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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 8 November 202646 issues · 109 checks

This review found 46 issues worth fixing on trycreate.co, 18 of them high impact, across 109 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
5.3 s2.8 sMay 16Oct 313.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20263.1 s
May 23, 20263.1 s
May 30, 20263.3 s
Jun 6, 20263.4 s
Jun 13, 20263.5 s
Jun 20, 20263.7 s
Jun 27, 20264.0 s
Jul 4, 20264.7 s
Jul 11, 20264.9 s
Jul 18, 20265.0 s
Jul 25, 20265.0 s
Aug 1, 20264.8 s
Aug 8, 20265.0 s
Aug 15, 20264.9 s
Aug 22, 20264.7 s
Aug 29, 20264.2 s
Sep 5, 20263.5 s
Sep 12, 20263.2 s
Sep 19, 20263.0 s
Sep 26, 20263.3 s
Oct 3, 20263.4 s
Oct 10, 20263.4 s
Oct 17, 20263.5 s
Oct 24, 20263.2 s
Oct 31, 20263.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
291 ms162 msMay 16Oct 31213 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 2026177 ms
May 23, 2026179 ms
May 30, 2026197 ms
Jun 6, 2026212 ms
Jun 13, 2026221 ms
Jun 20, 2026238 ms
Jun 27, 2026244 ms
Jul 4, 2026276 ms
Jul 11, 2026272 ms
Jul 18, 2026246 ms
Jul 25, 2026229 ms
Aug 1, 2026211 ms
Aug 8, 2026220 ms
Aug 15, 2026234 ms
Aug 22, 2026248 ms
Aug 29, 2026243 ms
Sep 5, 2026235 ms
Sep 12, 2026222 ms
Sep 19, 2026220 ms
Sep 26, 2026221 ms
Oct 3, 2026213 ms
Oct 10, 2026212 ms
Oct 17, 2026197 ms
Oct 24, 2026196 ms
Oct 31, 2026213 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 trycreate.co (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. trycreate.co at 1.0 s1.0 s
  2. trycreate.co at 2.0 s2.0 s
  3. trycreate.co at 3.1 s3.1 s
  4. trycreate.co at 4.1 s4.1 s
  5. trycreate.co at 5.1 s5.1 s
  6. trycreate.co at 6.1 s6.1 s
  7. trycreate.co at 7.2 s7.2 s
  8. trycreate.co at 8.2 s8.2 s

trycreate.co does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

12 to fix43
  • Improve image delivery

    1.5 s · 622 KiB

    15 images could be 622 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Main-thread work: 10.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 10.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Mobile performance score: 43

    43/100

    Your mobile performance score is 43. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • 5,250 HTML elements

    The page has 5,250 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (alia-prod.com, Shopify and rebuyengine.com and others), adding 2.1 MB and 1.8 s of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    799 KiB

    About 799 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    150 ms · 533 KiB

    30 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (533 KiB).

  • alia-prod.com adds 534 ms

    534 ms

    alia-prod.com costs a phone 534 ms of main-thread work and 672 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 529 ms

    529 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 529 ms of main-thread work and 659 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    450 ms

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

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 268 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • rebuyengine.com adds 207 ms

    207 ms

    rebuyengine.com costs a phone 207 ms of main-thread work and 400 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 · 28 KiB

    About 28 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    75 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 75 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 28 ms

    28 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 28 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 25.0 s

    25.0 s

    Your largest element takes 25.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Speed Index: 17.2 s

    17.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 17.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 42.6 s

    42.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 42.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 938 ms

    938 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 938 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 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 15% slower for real visitors

    +15%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 177 ms to 213 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 11% slower for real visitors

    +11%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 3.1 s to 3.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • 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: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors wait 2.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 153 ms

    153 ms

    Real visitors wait 153 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: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

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

  • Real-user TTFB: 616 ms

    616 ms

    Real visitors wait 616 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.001

    0.001

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.001, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix50
  • Page weight: 10.8 MB in 485 requests

    10.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 10.8 MB in 485 requests on a phone: images 6.8 MB (120), scripts 2.1 MB (156) and other files 876 KiB (160). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 10 images far larger than shown

    994 KiB

    10 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Darren_Candow_Headshot.jpg at 390 px wide, shown at 60 px. Resized copies would save about 994 KiB.

