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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202623 issues · 69 checks

This review found 23 issues worth fixing on truebuddywear.com, 11 of them high impact, across 69 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 72.8 MB in 312 requests. 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 truebuddywear.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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  3. truebuddywear.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. truebuddywear.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. truebuddywear.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. truebuddywear.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. truebuddywear.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. truebuddywear.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

6 to fix59
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.9 s

    8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.

  • Improve image delivery

    350 ms · 939 KiB

    20 images could be 939 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    860 ms · 155 KiB

    About 155 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 860 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 59

    59/100

    Your mobile performance score is 59. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Main-thread work: 2.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 805 ms of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Shopify adds 131 ms

    131 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 131 ms of main-thread work and 473 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.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Clarity, Shopify and starapps.studio and others), adding 534 KiB and 295 ms of main-thread time.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 52 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    37 KiB

    About 37 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    11 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (11 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.

  • Minify CSS

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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  • Server response: 6 ms

    6 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 13.1 s

    13.1 s

    Your largest element takes 13.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Speed Index: 13.8 s

    13.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 13.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 13.6 s

    13.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 13.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.5 s

    3.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 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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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

  • Total Blocking Time: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 2 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

2 to fix69
  • Page weight: 72.8 MB in 312 requests

    72.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 72.8 MB in 312 requests on a phone: media 68.9 MB (7), images 2.1 MB (27) and other files 1.2 MB (207). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    Sunset_Mountainwear__Wear_What_You_Believe.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).

  • 1 image below the first screen load straight away

    1 image further down the page (41 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 20.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    20.65 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 20.65 g of CO₂e: 2477.6 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 are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 8994
  • 11 tap targets too small

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

  • 4 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 2 images without alt text

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

  • 2 links without text

    2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

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

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).

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  • 50 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: 50 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

1 to fixGoogle 9295
  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 112 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 112 pages on truebuddywear.com and 7 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 134 characters

    Your meta description is 134 characters: “Celebrate companionship with True Buddy Wear. Sustainable, stylish, and meaningful apparel designed to inspire connecti…”.

  • Title: 55 characters

    Your title is a healthy 55 characters: “True Buddy Wear – Apparel that Celebrates Companionship”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.

  • 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://truebuddywear.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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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.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (660 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://truebuddywear.com/llms.txt (5 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 10 pages without a meta description

    https://truebuddywear.com/pages/why-we-wear, https://truebuddywear.com/collections/heritage-street-luxe-series, https://truebuddywear.com/collections/mens, https://truebuddywear.com/pages/buddys-mission, https://truebuddywear.com/collections/soul-tribe-chronicles and https://truebuddywear.com/collections/pack-royalty-breed-legends-edition and 4 others have 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 40 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • 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 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 “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    25 of 27 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix58
  • 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.

  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • 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.

  • 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 465 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 465 words of visible text.

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  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Shop by Garment Type”, “Shop Now” and “Join”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Meta Pixel and Microsoft Clarity (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.

  • 14 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 14 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 truebuddywear.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

Microsoft Clarity · Optis Color Swatch · Starapps Variant Image · Judge Me Reviews · Whatmorelive · Doran Shoppable Videos · Xb Wishlist

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
Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
Shopify

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

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