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thefloatlife.ca website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202625 issues · 66 checks

This review found 25 issues worth fixing on thefloatlife.ca, 5 of them high impact, across 66 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 6.6 MB in 244 requests. 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 thefloatlife.ca (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. thefloatlife.ca at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. thefloatlife.ca at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. thefloatlife.ca at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. thefloatlife.ca at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. thefloatlife.ca at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. thefloatlife.ca at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. thefloatlife.ca at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. thefloatlife.ca at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

5 to fix76
  • Mobile performance score: 76

    76/100

    Your mobile performance score is 76. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    800 ms

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 800 ms.

  • Improve image delivery

    350 ms · 332 KiB

    10 images could be 332 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 64 KiB

    About 64 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 3.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 774 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Klaviyo and sezzle.com and others), adding 240 KiB and 220 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 81 KiB

    About 81 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 25 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 25 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    74 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (74 KiB).

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 70 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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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  • Server response: 7 ms

    7 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

3 to fix69
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.1 s

    6.1 s

    Your largest element takes 6.1 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: 6.2 s

    6.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 6.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 3.5 s

    3.5 s

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

  • 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: 0.078

    0.078

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.078, good is under 0.1).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.1 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 24 ms

    24 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 24 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix64
  • Page weight: 6.6 MB in 244 requests

    6.6 MB

    Your homepage downloads 6.6 MB in 244 requests on a phone: media 4.2 MB (1), other files 1.0 MB (161) and images 772 KiB (21). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    XR_Collection_Onewheel.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).

  • About 1.9 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.86 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.86 g of CO₂e: 222.9 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.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

2 to fixGoogle 9897
  • 1 image without alt text

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

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

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  • 47 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: 47 passed and 2 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 9274
  • No meta description

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

  • Title is short (21 characters)

    Your title is only 21 characters: “The Float Life Canada”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

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

  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“The Float Life | Onewheel Parts, Accessories, & U…” and “The Float Life | Onewheel Parts, Accessories, & U…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • 125 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 125 pages on thefloatlife.ca and 0 external pages.

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  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://thefloatlife.ca/.

  • 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://thefloatlife.ca/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 (416 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://thefloatlife.ca/llms.txt (5 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

3 to fix85
  • 3 pages without a meta description

    https://thefloatlife.ca/collections/onewheel%E2%84%A2-parts-accessories, https://thefloatlife.ca/pages/contact and https://thefloatlife.ca/collections/onewheel%E2%84%A2-tires have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 9 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 9 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://thefloatlife.ca/collections/onewheel%E2%84%A2-parts-accessories, whose canonical is https://thefloatlife.ca/collections/onewheel%e2%84%a2-parts-accessories. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://thefloatlife.ca/pages/contact has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    https://thefloatlife.ca/collections/onewheel%E2%84%A2-parts-accessories took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 36 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.

  • 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    37 of 45 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix67
  • No social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

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

  • No direct contact details

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

  • 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 264 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 264 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: “/collections/shop-for-gt-gt-s” and “SHOP GTS | GT”.

  • 52 calls to action

    The homepage has 52 calls to action, for example “Shop for GT/GT-S”, “Shop for XR Classic” and “Shop for +XR”.

  • 7 short forms

    7 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Klaviyo (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.

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 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.

  • 10 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 10 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 thefloatlife.ca, 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 1 app. It is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms

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

E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

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

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