  • About 3.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.05 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.05 g of CO₂e: 366.4 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 load when needed

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

Accessibility

11 to fixGoogle 7783
  • 57 buttons without a name

    57 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • <svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text (112 elements)

    <svg> elements with an img or image role must have alternative text: 112 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 42 text elements with low contrast

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

  • 14 tap targets too small

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

  • Malformed lists

    Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

  • 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.

  • 34 images without alt text

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (181 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 181 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • 22 links without text

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

  • ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (27 elements)

    ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 27 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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  • 43 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: 43 passed and 11 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 9280
  • Title is short (22 characters)

    Your title is only 22 characters: “Creatine for Everybody”. 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.

  • 5 H1 headlines

    There are 5 <h1> headlines (“Daily Creatine.With a sour twist.”, “Daily Creatine.With a sour twist.” and “Two electric flavors.Double the gains.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No robots.txt

    There is no robots.txt at trycreate.co/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

  • 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.

  • 110 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 110 pages on trycreate.co and 5 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 99 characters

    Your meta description is 99 characters: “Create Wellness: Daily creatine that fits your life: Delicious, convenient, and easy to stick with.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://trycreate.co/.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://trycreate.co/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix81
  • 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.

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  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (4,849 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

5 to fix71
  • 4 pages point its canonical at the homepage

    /discount/SOURSUMMER, /discount/LEMONADE, /discount/JUICEBOX and /discount/LFGUMMY declare the homepage as their canonical URL, which tells Google they are copies of the homepage and keeps them out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

  • 5 pages share a title

    /, /discount/SOURSUMMER, /discount/LEMONADE, /discount/JUICEBOX and /discount/LFGUMMY all use the title “Creatine for Everybody”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 5 pages without a meta description

    /products/creatine-monohydrate-stick-packs, /pages/the-science, /pages/our-quality-promise, /pages/create-referral-program and /products/creatine-electrolytes-mix-variety-bundles have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 4 pages share a meta description

    /discount/SOURSUMMER, /discount/LEMONADE, /discount/JUICEBOX and /discount/LFGUMMY use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 6 pages without an H1

    /products/creatine-electrolytes-mix, /products/creatine-monohydrate-gummies, /products/create-bundles, /pages/create-referral-program, /products/creatine-electrolytes-mix-variety-bundles and /pages/creatine-monohydrate-products-all have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    /products/creatine-electrolytes-mix and /products/create-bundles 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.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    /discount/LFGUMMY took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 22 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.

  • 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

3 to fixGoogle 5488
  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    118 of 146 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (trycreate.co).

  • Valid certificate (59 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for trycreate.co and is valid for another 59 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://trycreate.co redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 45 links work

    All 45 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 5 external) answered without errors; 9 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    trycreate.co has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

Content and conversion

100
  • About 3,452 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 3,452 words of visible text.

  • Urgency cues

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

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

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

  • 16 calls to action

    The homepage has 16 calls to action, for example “Shop Shop”, “SHOP ALL” and “Let's Jam - Shop Sour Grape”.

  • 17 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 20 testimonial or review blocks, a star rating, 4 trust badges and “10K+ Reviews”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Email authentication

1 to fix80
  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Email authentication score: 80/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

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  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:shops.shopify.com include:sendgrid.net include:klaviyo.com -all”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo, Microsoft Clarity and Snap 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.

  • 54 cookies set on arrival

    54

    Opening the homepage sets 54 cookies, 2 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.

  • 64 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 64 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

E-commerce
10 Shopify Products;Shopify;Shopify Plus
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
New York

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