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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202641 issues · 85 checks

This review found 41 issues worth fixing on tradehome.com, 11 of them high impact, across 85 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.9 s1.1 sMay 16Oct 311.2 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.8 s
May 23, 20261.8 s
May 30, 20261.8 s
Jun 6, 20261.8 s
Jun 13, 20261.8 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.8 s
Jul 4, 20261.7 s
Jul 11, 20261.5 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.3 s
Aug 1, 20261.2 s
Aug 8, 20261.2 s
Aug 15, 20261.2 s
Aug 22, 20261.2 s
Aug 29, 20261.2 s
Sep 5, 20261.2 s
Sep 12, 20261.2 s
Sep 19, 20261.2 s
Sep 26, 20261.2 s
Oct 3, 20261.2 s
Oct 10, 20261.2 s
Oct 17, 20261.2 s
Oct 24, 20261.2 s
Oct 31, 20261.2 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
125 ms92 msMay 16Oct 31119 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202696 ms
May 23, 202696 ms
May 30, 2026101 ms
Jun 6, 2026104 ms
Jun 13, 2026107 ms
Jun 20, 2026110 ms
Jun 27, 2026112 ms
Jul 4, 2026112 ms
Jul 11, 2026112 ms
Jul 18, 2026113 ms
Jul 25, 2026114 ms
Aug 1, 2026117 ms
Aug 8, 2026118 ms
Aug 15, 2026120 ms
Aug 22, 2026120 ms
Aug 29, 2026120 ms
Sep 5, 2026121 ms
Sep 12, 2026121 ms
Sep 19, 2026121 ms
Sep 26, 2026121 ms
Oct 3, 2026121 ms
Oct 10, 2026121 ms
Oct 17, 2026121 ms
Oct 24, 2026120 ms
Oct 31, 2026119 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 tradehome.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. tradehome.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. tradehome.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. tradehome.com at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. tradehome.com at 1.8 s1.8 s
  5. tradehome.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  6. tradehome.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  7. tradehome.com at 3.1 s3.1 s
  8. tradehome.com at 3.6 s3.6 s

Speed

13 to fix54
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    5.0 s · 1.0 MB

    About 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 5.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.0 s · 143 KiB

    17 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (143 KiB).

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, negate.io and rebuyengine.com and others), adding 2.2 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 54

    54/100

    Your mobile performance score is 54. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Improve image delivery

    400 ms · 281 KiB

    10 images could be 281 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 400 ms faster on a phone.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 330 ms

    330 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 330 ms of main-thread work and 517 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

    300 ms · 67 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 67 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 55 KiB

    About 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: 3.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • negate.io adds 305 ms

    305 ms

    negate.io costs a phone 305 ms of main-thread work and 40 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.

  • rebuyengine.com adds 178 ms

    178 ms

    rebuyengine.com costs a phone 178 ms of main-thread work and 655 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.

  • Shopify adds 144 ms

    144 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 144 ms of main-thread work and 530 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.

  • 1,835 HTML elements

    The page has 1,835 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Minify JavaScript

    290 ms · 11 KiB

    11 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 180 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Render-blocking requests

    100 ms

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 100 ms.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web 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.

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

7 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 25.5 s

    25.5 s

    Your largest element takes 25.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 25.9 s

    25.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 25.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 9.4 s

    9.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 9.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.0 s

    4.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) got 24% slower for real visitors

    +24%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 119 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Total Blocking Time: 250 ms

    250 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 250 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 6 images without width and height

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

8 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: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 137 ms

    137 ms

    Real visitors wait 137 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.02

    0.02

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 428 ms

    428 ms

    Real visitors wait 428 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 32% faster for real visitors

    -32%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

4 to fix25
  • Page weight: 4.5 MB in 312 requests

    4.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.5 MB in 312 requests on a phone: scripts 2.3 MB (113), other files 904 KiB (149) and images 707 KiB (16). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image over 500 KB

    b623fa31-3838-464a-a984-c23b48067d60.png weighs 1.1 MB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    617 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example b623fa31-3838-464a-a984-c23b48067d60.png at 893 px wide, shown at 195 px. Resized copies would save about 617 KiB.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (1.1 MB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 3 images below the first screen load straight away

    3 images further down the page (145 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.27 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.27 g of CO₂e: 152.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

5 to fixGoogle 8493
  • 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.

  • 3 images without alt text

    3 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (9 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 9 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 2 tap targets too small

    2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed
  • 48 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 48 passed and 5 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 8582
  • Title is short (15 characters)

    Your title is only 15 characters: “Tradehome Shoes”. 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.

  • Meta description is long (254 characters)

    Your meta description is 254 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 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.

  • Open Graph partly set

    Open Graph is missing og:title and og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 235 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 235 pages on tradehome.com and 4 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Top Picks”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • 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://tradehome.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.

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

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 1 page without a meta description

    https://tradehome.com/pages/rewards has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 15 pages without an H1

    https://tradehome.com/pages/rewards, https://tradehome.com/pages/store-locator, https://tradehome.com/collections/gift-cards, https://tradehome.com/collections/womens, https://tradehome.com/collections/womens-running-shoes and https://tradehome.com/collections/womens-athletic-sneakers 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 194 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
  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Identifier 'origFetch' has already been declared”.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    45 of 48 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix79
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 87 testimonial or review blocks. 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 direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • About 519 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 519 words of visible text.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP ALL BOOTS”.

  • 8 calls to action

    The homepage has 8 calls to action, for example “SHOP ALL BOOTS”, “SHOP” and “Join Today”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • 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

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before 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.

  • 24 cookies set on arrival

    24

    Opening the homepage sets 24 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.

  • 49 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 49 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 tradehome.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 16 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Consentmo Gdpr · Dropinblog · Userway Website Accessibility · Swatch King · Quinn Shoppable Reel · Sitemap Noindex Pro Seo · Ignite Formerly Fueled · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Variant Image Swatch · Gdpr Backpack · Quick Announcement Bar Prod · Free Shipping Bar · 56071677a62720b5cde4241477474f626e61c35a · verifypass.com · hextom.com · rebuyengine.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

Company

Founded
1921
Headquarters
Cottage Grove

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

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