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sterntaler.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202642 issues · 78 checks
This review found 42 issues worth fixing on sterntaler.com, 16 of them high impact, across 78 checks. The most urgent: avoid multiple page redirects. 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
71C- #81,676 of 100,741 reviewed websitesbeats 16%
- #48,721 of 55,522 online storesbeats 10%
- #45,161 of 50,436 Shopify storesbeats 9%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 149 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 154 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 173 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 209 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 212 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 210 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 211 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 208 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 204 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 203 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 200 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 201 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 202 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
3.8 s
7.7 s
11.5 s
15.4 s
19.2 s
23.1 s
26.9 s
30.8 s
Speed
Avoid multiple page redirects
8.9 sThe page goes through 2 redirects before it starts loading, costing about 8.9 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.9 s · 784 KiBAbout 784 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.
Main-thread work: 12.5 s
A phone's processor spends 12.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Mobile performance score: 40
40/100Your mobile performance score is 40. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
5,016 HTML elements
The page has 5,016 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Shopify and Facebook and others), adding 2.4 MB and 1.7 s of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
900 ms · 664 KiB46 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (664 KiB).
Google Tag Manager adds 956 ms
956 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 956 ms of main-thread work and 1.2 MB 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.
Render-blocking requests
600 ms7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.
Duplicated JavaScript
450 ms · 86 KiB86 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Shopify adds 233 ms
233 msShopify costs a phone 233 ms of main-thread work and 375 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.
PayPal adds 148 ms
148 msPayPal costs a phone 148 ms of main-thread work and 319 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.
Document request latency
250 msThe HTML itself could arrive about 250 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 210 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Improve image delivery
102 KiB10 images could be 102 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Legacy JavaScript
42 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 42 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Reduce unused CSS
16 KiBAbout 16 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Minify JavaScript
11 KiB11 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 12 ms
12 msYour server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Largest Contentful Paint: 15.9 s
15.9 sYour largest element takes 15.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Speed Index: 21.2 s
21.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 21.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Time to Interactive: 29.0 s
29.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 29.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 802 ms
802 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 802 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user INP: 202 ms
202 msReal visitors wait 202 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 33% slower for real visitors
+33%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 149 ms to 202 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s
2.3 sThe first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.116
0.116The layout shifts by 0.116 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
2 images without width and height
2 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, 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).
4 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors wait 1.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.03
0.03For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 434 ms
434 msReal visitors wait 434 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 9.8 MB in 623 requests
9.8 MBYour homepage downloads 9.8 MB in 623 requests on a phone: media 3.7 MB (15), scripts 2.7 MB (196) and other files 1.5 MB (249). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 2.8 g of CO₂ per visit
2.79 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.79 g of CO₂e: 334.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used (1 element)
Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.
2 images without alt text
2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
3 text elements with low contrast
3 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
20 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 23 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 20 passed and 3 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is long (70 characters)
Your title is 70 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Sterntaler Onlineshop - alles für Baby & Kleinkind ⭐️ | sterntaler.com”.
Meta description is long (276 characters)
Your meta description is 276 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “ld+json block 1 is not valid JSON (Expected ',' or ']' after array element in JSON at position )”.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
479 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 479 pages on sterntaler.com and 5 external pages.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.sterntaler.com/.
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.sterntaler.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.sterntaler.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.
1 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.
Other pages
1 page without a title
https://www.sterntaler.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
https://www.sterntaler.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
4 pages without a meta description
https://www.sterntaler.com/customer_authentication/redirect, https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/schlafsaecke-mit-3-5-tog, https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/schlafsaecke-mit-3-0tog and https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/schlafsaecke-mit-2-5-tog have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
6 pages without an H1
https://www.sterntaler.com/customer_authentication/redirect, https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/black-week, https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/warme-schlafsaecke, https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/schlafsaecke-mit-3-5-tog, https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/schlafsaecke-mit-3-0tog and https://www.sterntaler.com/collections/schlafsaecke-mit-2-5-tog have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 198 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
3 checks passed
Linked pages load
6 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.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Best practices
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 ()”.
1 checks passed
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.
No calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
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.
Only about 10 words
The homepage has only about 10 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
3 checks passed
8 short forms
8 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block, a star rating and 3 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Hotjar.
Privacy and tracking
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.
2 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 sterntaler.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager | Hotjar
- Hosting
- Shopify
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