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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202630 issues · 94 checks

This review found 30 issues worth fixing on zenb.com, 7 of them high impact, across 94 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. 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

Full-page screenshot of zenb.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. zenb.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. zenb.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  3. zenb.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  4. zenb.com at 2.1 s2.1 s
  5. zenb.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  6. zenb.com at 3.2 s3.2 s
  7. zenb.com at 3.7 s3.7 s
  8. zenb.com at 4.2 s4.2 s

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

Speed

7 to fix85
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.1 s

    7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 85

    85/100

    Your mobile performance score is 85. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    600 ms · 117 KiB

    11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (117 KiB).

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Evidon, rebuyengine.com and Yotpo and others), adding 686 KiB and 544 ms of main-thread time.

  • 2 long tasks on the main thread

    2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 276 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    276 KiB

    About 276 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Evidon adds 253 ms

    253 ms

    Evidon costs a phone 253 ms of main-thread work and 62 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

    51 KiB

    About 51 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    37 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 37 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Minify JavaScript

    15 KiB

    15 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Improve image delivery

    6 KiB

    1 image could be 6 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Minify CSS

    6 KiB

    6 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • 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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  • Main-thread work: 1.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 707 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 3 ms

    3 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 3 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix91
  • Time to Interactive: 8.0 s

    8.0 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.2 s

    5.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.2 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    Your largest element takes 2.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We use technologies to personalize and enhance your experie…”. Most of its time is element render delay (1.4 s).

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • 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.

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  • Total Blocking Time: 194 ms

    194 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 194 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

100
  • About 0.5 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.51 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.51 g of CO₂e: 61.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Page weight: 1.8 MB in 190 requests

    1.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 1.8 MB in 190 requests on a phone: other files 853 KiB (123), scripts 699 KiB (45) and fonts 119 KiB (5). That is a lean page.

  • 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

2 to fixGoogle 9296
  • 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.

  • Positive tabindex

    1 element has a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 4 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 42 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 2 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
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is long (174 characters)

    Your meta description is 174 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.

  • 10 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 10 pages on zenb.com and 2 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Title: 48 characters

    Your title is a healthy 48 characters: “Plant Based Pasta | for Gluten Free Meals | ZENB”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://zenb.com/.

  • 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://zenb.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

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 (718 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

4 to fix76
  • 2 pages point its canonical at the homepage

    /pages/zenb-faq and /pages/shipping-returns 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.

  • 3 pages share a title

    /, /pages/zenb-faq and /pages/shipping-returns all use the title “Plant Based Pasta | for Gluten Free Meals | ZENB”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    /pages/zenb-faq and /pages/shipping-returns use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 2 pages without an H1

    /pages/zenb-faq and /pages/shipping-returns have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 6 internal pages checked

    We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 6 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 6 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 6 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 7385
  • 5 small tap targets

    5 of 24 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Connecting to 'https://otlp-http-production.shopifysvc.com/v1/metrics' violates the following Content Security Policy d…”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Content security policy”).

1 checks passed
  • 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.

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (zenb.com).

  • Valid certificate (50 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for zenb.com and is valid for another 50 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://zenb.com 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 8 links work

    All 8 links checked from your homepage (7 internal, 1 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    zenb.com 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.

  • DNSSEC is off

    zenb.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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  • Domain is 21 years old

    21 years

    zenb.com was registered in Mar 2005 through 1API GmbH. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Mar 2027

    zenb.com is registered until Mar 2027.

Content and conversion

3 to fix71
  • No social proof

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

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • Only about 215 words

    The homepage has only about 215 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

4 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Shop ZENB on Amazon”.

  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Shop ZENB on Amazon”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 3 email links.

Email authentication

90
  • Email authentication score: 90/100

    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.protection.outlook.com -all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector2”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Meta 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.

  • 7 cookies set on arrival

    7

    Opening the homepage sets 7 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.

  • 13 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 1 app. It is code from another company running for your shoppers.

None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.

Apps your storefront loads

Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms

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
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify Hosted

Company

Founded
2019
Headquarters
Chicago

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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