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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202632 issues · 77 checks

This review found 32 issues worth fixing on thespeedhound.com, 10 of them high impact, across 77 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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 thespeedhound.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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

Speed

12 to fix40
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.5 s · 1.2 MB

    About 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 40

    40/100

    Your mobile performance score is 40. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, zotabox.com and amaicdn.com and others), adding 2.7 MB and 1.1 s of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    550 ms · 685 KiB

    29 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (685 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 157 KiB

    About 157 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    600 ms

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 375 ms

    375 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 375 ms of main-thread work and 526 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.

  • Main-thread work: 3.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 279 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • zotabox.com adds 168 ms

    168 ms

    zotabox.com costs a phone 168 ms of main-thread work and 548 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.

  • amaicdn.com adds 166 ms

    166 ms

    amaicdn.com costs a phone 166 ms of main-thread work and 404 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.

  • tidio.co adds 75 ms

    75 ms

    tidio.co costs a phone 75 ms of main-thread work and 515 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    91 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 91 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • Improve image delivery

    26 KiB

    1 image could be 26 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Minify JavaScript

    18 KiB

    18 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Minify CSS

    8 KiB

    8 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 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.

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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

6 to fix31
  • Time to Interactive: 27.1 s

    27.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 27.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.3 s

    9.3 s

    Your largest element takes 9.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Got Sore Muscles and heavy legs?”.

  • Total Blocking Time: 811 ms

    811 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 811 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.228

    0.228

    The layout shifts by 0.228 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • Speed Index: 5.4 s

    5.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 3 images without width and height

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

  • 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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  • 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.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 4.5 MB in 262 requests

    4.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.5 MB in 262 requests on a phone: scripts 3.0 MB (104), other files 914 KiB (135) and fonts 318 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.26 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.26 g of CO₂e: 151.7 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 load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 8893
  • 6 buttons without a name

    6 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • 5 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (3 elements)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 3 form fields without a label

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

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 22 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 48 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: 48 passed and 4 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9289
  • No structured data

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

  • Meta description is long (187 characters)

    Your meta description is 187 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 2 links with vague text

    2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 61 internal links, 10 external

    The homepage links to 61 pages on thespeedhound.com and 10 external pages.

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  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “<img src="//thespeedhound.com/cdn/shop/files/2_logo_180x28.png?v=1634265759" alt="sh logo" data-rimg="noscript" srcset=…”.

  • Title: 47 characters

    Your title is a healthy 47 characters: “Best recovery products for the Everyday athlete”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://thespeedhound.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://thespeedhound.com/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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://thespeedhound.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.

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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 (1,352 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://thespeedhound.com/collections/recovery-system-accessories has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 28 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    5 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 5 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9693
  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'defaultSetting')”.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    6 of 7 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix80
  • 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.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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 1,124 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,124 words of visible text.

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  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “LEARN MORE” and “SHOP NOW”.

  • 5 short forms

    5 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 79 testimonial or review blocks and “100k+ happy customers”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo 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.

  • 20 cookies set on arrival

    20

    Opening the homepage sets 20 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.

  • 43 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 43 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 thespeedhound.com, 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 7 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Yotpo Product Reviews · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · zotabox.com · privy.com · tidio.co · printful.com · shareasale.com

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
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
Menlo Park

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

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