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sunbum.ca website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202628 issues · 76 checks
This review found 28 issues worth fixing on sunbum.ca, 6 of them high impact, across 76 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 13.6 MB in 193 requests. 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
80B- #37,103 of 94,096 reviewed websitesbeats 55%
- #23,437 of 50,428 online storesbeats 47%
- #22,457 of 45,564 Shopify storesbeats 44%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 951 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 926 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 925 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 926 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 950 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 966 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 989 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 973 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 982 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 990 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.2 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 73 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 79 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 77 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 76 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 74 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 75 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 76 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 74 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 90 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
Speed
Improve image delivery
500 ms · 859 KiB15 images could be 859 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 76
76/100Your mobile performance score is 76. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
450 ms3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
448 KiB7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (448 KiB).
roseperl.com adds 271 ms
271 msroseperl.com costs a phone 271 ms of main-thread work and 860 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.
5 long tasks on the main thread
5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 321 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
1,744 HTML elements
The page has 1,744 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
6 third-party services on the page
6 third-party services load with your homepage (roseperl.com, 9gtb.com and Shopify and others), adding 1,012 KiB and 332 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
34 KiBAbout 34 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
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.
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Main-thread work: 2.0 s
A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 625 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 8 ms
8 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 13.4 s
13.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 13.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 4.8 s
4.8 sYour largest element takes 4.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Largest content (LCP) got 23% slower for real visitors
+23%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.0 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Total Blocking Time: 291 ms
291 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 291 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 73 ms to 90 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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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: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors wait 1.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
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: 0.9 s
0.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 0.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 2.7 s
2.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.7 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s
1.1 sThe first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.005
0.005The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.005, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 13.6 MB in 193 requests
13.6 MBYour homepage downloads 13.6 MB in 193 requests on a phone: media 8.8 MB (2), images 2.8 MB (33) and scripts 1.1 MB (66). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image in older formats
1 image (84 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 3.8 g of CO₂ per visit
3.85 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.85 g of CO₂e: 461.7 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 load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
4 text elements with low contrast
4 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
3 images without alt text
3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
8 links without text
8 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).
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45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (14 characters)
Your title is only 14 characters: “Sun Bum Canada”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
66 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 66 pages on sunbum.ca and 7 external pages.
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One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Trust The Bum®.”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.sunbum.ca/.
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.sunbum.ca/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.
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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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (318 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.sunbum.ca/llms.txt (5 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 36 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
8 small tap targets
8 of 23 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
Deprecated browser APIs
The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“`<source src>` with a `<picture>` parent is invalid and therefore ignored. Please use `<source srcs…”).
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
20 distorted images
20 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.
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Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 407 words of copy
The homepage carries about 407 words of visible text.
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Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop Now”.
7 calls to action
The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Shop All Sun Care” and “Shop All”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
8 cookies set on arrival
8Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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.
9 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 9 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 sunbum.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 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
gorgias.chat · roseperl.com · 9gtb.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
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 28 issues on sunbum.ca, including 11 speed issues, 5 SEO issues and 3 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
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- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
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- Earned media and PR openings
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