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traceadkins.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202638 issues · 82 checks
This review found 38 issues worth fixing on traceadkins.com, 13 of them high impact, across 82 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
76C- #66,774 of 108,880 reviewed websitesbeats 34%
- #42,927 of 61,767 online storesbeats 26%
- #40,748 of 56,365 Shopify storesbeats 23%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 96 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 101 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 100 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 99 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Nov 7, 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.2 s
1.6 s
2.0 s
2.5 s
2.9 s
3.3 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
2.9 s · 622 KiBAbout 622 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1.6 s · 419 KiB19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (419 KiB).
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s20 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 41
41/100Your mobile performance score is 41. 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, Facebook and Accessibe Accessibility Overlay and others), adding 1.8 MB and 1.5 s of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
850 ms · 191 KiB5 images could be 191 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 850 ms faster on a phone.
Google Tag Manager adds 723 ms
723 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 723 ms of main-thread work and 796 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.
Facebook adds 329 ms
329 msFacebook costs a phone 329 ms of main-thread work and 310 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: 3.2 s
A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
13 long tasks on the main thread
13 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 232 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 39 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 39 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Reduce unused CSS
24 KiBAbout 24 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 3 ms
3 msYour server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Largest Contentful Paint: 19.0 s
19.0 sYour largest element takes 19.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 21.8 s
21.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 21.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 9.0 s
9.0 sVisually, the page fills in at 9.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 810 ms
810 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 810 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 3.4 s
3.4 sThe first text or image appears after 3.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user FCP: 2.2 s
2.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+8%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 104 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+1%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.9 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors wait 2.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 113 ms
113 msReal visitors wait 113 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.02
0.02For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 750 ms
750 msReal visitors wait 750 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.6 MB in 230 requests
3.6 MBYour homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 230 requests on a phone: scripts 2.0 MB (96), images 717 KiB (15) and other files 659 KiB (93). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image far larger than shown
81 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example slide-1-image.jpg at 1,920 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 81 KiB.
3 images below the first screen load straight away
3 images further down the page (70 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit
1.03 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.03 g of CO₂e: 123.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Accessibility
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
<html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)
<html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
4 links without text
4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
No page language
The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
13 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 16 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 13 passed and 3 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (27 characters)
Your title is only 27 characters: “Trace Adkins | Trace Adkins”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
1 link with vague text
1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.
39 internal links, 8 external
The homepage links to 39 pages on traceadkins.com and 8 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 153 characters
Your meta description is 153 characters: “The official site of country music artist Trace Adkins. Join the free Trace Adkins Fan Community to get updates about T…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Latest News”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://traceadkins.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://traceadkins.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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 (122 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://traceadkins.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 pages share a title
https://traceadkins.com/pages/tour and https://traceadkins.com/tour all use the title “Trace Adkins | Tour | Trace Adkins”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
1 page without a meta description
https://traceadkins.com/pages/videos has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
6 pages share a meta description
https://traceadkins.com/pages/tour and https://traceadkins.com/tour use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 link to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://traceadkins.com/tour, whose canonical is https://traceadkins.com/pages/tour. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
1 page without an H1
https://traceadkins.com/collections/store has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
6 pages with very little text
https://traceadkins.com/pages/tour, https://traceadkins.com/pages/videos, https://traceadkins.com/tour, https://traceadkins.com/products/dreamin-out-loud-photo-tee-pre-order, https://traceadkins.com/products/magnet-dreamin-out-loud-pre-order and https://traceadkins.com/blogs/news/dreamin-out-loud-30th-anniversary-out-today have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 17 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
3 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
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
5 JavaScript errors while loading
5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
19 of 20 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 4 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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 189 words
The homepage has only about 189 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Join Now” and “Shop All”.
4 calls to action
The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Register an account”, “Join Now” and “Shop All”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 1 more (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.
31 cookies set on arrival
31Opening the homepage sets 31 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (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.
42 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 42 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 traceadkins.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 6 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Attentive · boldapps.net · addons.business · nfcube.com · klaviyo.com · attn.tv
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
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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