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vitalproject.co website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202626 issues · 70 checks
This review found 26 issues worth fixing on vitalproject.co, 9 of them high impact, across 70 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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- #41,261 of 104,114 reviewed websitesbeats 55%
- #27,073 of 58,214 online storesbeats 47%
- #26,031 of 53,010 Shopify storesbeats 44%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.2 s · 174 KiBAbout 174 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 63
63/100Your mobile performance score is 63. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 474 KiB2 images could be 474 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
650 ms8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 650 ms.
Reduce unused CSS
450 ms · 167 KiBAbout 167 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.
Shopify adds 220 ms
220 msShopify costs a phone 220 ms of main-thread work and 587 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.
1,697 HTML elements
The page has 1,697 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
6 third-party services on the page
6 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, avada.io and shop.app and others), adding 869 KiB and 280 ms of main-thread time.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 117 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
70 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (70 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 KiB2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.9 s
A phone's processor spends 1.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 744 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 7 ms
7 msYour server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 11.2 s
11.2 sYour largest element takes 11.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 11.2 s
11.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 11.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 3.3 s
3.3 sThe first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.3 s
6.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 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.
2 checks passed
Total Blocking Time: 88 ms
88 msScripts block the page for only 88 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.0 MB in 275 requests
3.0 MBYour homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 275 requests on a phone: images 899 KiB (16), scripts 874 KiB (117) and other files 871 KiB (124). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
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 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.84 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.84 g of CO₂e: 101.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
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
7 tap targets too small
7 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
Scrollable region must have keyboard access (4 elements)
Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
3 links without text
3 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h3 → h5, h3 → h5 and h3 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 6 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
48 internal links, 4 external
The homepage links to 48 pages on vitalproject.co and 4 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 124 characters
Your meta description is 124 characters: “Shop Vital Project's premium high-visibility neon hoodies, crop tops, and bold apparel. Built for those who want to be …”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Vital Project”.
Title: 50 characters
Your title is a healthy 50 characters: “Vital Project | Hi-Vis Neon Hoodies & Bold Apparel”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://vitalproject.co/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization.
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://vitalproject.co/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
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 (409 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://vitalproject.co/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 linked page is broken
Your homepage links to https://vitalproject.co/pages/shipping-returns-1, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.
2 pages without a meta description
https://vitalproject.co/pages/contact and https://vitalproject.co/policies/privacy-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
3 pages without an H1
https://vitalproject.co/collections/all, https://vitalproject.co/collections/black and https://vitalproject.co/collections/neon 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 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
4 checks passed
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 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
10 of 10 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block. 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.
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 623 words of copy
The homepage carries about 623 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 Now”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Contact” and “Shop Now”.
7 short forms
7 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Tag Manager (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.
8 cookies set on arrival
8Opening the homepage sets 8 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.
11 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 11 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 vitalproject.co, 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 4 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Optis Color Swatch · Air Reviews · Bestpush · Ecomsend
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
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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