backyarddiscovery.com website review

22 images could be 2.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.8 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 74. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 500 ms.

Klaviyo costs a phone 102 ms of main-thread work and 309 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.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Shopify and IPONWEB and others), adding 599 KiB and 302 ms of main-thread time.

About 106 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 180 ms faster on a phone.

13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (106 KiB).

3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 77 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 19 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 30 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 38 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

Your largest element takes 9.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 13.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 128 ms to 195 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Visually, the page fills in at 3.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 4.1 MB in 202 requests on a phone: images 2.4 MB (28), scripts 764 KiB (75) and other files 736 KiB (86). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images (198 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.

4 images further down the page (109 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.16 g of CO₂e: 139.0 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail 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: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Your title is 68 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Backyard Discovery | Swing Sets, Pergolas, Outdoor Kitchens & Saunas”.

The homepage links to 147 pages on backyarddiscovery.com and 12 external pages.

/pages/pro has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/pages/pro has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 44 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.backyarddiscovery.com/account.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

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

backyarddiscovery.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.

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

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

The homepage carries about 627 words of visible text.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Klaviyo 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.

Opening the homepage sets 8 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 22 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.