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thelynzco.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202628 issues · 66 checks
This review found 28 issues worth fixing on thelynzco.com, 8 of them high impact, across 66 checks. The most urgent: 2 linked pages are broken. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Improve image delivery
800 ms · 768 KiB14 images could be 768 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 800 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 68
68/100Your mobile performance score is 68. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Shopify adds 34 ms
34 msShopify costs a phone 34 ms of main-thread work and 326 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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 6 KiB4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6 KiB).
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, jQuery CDN and Cloudflare CDN and others), adding 375 KiB and 55 ms of main-thread time.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.8 s
A phone's processor spends 0.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 241 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 8.7 s
8.7 sYour largest element takes 8.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 8.9 s
8.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 8.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.1 s
6.1 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 1.9 s
1.9 sThe first text or image appears after 1.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 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.
2 checks passed
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.4 MB in 186 requests
2.4 MBYour homepage downloads 2.4 MB in 186 requests on a phone: images 1.1 MB (15), other files 679 KiB (75) and fonts 290 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
4 images below the first screen load straight away
4 images further down the page (185 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.68 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.68 g of CO₂e: 81.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
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
11 text elements with low contrast
11 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
5 links without text
5 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 15 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
49 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Meta description is long (167 characters)
Your meta description is 167 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
Structured data has 4 problems
Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 4 problems, for example “Organization: sameAs is not an absolute URL ("#")”.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
One H1 headline
Your <h1> is empty.
90 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 90 pages on thelynzco.com and 4 external pages.
5 checks passed
Title: 39 characters
Your title is a healthy 39 characters: “Wild Stitch & Chapters - Handmade in TX”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://wildstitchandchapters.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://wildstitchandchapters.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 checks passed
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.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (481 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://wildstitchandchapters.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 linked pages are broken
Your homepage links to https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/mto-listings-wsc and https://wildstitchandchapters.com/products/rts-7y-set, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.
1 page without a title
https://wildstitchandchapters.com/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 linked page hidden from search
https://wildstitchandchapters.com/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.
6 pages share 3 titles
https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/ready-to-ship-handmade-with-wild-stitch-and-chapters/Clothing and https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/ready-to-ship-handmade-with-wild-stitch-and-chapters all use the title “Ready to Ship Clothing – Kids & Adult RTS Styles | Wild Stitch & Chap…”, and 2 other titles repeat too. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
3 pages without a meta description
https://wildstitchandchapters.com/pages/about-our-brand, https://wildstitchandchapters.com/pages/contact-us and https://wildstitchandchapters.com/customer_authentication/redirect have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
6 pages share a meta description
https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/ready-to-ship-handmade-with-wild-stitch-and-chapters/Clothing and https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/ready-to-ship-handmade-with-wild-stitch-and-chapters use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
3 links to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 3 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/ready-to-ship-handmade-with-wild-stitch-and-chapters/Clothing, whose canonical is https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/ready-to-ship-handmade-with-wild-stitch-and-chapters. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
2 pages without an H1
https://wildstitchandchapters.com/pages/about-our-brand and https://wildstitchandchapters.com/customer_authentication/redirect have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page slow to respond
https://wildstitchandchapters.com/collections/all-things-bookish-with-wsc/Books+magnetic-bookmakers+kindle+stickers took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
Best practices
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 ()”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
21 of 22 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
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.
Only about 246 words
The homepage has only about 246 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
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.
3 checks passed
9 calls to action
The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Style Guide & Pricing” and “Contact Us”.
6 short forms
6 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 5 testimonial or review blocks and 1 trust badge.
Privacy and tracking
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening 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.
6 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
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 thelynzco.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Apps on your store
No apps were seen in the code your storefront loads.
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
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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