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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202629 issues · 71 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on thebbly.com, 9 of them high impact, across 71 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of thebbly.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. thebbly.com at 0.6 s0.6 s
  2. thebbly.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  3. thebbly.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  4. thebbly.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  5. thebbly.com at 3.1 s3.1 s
  6. thebbly.com at 3.7 s3.7 s
  7. thebbly.com at 4.3 s4.3 s
  8. thebbly.com at 4.9 s4.9 s

Speed

5 to fix62
  • Improve image delivery

    4.2 s · 603 KiB

    16 images could be 603 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.6 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 62

    62/100

    Your mobile performance score is 62. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    750 ms · 193 KiB

    About 193 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 94 KiB

    About 94 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.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, recapture.io and shop.app and others), adding 218 KiB and 88 ms of main-thread time.

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 77 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    13 KiB

    5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (13 KiB).

  • 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, 850 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 6 ms

    6 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 15.3 s

    15.3 s

    Your largest element takes 15.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 15.4 s

    15.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 15.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 7.5 s

    7.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.1 s

    3.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 7 images without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.031

    0.031

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.031, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 57 ms

    57 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 57 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

3 to fix68
  • Page weight: 2.9 MB in 161 requests

    2.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 161 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (27), other files 647 KiB (65) and scripts 580 KiB (59). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 13 images below the first screen load straight away

    13 images further down the page (665 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 8 images far larger than shown

    150 KiB

    8 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example TapiocaPearl_grande.jpg at 600 px wide, shown at 165 px. Resized copies would save about 150 KiB.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.81 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.81 g of CO₂e: 97.1 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 use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 9393
  • 2 tap targets too small

    2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 12 links without text

    12 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • 3 form fields without a label

    3 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5 and h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

2 to fixGoogle 9294
  • No structured data

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

  • 12 links crawlers can't follow

    12 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 80 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 80 pages on thebbly.com and 2 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 152 characters

    Your meta description is 152 characters: “Shop wholesale boba supplies and bubble tea ingredients at BBLY. Browse tapioca pearls, popping boba, teas, powders, sy…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “FROM_JS”.

  • Title: 55 characters

    Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “Wholesale Boba Supplies & Bubble Tea Ingredients | BBLY”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://thebbly.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://thebbly.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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 (533 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://thebbly.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix68
  • 1 page without a title

    https://thebbly.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    https://thebbly.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 7 pages without a meta description

    https://thebbly.com/pages/contact, https://thebbly.com/customer_authentication/redirect, https://thebbly.com/collections/all, https://thebbly.com/pages/coupons, https://thebbly.com/blogs/news and https://thebbly.com/blogs/recipes and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://thebbly.com/customer_authentication/redirect has 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 27 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.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    26 of 29 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix80
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 31 testimonial or review blocks. 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.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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 608 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 608 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”.

  • 15 calls to action

    The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Subscribe”, “Contact Us” and “Contact”.

  • 4 short forms

    4 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

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

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 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 thebbly.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 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Sami Wholesale · Hulk Form Builder · recapture.io

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

  • The footer still says © 2022.

Stack

Framework
Bootstrap
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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