watsons.sa website review

20 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.

The page has 3,772 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Your mobile performance score is 78. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 56 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (12 KiB).

3 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Unpkg and Yotpo), adding 123 KiB and 0 ms of main-thread time.

1 image could be 7 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Your largest element takes 5.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Watsons”.

Real visitors wait 205 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors wait 952 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 5.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

12 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 192 ms to 199 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.4 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

cart-mascot.webp 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 (32 KiB) is 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.30 g of CO₂e: 35.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 362 pages on watsons.sa and 9 external pages.

There is no https://www.watsons.sa/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

https://www.watsons.sa/policies/shipping-policy has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.watsons.sa/pages/faq-click-collect and https://www.watsons.sa/pages/faqs-shipping-services have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 180 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.

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

The homepage has only about 124 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.