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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202628 issues · 82 checks

This review found 28 issues worth fixing on zhats.com, 9 of them high impact, across 82 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.9 s2.0 sMay 16Oct 312.5 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20262.8 s
May 23, 20262.6 s
May 30, 20262.5 s
Jun 6, 20262.4 s
Jun 13, 20262.3 s
Jun 20, 20262.4 s
Jun 27, 20262.4 s
Jul 4, 20262.5 s
Jul 11, 20262.5 s
Jul 18, 20262.4 s
Jul 25, 20262.4 s
Aug 1, 20262.3 s
Aug 8, 20262.2 s
Aug 15, 20262.1 s
Aug 22, 20262.1 s
Aug 29, 20262.1 s
Sep 5, 20262.1 s
Sep 12, 20262.2 s
Sep 19, 20262.2 s
Sep 26, 20262.2 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.3 s
Oct 17, 20262.3 s
Oct 24, 20262.4 s
Oct 31, 20262.5 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
93 ms85 msMay 16Oct 3189 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202690 ms
May 23, 202690 ms
May 30, 202688 ms
Jun 6, 202687 ms
Jun 13, 202687 ms
Jun 20, 202687 ms
Jun 27, 202687 ms
Jul 4, 202687 ms
Jul 11, 202686 ms
Jul 18, 202686 ms
Jul 25, 202687 ms
Aug 1, 202687 ms
Aug 8, 202687 ms
Aug 15, 202687 ms
Aug 22, 202686 ms
Aug 29, 202687 ms
Sep 5, 202687 ms
Sep 12, 202688 ms
Sep 19, 202690 ms
Sep 26, 202691 ms
Oct 3, 202692 ms
Oct 10, 202691 ms
Oct 17, 202687 ms
Oct 24, 202687 ms
Oct 31, 202689 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

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

How it loaded on a phone

  1. zhats.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  2. zhats.com at 2.2 s2.2 s
  3. zhats.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  4. zhats.com at 4.3 s4.3 s
  5. zhats.com at 5.4 s5.4 s
  6. zhats.com at 6.5 s6.5 s
  7. zhats.com at 7.6 s7.6 s
  8. zhats.com at 8.7 s8.7 s

Speed

7 to fix72
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    3.0 s · 1.4 MB

    79 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.4 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.7 s

    21 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.7 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 72

    72/100

    Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    450 ms · 361 KiB

    About 361 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Improve image delivery

    200 ms · 561 KiB

    7 images could be 561 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    350 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 350 ms).

  • Google Tag Manager adds 256 ms

    256 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 256 ms of main-thread work and 533 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.

  • 7 third-party services on the page

    7 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and GoDaddy and others), adding 595 KiB and 347 ms of main-thread time.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 75 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    11 KiB

    About 11 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 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: 1.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 696 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 48 ms

    48 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 48 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Real-user TTFB: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    Real visitors wait 2.4 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Speed Index: 12.9 s

    12.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 12.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 5.0 s

    5.0 s

    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 text “Individual style. Universal comfort. CUSTOMIZE YOURS 750K+ …”. Most of its time is resource load delay (7.9 s).

  • Time to Interactive: 7.6 s

    7.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 7.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.0 s

    3.0 s

    Real visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user FCP: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 90 ms to 89 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 95 ms

    95 ms

    Real visitors wait 95 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Largest content (LCP) got 11% faster for real visitors

    -11%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 66 ms

    66 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 66 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

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.0 MB in 106 requests

    2.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.0 MB in 106 requests on a phone: images 1,021 KiB (36), scripts 909 KiB (30) and stylesheets 42 KiB (18). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.57 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.57 g of CO₂e: 68.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • 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

4 to fixGoogle 9495
  • 13 text elements with low contrast

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (23 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 23 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (1 element)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 57 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 43 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 48 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10084
  • Title is long (72 characters)

    Your title is 72 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Zephyr Hats | Trendsetting Custom Hats, Caps And Beanies For Every Style”.

  • Meta description is long (175 characters)

    Your meta description is 175 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 2 problems

    Structured data found (Article, ClothingStore, ImageObject and Organization) but with 2 problems, for example “Organization: url points at a different host (https://blue84apparel.com/zhats)”.

  • 34 internal links, 12 external

    The homepage links to 34 pages on zhats.com and 12 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Individual style. Universal comfort.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://zhats.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://zhats.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://zhats.com/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.

2 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 (265 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 2 pages without an H1

    https://zhats.com/hat-wall and https://zhats.com/privacy-policy have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    https://zhats.com/resort and https://zhats.com/hat-wall have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 9 pages slow to respond

    https://zhats.com/why-zephyr, https://zhats.com/our-process, https://zhats.com/our-hats, https://zhats.com/college, https://zhats.com/resort and https://zhats.com/contact and 3 others took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 10 internal pages checked

    We fetched 10 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 10 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 10 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 10 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9293
  • 6 JavaScript errors while loading

    6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to font at 'https://blue84apparel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/10/Gotham-Bold.woff2' from origin 'https:…”.

  • 1 low-resolution image

    1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    10 of 11 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix79
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • 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 opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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 286 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 286 words of visible text.

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  • 4 calls to action

    The homepage has 4 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Shop Amazon”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo and “750K+ Happy customers”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity (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.

  • 10 cookies set on arrival

    10

    Opening the homepage sets 10 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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Microsoft Clarity
Hosting
GoDaddy

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