thegutstuff.com website review

23 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.

About 521 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 670 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 58. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 83 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

16 images could be 436 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 193 ms of main-thread work and 431 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.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google/Doubleclick Ads and Google Maps and others), adding 880 KiB and 365 ms of main-thread time.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (115 KiB).

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 68 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

15 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

13 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Polyfills for old browsers add 8 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.

The first text or image appears after 6.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 6.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “good health starts in the gut”.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 3.1 MB in 111 requests on a phone: images 1.2 MB (42), scripts 1.1 MB (35) and fonts 612 KiB (7). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

7 images further down the page (258 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

1 image (37 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.88 g of CO₂e: 105.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Form elements should have a visible label: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

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

Elements with role="dialog" or role="alertdialog" do not have accessible names. (1 element).

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

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

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

The homepage links to 76 pages on thegutstuff.com and 46 external pages.

There is no https://thegutstuff.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 56 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://thegutstuff.com/.

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 ()”.

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.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

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

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

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 447 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Hotjar (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 6 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 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.