- #3,608 of 49,604 online storesbeats 89%
- #3,495 of 44,767 Shopify storesbeats 88%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 82 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 142 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 130 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
600 ms · 521 KiBAbout 521 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 72
72/100Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
900 ms9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and pearcommerce.com and others), adding 1.0 MB and 633 ms of main-thread time.
Google Tag Manager adds 285 ms
285 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 285 ms of main-thread work and 306 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.
Improve image delivery
200 ms · 243 KiB12 images could be 243 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
240 KiB4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (240 KiB).
4 long tasks on the main thread
4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 209 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
Minify JavaScript
73 KiB73 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Legacy JavaScript
13 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 13 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
Minify CSS
2 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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Main-thread work: 1.8 s
A phone's processor spends 1.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 792 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 10 ms
10 msYour server sent the HTML in 10 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 7.7 s
7.7 sYour largest element takes 7.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 11.7 s
11.7 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 11.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Tap response (INP) got 56% slower for real visitors
+56%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 82 ms to 130 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Speed Index: 4.0 s
4.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 4.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
9 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors wait 1.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 131 ms
131 msReal visitors wait 131 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 0.8 s
0.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 416 ms
416 msReal visitors wait 416 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 165 ms
165 msScripts block the page for only 165 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001
0.001The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.9 MB in 202 requests
2.9 MBYour homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 202 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (63), images 915 KiB (25) and other files 690 KiB (90). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
Organic_CAN_Rebrand_Wide_Orange.jpg 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 in older formats
1 image (54 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.
About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.81 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.81 g of CO₂e: 97.6 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 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
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.
1 checks passed
45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: url points at a different host (https://www.stashtea.com/)”.
77 internal links, 30 external
The homepage links to 77 pages on stashtea.ca and 30 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 127 characters
Your meta description is 127 characters: “Looking to buy tea? Explore our selection of black tea, green tea, and herbal tea for a variety of flavors and health b…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Find your Stash”.
Title: 30 characters
Your title is a healthy 30 characters: “Stash Tea Canada | Get Steeped”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.stashtea.ca/.
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.stashtea.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (590 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.stashtea.ca/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 37 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 14 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
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
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
25 of 26 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 11 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No direct contact details
No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.
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 392 words of copy
The homepage carries about 392 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
21 calls to action
The homepage has 21 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Shop all” and “SHOP BEST SELLERS”.
10 short forms
10 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Privacy and tracking
4 trackers load before any consent
4Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (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
11Opening the homepage sets 11 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.
16 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 16 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 stashtea.ca, 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 2 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Seowill Ai Seo · Judge Me Reviews
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 Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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