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ursamajorvt.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202634 issues · 86 checks
This review found 34 issues worth fixing on ursamajorvt.com, 12 of them high impact, across 86 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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
80B- #38,221 of 96,453 reviewed websitesbeats 55%
- #24,370 of 52,263 online storesbeats 47%
- #23,380 of 47,344 Shopify storesbeats 44%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 2.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 171 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 170 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 167 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 166 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 169 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 179 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 177 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 172 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 171 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 173 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 181 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 184 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 187 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 189 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 187 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
1.0 s
2.0 s
3.0 s
3.9 s
4.9 s
5.9 s
6.9 s
7.9 s
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Mobile performance score: 43
43/100Your mobile performance score is 43. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 9.1 s
A phone's processor spends 9.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, rebuyengine.com and heatmap.com and others), adding 2.1 MB and 2.0 s of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.2 MBAbout 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 907 KiB42 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (907 KiB).
Google Tag Manager adds 689 ms
689 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 689 ms of main-thread work and 702 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.
Improve image delivery
747 KiB7 images could be 747 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 491 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
rebuyengine.com adds 318 ms
318 msrebuyengine.com costs a phone 318 ms of main-thread work and 551 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
300 ms · 62 KiBAbout 62 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.
heatmap.com adds 304 ms
304 msheatmap.com costs a phone 304 ms of main-thread work and 96 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.
2,796 HTML elements
The page has 2,796 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Minify JavaScript
150 ms · 5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
Legacy JavaScript
100 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 100 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.
Minify CSS
5 KiB5 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 17 ms
17 msYour server sent the HTML in 17 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Time to Interactive: 44.4 s
44.4 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 44.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 10.3 s
10.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 10.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 5.9 s
5.9 sYour largest element takes 5.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Total Blocking Time: 1.1 s
1.1 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
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 10% slower for real visitors
+10%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 171 ms to 187 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
9 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: 1.6 s
1.6 sReal visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 163 ms
163 msReal visitors wait 163 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.4 s
1.4 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 522 ms
522 msReal visitors wait 522 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest content (LCP) got 18% faster for real visitors
-18%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.097
0.097The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.097, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 1.6 s
1.6 sThe first text or image appears after 1.6 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 9.3 MB in 531 requests
9.3 MBYour homepage downloads 9.3 MB in 531 requests on a phone: images 4.3 MB (65), scripts 3.2 MB (138) and other files 1.3 MB (263). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 2.6 g of CO₂ per visit
2.64 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.64 g of CO₂e: 316.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
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.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents (11 elements)
Certain ARIA roles must be contained by particular parents: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated critical by axe-core.
5 tap targets too small
5 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)
Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
4 links without text
4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
2 form fields without a label
2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 79 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
51 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 51 passed and 4 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.
Meta description is long (165 characters)
Your meta description is 165 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.
136 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 136 pages on ursamajorvt.com and 7 external pages.
6 checks passed
Title: 59 characters
Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “Ursa Major | Clean, Forest-Infused Skincare Made in Vermont”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.ursamajorvt.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: OnlineStore 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://www.ursamajorvt.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: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details; logo would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,907 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.ursamajorvt.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
2 pages without an H1
https://www.ursamajorvt.com/pages/spf-waitlist and https://www.ursamajorvt.com/pages/build-your-own-bundle 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 49 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.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
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
3 broken images
3 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.ursamajorvt.com/cdn/shop/files/1015_HP_HERO_DT_x2_459766b9-3206-4712-9ee1-0547888c3a53.jpg?v=1791925664&width=352.
13 small tap targets
13 of 57 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to fetch r.fetch (https://www.ursamajorvt.com/cdn/wpm/s4e7a7028w708d11bfpd22fc97dm92febe21m.js:1:74498)”.
Missing source maps
Large scripts ship without source maps.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 553 words of copy
The homepage carries about 553 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Our Holiday Shop is open! SHOP NOW” and “SHOP ALL”.
19 calls to action
The homepage has 19 calls to action, for example “Our Holiday Shop is open! SHOP NOW”, “Our Holiday Shop is open! | SHOP NOW” and “SHOP ALL”.
3 short forms
3 short forms (2 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 27 testimonial or review blocks, a star rating and 1 trust badge.
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
9 trackers load before any consent
9Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 4 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.
42 cookies set on arrival
42Opening the homepage sets 42 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.
72 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 72 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 ursamajorvt.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 22 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Pieeye · Rebuy Personalization Engine · Awin Affiliate Marketing · Elevar Conversion Tracking · Nudge Ursa Major · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Postscript Sms Marketing · Videowise Video Commerce · Digioh · Okendo · Loop Returns · Test Sms · 56071677a62720b5cde4241477474f626e61c35a · Discount Kit · cloudfront.net · rechargecdn.com · gorgias.chat · pii.ai · rebuyengine.com · nfcube.com · nofraud.com · 9gtb.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
- Framework
- Vue.js
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- Waterbury
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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