thebikeshed.cc website review

About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.4 s faster on a phone.

20 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.3 s.

10 images could be 671 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 29. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (FontAwesome CDN, Google CDN and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 2.0 MB and 933 ms of main-thread time.

About 100 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (380 KiB).

Google CDN costs a phone 226 ms of main-thread work and 773 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.

A phone's processor spends 2.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

goodapps.io costs a phone 33 ms of main-thread work and 330 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.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 108 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

Polyfills for old browsers add 27 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Your largest element takes 18.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “SHOP New Arrivals Clothing Accessories Gear Shipping Info R…”.

The first text or image appears after 7.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

The layout shifts by 0.933 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

The page becomes fully interactive after 19.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 12.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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 4.9 MB in 231 requests on a phone: scripts 2.1 MB (86), images 1.5 MB (16) and other files 928 KiB (102). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image further down the page (76 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.39 g of CO₂e: 167.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

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

Your canonical URL points to bikeshedmoto.co.uk, not thebikeshed.cc, so Google may credit that host instead.

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

There are 4 <h1> headlines (“”, “” and “Login”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 164 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 52 pages on thebikeshed.cc and 29 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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 26 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://thebikeshed.cc/.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'addEventListener')”.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

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 851 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo 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 19 cookies (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 41 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.