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bigpotato.co.uk website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 20269 issues · 57 checks
This review found 9 issues worth fixing on bigpotato.co.uk, 3 of them high impact, across 57 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 5.3 MB. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. 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
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.9 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 186 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 188 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 199 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 203 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 199 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 198 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 203 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 200 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 201 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 203 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 195 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 192 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 194 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
Speed
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 186 ms to 194 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 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
6 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (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: 194 ms
194 msReal visitors wait 194 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.03
0.03For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (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: 667 ms
667 msReal visitors wait 667 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.3 MB
5.3 MBYour homepage downloads 5.3 MB on a phone, 973 KiB of it images (18%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image far larger than shown
40 KiB1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Group_66_4x-min.png at 1,693 px wide, shown at 385 px. Resized copies would save about 40 KiB.
7 images below the first screen load straight away
7 images further down the page (253 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit
1.51 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.51 g of CO₂e: 181.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
1 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Accessibility
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.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h3 → h5 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
53 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 53 passed and 2 failed. 6 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
118 internal links, 7 external
The homepage links to 118 pages on bigpotato.co.uk and 7 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 154 characters
Your meta description is 154 characters: “Our board games are easy to learn, quick to play and guaranteed to get the party started. Get 10% off your first order …”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Big Potato Games”.
Title: 43 characters
Your title is a healthy 43 characters: “Big Potato Games | 10% Off Your First Order”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://bigpotato.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: Organization, Store and WebSite.
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://bigpotato.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
4 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.
Organization data: 4 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,259 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://bigpotato.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 page without a meta description
https://bigpotato.com/pages/spudley-the-chat-bot-ato has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 49 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
3 JavaScript errors while loading
3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'open')”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
61 of 63 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
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 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.
About 866 words of copy
The homepage carries about 866 words of visible text.
7 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “SHOP ALL” and “SHOP TV GAMES”.
19 calls to action
The homepage has 19 calls to action, for example “Get 10% off when you sign up!”, “Shop Games” and “Join The Potato Club”.
27 short forms
27 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 63 testimonial or review blocks, a star rating and 4 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Clarity.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
8 trackers load before any consent
8Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo and 3 mores (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.
27 cookies set on arrival
27Opening the homepage sets 27 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.
45 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 45 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 bigpotato.co.uk, 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 12 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.
Apps your storefront loads
Essential A B Testing · Okendo · Littledata The Data Layer · Microsoft Clarity · Bazaarvoice Reviews Photos · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Revoq Eu Withdrawal Button · Avada Cookie Bar · Essential Post Purchase Upsell · Freegifts · nerdy-apps.com · bogos.io
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
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager | Microsoft Clarity
- Hosting
- Shopify
Company
- Headquarters
- Leicester
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
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- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
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