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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 2 November 202637 issues · 101 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on achallenge.com, 6 of them high impact, across 101 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.6 s1.4 sJun 13Oct 241.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Jun 13, 20261.5 s
Jun 27, 20261.5 s
Jul 4, 20261.6 s
Jul 11, 20261.6 s
Jul 18, 20261.5 s
Jul 25, 20261.5 s
Aug 1, 20261.4 s
Aug 8, 20261.4 s
Aug 15, 20261.4 s
Aug 22, 20261.4 s
Aug 29, 20261.4 s
Sep 5, 20261.4 s
Sep 12, 20261.5 s
Sep 19, 20261.5 s
Sep 26, 20261.5 s
Oct 3, 20261.6 s
Oct 10, 20261.6 s
Oct 17, 20261.5 s
Oct 24, 20261.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
97 ms77 msJul 4Sep 2695 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Jul 4, 202693 ms
Jul 11, 202689 ms
Jul 18, 202679 ms
Jul 25, 202681 ms
Aug 1, 202681 ms
Aug 8, 202686 ms
Aug 15, 202688 ms
Aug 22, 202688 ms
Aug 29, 202688 ms
Sep 5, 202689 ms
Sep 12, 202691 ms
Sep 19, 202690 ms
Sep 26, 202695 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 achallenge.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. achallenge.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. achallenge.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. achallenge.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. achallenge.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. achallenge.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. achallenge.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. achallenge.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. achallenge.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

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

Speed

10 to fix87
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.4 s

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

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 2.2 MB

    30 images could be 2.2 MB 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.

  • Mobile performance score: 87

    87/100

    Your mobile performance score is 87. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (Bigcommerce, Facebook and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 3.8 MB and 497 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    450 ms · 274 KiB

    About 274 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    619 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (619 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 71 KiB

    About 71 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.

  • Bigcommerce adds 178 ms

    178 ms

    Bigcommerce costs a phone 178 ms of main-thread work and 3.2 MB 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.

  • 1,912 HTML elements

    The page has 1,912 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 145 ms

    145 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 145 ms of main-thread work and 297 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 23 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 5 long tasks on the main thread

    5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 102 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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.

  • Minify JavaScript

    5 KiB

    5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 checks passed
  • Main-thread work: 1.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 512 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 7 ms

    7 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 7 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

3 to fix85
  • Time to Interactive: 8.4 s

    8.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 8.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.8 s

    3.8 s

    Your largest element takes 3.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Custom Logo Ball On Field”.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • 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 93 ms to 95 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.5 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • 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.

4 checks passed
  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Speed Index: 2.7 s

    2.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 2.7 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • Total Blocking Time: 72 ms

    72 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 72 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

5 to fix57
  • Page weight: 3.8 MB in 74 requests

    3.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.8 MB in 74 requests on a phone: images 2.8 MB (44), scripts 753 KiB (13) and fonts 107 KiB (3). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 20 images below the first screen load straight away

    20 images further down the page (1.9 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    12x6-5__22194.jpg 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).

  • 10 images in older formats

    10 images (1.1 MB) 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.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    227 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example tasco-logo.jpg at 830 px wide, shown at 175 px. Resized copies would save about 227 KiB.

  • About 1.1 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.08 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.08 g of CO₂e: 130.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 9392
  • 32 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (2 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • ARIA commands must have an accessible name (1 element)

    ARIA commands must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (89 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 89 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.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 25 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 48 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: 48 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

5 to fixGoogle 10079
  • 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 short (21 characters)

    Your meta description is only 21 characters: “[email protected]”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://achallenge.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 210 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 210 pages on achallenge.com and 5 external pages.

3 checks passed
  • Title: 56 characters

    Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “Soccer Balls, Equipment and Apparel | American Challenge”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /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 (747 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 15 pages without a meta description

    /clubs, /clubs/alamo-heights-fsh-fire, /clubs/alamo-heights-fsh-fire/coaches, /clubs/alamo-heights-fsh-fire/keepers, /clubs/alamo-heights-fsh-fire/players and /clubs/alamo-heights-fsh-fire/spirit-wear and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    /clubs/alamo-heights-fsh-fire/spirit-wear took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 100 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • 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.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 12 small tap targets

    12 of 45 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix93
  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 0 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.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

6 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (15 days left)

    The certificate from DigiCert, Inc. · Encryption Everywhere G3 TLS ECC P384 SHA384 2023 CA1 verifies for achallenge.com and is valid for another 15 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://achallenge.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 43 links work

    All 43 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 3 external) answered without errors; 1 did not answer within 5 s.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    achallenge.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

    achallenge.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 30 years old

    30 years

    achallenge.com was registered in Aug 1996 through DomainSpot LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Aug 2027

    achallenge.com is registered until Aug 2027.

Content and conversion

2 to fix81
  • No social proof

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

  • 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 map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 435 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 435 words of visible text.

6 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “TRAINING GEAR CLICK TO ORDER” and “CUSTOM LOGO BALLS CLICK TO ORDER”.

  • 13 calls to action

    The homepage has 13 calls to action, for example “Register”, “SHOP ALL” and “Request A Catalog”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel.

  • Direct contact links

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

  • Phone number on the homepage

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

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be achallenge.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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.

2 checks passed
  • 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 “mail”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and 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.

  • 15 cookies set on arrival

    15

    Opening 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.

  • 10 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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