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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202647 issues · 95 checks
This review found 47 issues worth fixing on zpacks.com, 13 of them high impact, across 95 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
77C- #52,486 of 93,751 reviewed websitesbeats 39%
- #32,250 of 50,160 online storesbeats 31%
- #30,533 of 45,305 Shopify storesbeats 28%
Closest competitors among Shopify stores
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 92 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 93 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 87 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 85 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
3.8 s
7.7 s
11.5 s
15.4 s
19.2 s
23.1 s
26.9 s
30.7 s
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.4 s15 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.4 s.
Mobile performance score: 40
40/100Your mobile performance score is 40. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 6.2 s
A phone's processor spends 6.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.9 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,433 HTML elements
The page has 3,433 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Reduce unused JavaScript
600 ms · 1.2 MBAbout 1.2 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (ZenDesk, Google Tag Manager and Affirm and others), adding 1.8 MB and 1.6 s of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 917 KiB17 images could be 917 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
350 ms · 498 KiB34 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (498 KiB).
ZenDesk adds 440 ms
440 msZenDesk costs a phone 440 ms of main-thread work and 478 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 · 185 KiBAbout 185 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 404 ms
404 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 404 ms of main-thread work and 468 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.
Google CDN adds 164 ms
164 msGoogle CDN costs a phone 164 ms of main-thread work and 380 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.
19 long tasks on the main thread
19 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 211 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
65 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 65 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
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
4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
1 checks passed
Server response: 11 ms
11 msYour server sent the HTML in 11 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Speed Index: 29.6 s
29.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 29.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Time to Interactive: 28.8 s
28.8 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 28.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest Contentful Paint: 8.7 s
8.7 sYour largest element takes 8.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.
Total Blocking Time: 1.0 s
1.0 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.0 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.5 s
2.5 sThe first text or image appears after 2.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
11 images without width and height
11 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 92 ms to 85 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 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: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 76 ms
76 msReal visitors wait 76 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: 396 ms
396 msReal visitors wait 396 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.004
0.004The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.004, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 10.3 MB in 489 requests
10.3 MBYour homepage downloads 10.3 MB in 489 requests on a phone: images 5.6 MB (60), scripts 2.7 MB (103) and other files 1.5 MB (296). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
3 images in older formats
3 images (913 KiB) are 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.
3 images below the first screen load straight away
3 images further down the page (913 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
2 images far larger than shown
132 KiB2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example MensVerticeRainJacket-01_600x.webp at 600 px wide, shown at 182 px. Resized copies would save about 132 KiB.
About 2.9 g of CO₂ per visit
2.91 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.91 g of CO₂e: 349.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Orphan list items
Some list items are not inside a list.
3 tap targets too small
3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
7 images without alt text
7 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (45 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 45 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.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
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.
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.
38 form fields without a label
38 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
15 links without text
15 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Headings should not be empty (1 element)
Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h2 → h5, h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
44 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 10 failed. 2 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.
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 (230 characters)
Your meta description is 230 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
4 links with vague text
4 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
113 internal links, 33 external
The homepage links to 113 pages on zpacks.com and 33 external pages.
5 checks passed
Title: 37 characters
Your title is a healthy 37 characters: “Zpacks | Level Up Your Next Adventure”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://zpacks.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://zpacks.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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 (8,830 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://zpacks.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
4 pages without a meta description
https://zpacks.com/collections/all, https://zpacks.com/blogs/adventures, https://zpacks.com/blogs/news and https://zpacks.com/pages/zpacks-rewards have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
4 pages without an H1
https://zpacks.com/blogs/adventures, https://zpacks.com/blogs/news, https://zpacks.com/blogs/no-header/giving-back and https://zpacks.com/pages/zpacks-rewards have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
https://zpacks.com/pages/zpacks-rewards has 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.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 63 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
5 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).
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 5 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
28 small tap targets
28 of 69 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 (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).
1 third-party cookie
1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
6 JavaScript errors while loading
6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “gtag is not defined”.
4 distorted images
4 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.
1 low-resolution image
1 image is served at too low a resolution for sharp phone screens.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 543 words of copy
The homepage carries about 543 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: “SHOP GEAR” and “CONTACT”.
24 calls to action
The homepage has 24 calls to action, for example “shop”, “Shop Gear” and “Contact”.
11 short forms
11 short forms (5 fields at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 3 testimonial or review blocks, 1 customer or partner logo, a star rating and 9 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Hotjar.
Privacy and tracking
6 trackers load before any consent
6Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Criteo, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and Klaviyo and 1 more (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.
15 cookies set on arrival
15Opening the homepage sets 15 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.
62 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 62 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 zpacks.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 16 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Pclb2n5l9 Opensend · Attentive · Instafeed · Accessibility Spark · Redo · Product Ads By Criteo · Quizify · Apo Product Options · mageworx.com · arhamcommerce.com · nfcube.com · attn.tv · getredo.com · popfly.com · kxcdn.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
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager | Hotjar
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- West Melbourne
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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