switchhealth.ca website review

9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.

Your mobile performance score is 69 (desktop: 89). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 68 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

11 images could be 398 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Polyfills for old browsers add 27 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

10 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (226 KiB).

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Optanon, Klaviyo and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 447 KiB and 180 ms of main-thread time.

About 30 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

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 10.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 10.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 3.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

10 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 206 requests on a phone: other files 860 KiB (106), images 724 KiB (21) and scripts 511 KiB (55). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

353453.png 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 are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example switchhealth-1732357330659.png at 1,030 px wide, shown at 145 px. Resized copies would save about 178 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.62 g of CO₂e: 74.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

5 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

19 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

4 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 85 pages on switchhealth.ca and 7 external pages.

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.

https://switchhealth.ca/products/sti-panel-collection-kit declares the homepage as its canonical URL, which tells Google it is a copy of the homepage and keeps it out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

/ and https://switchhealth.ca/products/sti-panel-collection-kit all use the title “Switch Health | Healthcare, Delivered”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://switchhealth.ca/collections/sexual-health, https://switchhealth.ca/products/sti-panel-collection-kit, https://switchhealth.ca/collections/mens-health, https://switchhealth.ca/products/men-s-health-test, https://switchhealth.ca/collections/womens-health and https://switchhealth.ca/products/female-hormone-test and 7 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://switchhealth.ca/pages/about-us has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

11 of 36 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://app.logoshowcase.co/extension/app.css' from origin 'https://switchhealth.ca' has b…”.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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 449 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.