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sunsetsinc.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202644 issues · 88 checks
This review found 44 issues worth fixing on sunsetsinc.com, 16 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
77C- #52,700 of 94,094 reviewed websitesbeats 39%
- #32,429 of 50,426 online storesbeats 31%
- #30,707 of 45,562 Shopify storesbeats 28%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 103 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 104 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 106 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 116 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 119 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 126 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 137 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 136 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 141 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 147 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 152 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 150 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 131 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 137 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
1.8 s · 2.7 MB31 images could be 2.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.3 s12 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.
Mobile performance score: 44
44/100Your mobile performance score is 44. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 5.3 s
A phone's processor spends 5.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.7 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,688 HTML elements
The page has 3,688 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 rebuyengine.com and others), adding 3.1 MB and 1.4 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
300 ms · 1.1 MBAbout 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 117 KiBAbout 117 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 472 ms
472 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 472 ms of main-thread work and 836 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 adds 343 ms
343 msShopify costs a phone 343 ms of main-thread work and 845 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.
Minify JavaScript
300 ms · 41 KiB41 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
rebuyengine.com adds 174 ms
174 msrebuyengine.com costs a phone 174 ms of main-thread work and 683 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.
userway.org adds 91 ms
91 msuserway.org costs a phone 91 ms of main-thread work and 329 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.
Duplicated JavaScript
150 ms · 38 KiB38 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
177 KiB16 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (177 KiB).
14 long tasks on the main thread
14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 170 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
94 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 94 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Minify CSS
9 KiB9 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
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: 23 ms
23 msYour server sent the HTML in 23 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.
Time to Interactive: 37.8 s
37.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 37.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 8.2 s
8.2 sYour largest element takes 8.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Speed Index: 12.1 s
12.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 12.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.13
0.13For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.13 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Tap response (INP) got 29% slower for real visitors
+29%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 137 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 2.2 s
2.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 526 ms
526 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 526 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.161
0.161The layout shifts by 0.161 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
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.
3 images without width and height
3 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) got 13% slower for real visitors
+13%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.5 s
2.5 sReal visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 139 ms
139 msReal visitors wait 139 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user TTFB: 517 ms
517 msReal visitors wait 517 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 8.7 MB in 470 requests
8.7 MBYour homepage downloads 8.7 MB in 470 requests on a phone: images 3.8 MB (49), scripts 2.7 MB (178) and other files 1.3 MB (200). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image over 500 KB
MINTS_521_352B_3.jpg weighs 550 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
MINTS_521_352B_3_88e1f3ed-e805-48de-9734-6d426c9754c0.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).
2 images far larger than shown
96 KiB2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 523whili-photo02-lifestyle.jpg at 600 px wide, shown at 130 px. Resized copies would save about 96 KiB.
3 images in older formats
3 images (147 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.
About 2.5 g of CO₂ per visit
2.45 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.45 g of CO₂e: 294.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Orphan list items
Some list items are not inside a list.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
4 images without alt text
4 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
1 link without text
1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.
1 checks passed
45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 50 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 5 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
Title is long (85 characters)
Your title is 85 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Sunsets Inc: Bikinis & Women's Resort Wear | Supportive Swim Separates – Sunsets Inc.”.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
3 links crawlers can't follow
3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
329 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 329 pages on sunsetsinc.com and 4 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 147 characters
Your meta description is 147 characters: “Your perfect fit, guaranteed! Sunsets Inc, leader in supportive swimwear for 40+ years. Shop Sunsets, Pacifica, Swim Sy…”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://sunsetsinc.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization.
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://sunsetsinc.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
There is no https://sunsetsinc.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.
3 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: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; logo and description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,667 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://sunsetsinc.com/pages/pacifica-swimwear-for-women has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
4 pages without an H1
https://sunsetsinc.com/pages/sunsets-swimwear-for-women, https://sunsetsinc.com/pages/pacifica-swimwear-for-women, https://sunsetsinc.com/pages/swim-systems-swimwear-for-women and https://sunsetsinc.com/pages/sunsets-escape-swimwear-for-women 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 197 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
4 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 4 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'addEventListener')”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
71 of 87 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 29 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
About 694 words of copy
The homepage carries about 694 words of visible text.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop now”.
18 calls to action
The homepage has 18 calls to action, for example “Shop by Bra Size”, “Shop All” and “Shop By Bra Size”.
25 short forms
25 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 3 phone links and 0 email links.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 1 more (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.
25 cookies set on arrival
25Opening the homepage sets 25 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.
45 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 45 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 sunsetsinc.com, 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 18 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Ot Theme Sections · Se Wishlist Engine · Power Tools Filter Menu · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Rimix Product Badges · Wsh Wholesale Pricing · Inbox · Rebuy Personalization Engine · Hulk Form Builder · Swatch King · Ot Section Builder · Variant Image Swatch · Loop Returns · Appstle Loyalty · Essentials Estimated Delivery · verifypass.com · rebuyengine.com · Hulk Product Options
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
- Framework
- SvelteKit
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Employees
- 230
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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