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thevapestore.ca website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202631 issues · 84 checks

This review found 31 issues worth fixing on thevapestore.ca, 6 of them high impact, across 84 checks. The most urgent: 7,308 HTML elements. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.1 s718 msMay 23Nov 7899 ms
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 2026789 ms
May 30, 2026763 ms
Jun 6, 2026759 ms
Jun 13, 2026765 ms
Jun 20, 2026766 ms
Jun 27, 2026784 ms
Jul 4, 2026840 ms
Jul 11, 2026820 ms
Jul 18, 2026850 ms
Jul 25, 2026880 ms
Aug 1, 2026905 ms
Aug 8, 2026949 ms
Aug 15, 2026984 ms
Aug 22, 20261.0 s
Aug 29, 20261.0 s
Sep 5, 20261.0 s
Sep 12, 20261.0 s
Sep 19, 20261.0 s
Sep 26, 2026995 ms
Oct 3, 2026990 ms
Oct 10, 2026976 ms
Oct 17, 2026993 ms
Oct 24, 2026991 ms
Oct 31, 2026980 ms
Nov 7, 2026899 ms
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
105 ms79 msMay 23Nov 796 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 202687 ms
May 30, 202686 ms
Jun 6, 202685 ms
Jun 13, 202685 ms
Jun 20, 202682 ms
Jun 27, 202686 ms
Jul 4, 202688 ms
Jul 11, 202687 ms
Jul 18, 202688 ms
Jul 25, 202688 ms
Aug 1, 202688 ms
Aug 8, 202690 ms
Aug 15, 202693 ms
Aug 22, 202695 ms
Aug 29, 202698 ms
Sep 5, 2026102 ms
Sep 12, 2026102 ms
Sep 19, 202699 ms
Sep 26, 202697 ms
Oct 3, 202697 ms
Oct 10, 202697 ms
Oct 17, 2026102 ms
Oct 24, 202699 ms
Oct 31, 2026102 ms
Nov 7, 202696 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of thevapestore.ca (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. thevapestore.ca at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. thevapestore.ca at 1.3 s1.3 s
  3. thevapestore.ca at 2.0 s2.0 s
  4. thevapestore.ca at 2.7 s2.7 s
  5. thevapestore.ca at 3.3 s3.3 s
  6. thevapestore.ca at 4.0 s4.0 s
  7. thevapestore.ca at 4.7 s4.7 s
  8. thevapestore.ca at 5.3 s5.3 s

Speed

8 to fix75
  • 7,308 HTML elements

    The page has 7,308 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    910 ms · 390 KiB

    About 390 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 910 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    950 ms · 327 KiB

    6 images could be 327 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 950 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 75

    75/100

    Your mobile performance score is 75. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Google Tag Manager and Google Maps and others), adding 1.4 MB and 350 ms of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    450 ms

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

  • Main-thread work: 2.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 654 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Shopify adds 111 ms

    111 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 111 ms of main-thread work and 666 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.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 24 KiB

    About 24 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 84 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    39 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (39 KiB).

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    37 KiB

    37 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • Minify JavaScript

    7 KiB

    7 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 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.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 8 ms

    8 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.3 s

    6.3 s

    Your largest element takes 6.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.6 s

    9.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 21% slower for real visitors

    +21%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.8 s to 0.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Speed Index: 4.6 s

    4.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 14% slower for real visitors

    +14%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 96 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

9 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 0.9 s

    0.9 s

    Real visitors wait 0.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 96 ms

    96 ms

    Real visitors wait 96 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 0.8 s

    0.8 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 0.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 333 ms

    333 ms

    Real visitors wait 333 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 17 ms

    17 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 17 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix75
  • Page weight: 2.9 MB in 325 requests

    2.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.9 MB in 325 requests on a phone: scripts 1.1 MB (140), other files 871 KiB (140) and images 590 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    208 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Canadian-health-warning.jpg at 7,930 px wide, shown at 353 px. Resized copies would save about 208 KiB.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.81 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.81 g of CO₂e: 97.5 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 load when needed

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

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9495
  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (5 elements)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 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.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (14 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 14 elements on the page fail 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.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 187 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 51 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 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

3 to fixGoogle 10090
  • No structured data

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

  • 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.

  • 770 internal links, 14 external

    The homepage links to 770 pages on thevapestore.ca and 14 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 147 characters

    Your meta description is 147 characters: “Ontario's trusted vape shop. Locations in Oshawa, Whitby, Port Perry, Lindsay, Minden & Peterborough. Shop disposables,…”.

  • Title: 52 characters

    Your title is a healthy 52 characters: “The Vape Store | Vape Shop — Ontario & Online Canada”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://thevapestore.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://thevapestore.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.

3 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.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (4,034 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://thevapestore.ca/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 7 pages without a meta description

    https://thevapestore.ca/collections/a-h, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/clx-free-base, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/dvine-blue-labes, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/dvine-classic, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/flavor-town and https://thevapestore.ca/collections/ghost-drop and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 pages without an H1

    https://thevapestore.ca/collections/vape-juice, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/a-h, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/cabin-fever-ejuice, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/clx-free-base, https://thevapestore.ca/collections/dvine-blue-labes and https://thevapestore.ca/collections/dvine-classic and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 184 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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.

  • 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 9693
  • 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

    14 of 15 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix64
  • 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.

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    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.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 14 trust badges. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

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

  • No opening hours

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

  • 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 map or directions link

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

  • 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 1,774 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 1,774 words of visible text.

  • Urgency cues

    The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

3 checks passed
  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Subscribe”.

  • 72 short forms

    72 short forms (3 fields at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

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

  • 9 cookies set on arrival

    9

    Opening the homepage sets 9 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.

  • 15 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 15 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 thevapestore.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

orderlogicapp.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
Hosting
Shopify

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

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