thecontortionist-store.com website review

About 536 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.0 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 65. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (155 KiB).

7 third-party services load with your homepage (spotifycdn.com, Bold Commerce and shopapps.site and others), adding 1.2 MB and 619 ms of main-thread time.

8 images could be 451 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

About 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.

spotifycdn.com costs a phone 406 ms of main-thread work and 679 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.

9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 400 ms.

The page has 2,405 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 123 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 15 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.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Your largest element takes 12.9 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 13.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 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 3.0 MB in 195 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (59), images 794 KiB (17) and other files 724 KiB (82). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

header-test-7.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).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.84 g of CO₂e: 100.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Your meta description is only 39 characters: “The Contortionist Official Online Store”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 49 pages on thecontortionist-store.com and 1 external page.

Your homepage links to https://thecontortionist-store.com/collections/sheet-music, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.

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

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

https://thecontortionist-store.com/collections/new-products, https://thecontortionist-store.com/collections/tab-books, https://thecontortionist-store.com/collections/shirts, https://thecontortionist-store.com/collections/other-items, https://thecontortionist-store.com/collections/hoodies-jackets and https://thecontortionist-store.com/collections/music and 3 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://thecontortionist-store.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://thecontortionist-store.com/customer_authentication/redirect took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

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

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

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

The homepage has only about 168 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.