stlhd.com website review

23 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (470 KiB).

About 282 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 4.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 3,566 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

13 images could be 679 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 69. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Attentive and Clarity and others), adding 1.5 MB and 546 ms of main-thread time.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

Shopify costs a phone 198 ms of main-thread work and 646 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.

Attentive costs a phone 110 ms of main-thread work and 512 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.

About 53 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 151 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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.

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 image “a person wearing a sweatshirt with a fish on it”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 27.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 89 ms to 113 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Visually, the page fills in at 5.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your homepage downloads 5.4 MB in 385 requests on a phone: images 2.9 MB (33), scripts 1.2 MB (174) and other files 850 KiB (147). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images (93 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.53 g of CO₂e: 183.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

Your title is only 29 characters: “STLHD Gear. Always Searching.”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“STLHD GEAR” and “JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

The homepage links to 208 pages on stlhd.com and 10 external pages.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 78 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

16 of 45 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “SecurityError: Failed to read a named property 'document' from 'Window': Blocked a frame with origin "null" from access…”.

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 phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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 769 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Clarity 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.

Opening the homepage sets 35 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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 45 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.