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thewaypros.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202636 issues · 83 checks
This review found 36 issues worth fixing on thewaypros.com, 12 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 4.0 MB in 224 requests. 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
Site score
78C- #52,303 of 102,930 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #33,646 of 57,283 online storesbeats 36%
- #32,118 of 52,120 Shopify storesbeats 33%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2026 | 122 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 120 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 121 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 109 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 104 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
Speed
3,286 HTML elements
The page has 3,286 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 1.3 MB25 images could be 1.3 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 75
75/100Your mobile performance score is 75. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
900 ms4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 900 ms.
Reduce unused CSS
300 ms · 55 KiBAbout 55 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: 2.3 s
A phone's processor spends 2.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 423 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Shopify adds 99 ms
99 msShopify costs a phone 99 ms of main-thread work and 446 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 JavaScript
150 ms · 97 KiBAbout 97 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.
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify and shop.app), adding 453 KiB and 99 ms of main-thread time.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 58 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
6 KiB4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6 KiB).
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 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 9.6 s
9.6 sYour largest element takes 9.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 10.1 s
10.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 10.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
11 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: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 104 ms
104 msReal visitors wait 104 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 640 ms
640 msReal visitors wait 640 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 15% faster for real visitors
-15%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 122 ms to 104 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Speed Index: 2.7 s
2.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.7 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 4 ms
4 msScripts block the page for only 4 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 4.0 MB in 224 requests
4.0 MBYour homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 224 requests on a phone: images 2.4 MB (29), other files 923 KiB (132) and scripts 393 KiB (50). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
x17.png 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 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit
1.13 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.13 g of CO₂e: 136.1 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
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values (7 elements)
ARIA attributes must conform to valid values: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.
35 text elements with low contrast
35 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
7 tap targets too small
7 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
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.
40 images without alt text
40 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
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.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 form fields without a label
2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (5 elements)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Table header text should not be empty (1 element)
Table header text should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
<td> elements in a large <table> do not have table headers.
<td> elements in a large <table> do not have table headers. (1 element).
1 checks passed
53 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 61 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 passed and 8 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
Title is short (11 characters)
Your title is only 11 characters: “The Waypros”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“The Waypros” and “Halloween Personalized PKM Wooden Garland”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
101 internal links, 0 external
The homepage links to 101 pages on thewaypros.com and 0 external pages.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://thewaypros.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization, Product and WebSite.
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://thewaypros.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
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 (1,970 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://thewaypros.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
8 pages without a meta description
https://thewaypros.com/collections/halloween, https://thewaypros.com/collections/christmas, https://thewaypros.com/collections/mothers-day, https://thewaypros.com/collections/fathers-day, https://thewaypros.com/collections/birthday-gift and https://thewaypros.com/collections/sport and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
1 page without an H1
https://thewaypros.com/products/halloween-personalized-pkm-wooden-garland has 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 59 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
14 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.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
10 broken images
10 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://thewaypros.com/Liquid%20error%20(sections/horizontal-ticker%20line%20153):%20invalid%20url%20input.
13 small tap targets
13 of 36 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
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 ()”.
1 checks passed
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.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. 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.
About 835 words of copy
The homepage carries about 835 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact Information”, “Contact Us” and “Contact information”.
6 short forms
6 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager 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.
10 cookies set on arrival
10Opening the homepage sets 10 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.
13 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 13 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 thewaypros.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 2 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Pify Size Charts · Ymq Product Options
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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