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uaudio.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202637 issues · 92 checks
This review found 37 issues worth fixing on uaudio.com, 13 of them high impact, across 92 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
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- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
78C- #45,773 of 90,913 reviewed websitesbeats 44%
- #28,056 of 47,891 online storesbeats 36%
- #26,628 of 43,103 Shopify storesbeats 33%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 207 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 205 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 202 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 207 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 210 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 208 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 206 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 183 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 184 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 186 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 185 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 189 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 191 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 191 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
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.6 s · 1.7 MBAbout 1.7 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.6 s faster on a phone.
Main-thread work: 11.5 s
A phone's processor spends 11.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 7.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Mobile performance score: 31
31/100Your mobile performance score is 31. 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 (Sentry, Google Tag Manager and Shopify and others), adding 4.0 MB and 3.7 s of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
1.1 MB10 images could be 1.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
Google Tag Manager adds 766 ms
766 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 766 ms of main-thread work and 682 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.
Sentry adds 822 ms
822 msSentry costs a phone 822 ms of main-thread work and 55 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 632 ms
632 msShopify costs a phone 632 ms of main-thread work and 1.6 MB 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.
YouTube adds 591 ms
591 msYouTube costs a phone 591 ms of main-thread work and 1,013 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.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
660 KiB29 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (660 KiB).
Reduce unused CSS
430 ms · 124 KiBAbout 124 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 430 ms faster on a phone.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 413 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
ContentSquare adds 347 ms
347 msContentSquare costs a phone 347 ms of main-thread work and 166 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.
1,696 HTML elements
The page has 1,696 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 92 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 92 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
150 ms3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 150 ms.
Minify JavaScript
141 KiB141 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Duplicated JavaScript
41 KiB41 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
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: 13 ms
13 msYour server sent the HTML in 13 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 12.1 s
12.1 sYour largest element takes 12.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 39.9 s
39.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 39.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 11.7 s
11.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 11.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 2.0 s
2.0 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 2.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 3.8 s
3.8 sThe first text or image appears after 3.8 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
4 images without width and height
4 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 207 ms to 191 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
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: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 178 ms
178 msReal visitors wait 178 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.10
0.10For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.10 (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: 416 ms
416 msReal visitors wait 416 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 22% faster for real visitors
-22%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.009
0.009The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.009, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 7.6 MB in 389 requests
7.6 MBYour homepage downloads 7.6 MB in 389 requests on a phone: scripts 4.3 MB (137), images 1.7 MB (24) and other files 1.1 MB (212). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
6 images far larger than shown
913 KiB6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example volt-2-max-gallery-1-v2.png at 2,496 px wide, shown at 243 px. Resized copies would save about 913 KiB.
2 images in older formats
2 images (209 KiB) are 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.
About 2.1 g of CO₂ per visit
2.15 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.15 g of CO₂e: 257.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
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.
4 form fields without a label
4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
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 (h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
35 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 36 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 35 passed and 1 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
25 links with vague text
25 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:title, 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.
128 internal links, 10 external
The homepage links to 128 pages on uaudio.com and 10 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 152 characters
Your meta description is 152 characters: “Universal Audio is the world's leader in Thunderbolt audio interfaces, analog recording hardware, and UAD audio plug-in…”.
Title: 49 characters
Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “Universal Audio | Audio Interfaces | UAD Plug-Ins”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.uaudio.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization 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://www.uaudio.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (535 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
3 pages without a meta description
/collections/plug-ins-on-sale, /pages/mix-tape-pro-plugin-bundles and /collections/luna 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 53 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
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
27 small tap targets
27 of 69 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
5 third-party cookies
5 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
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.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 483 words of copy
The homepage carries about 483 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop All Plug-Ins”.
15 calls to action
The homepage has 15 calls to action, for example “Shop All Plug-Ins”, “Shop” and “Start Free Trial”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
10 trackers load before any consent
10Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Heap and LinkedIn Insight and 5 mores (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.
35 cookies set on arrival
35Opening the homepage sets 35 cookies, 1 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.
50 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 50 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 uaudio.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Hiring
- Hiring
- 2 open roles
- Teams
- Customer Care (1), Procurement (1)
- Job board
- greenhouse
Company
- Employees
- 298
- Founded
- 1958
- Headquarters
- Scotts Valley
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