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commanders.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 25 October 202652 issues · 111 checks
This review found 52 issues worth fixing on commanders.com, 21 of them high impact, across 111 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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
59FClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.5 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 106 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 107 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 95 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 99 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 111 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 103 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 105 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 104 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 102 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 98 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 94 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
Use efficient cache lifetimes
6.6 s · 4.1 MB186 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4.1 MB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.9 s · 1.5 MBAbout 1.5 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.9 s faster on a phone.
Reduce unused CSS
1.2 s · 246 KiBAbout 246 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.3 s6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.
Mobile performance score: 8
8/100Your mobile performance score is 8 (desktop: 46). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 7.4 s
A phone's processor spends 7.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.2 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
3,155 HTML elements
The page has 3,155 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, formstack.com and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 3.4 MB and 3.1 s of main-thread time.
Improve image delivery
300 ms · 1.1 MB7 images could be 1.1 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
Google/Doubleclick Ads adds 917 ms
917 msGoogle/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 917 ms of main-thread work and 1.0 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.
formstack.com adds 765 ms
765 msformstack.com costs a phone 765 ms of main-thread work and 928 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.
20 long tasks on the main thread
20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 764 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
350 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 350 ms).
Google Tag Manager adds 295 ms
295 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 295 ms of main-thread work and 449 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.
redskins.com adds 288 ms
288 msredskins.com costs a phone 288 ms of main-thread work and 1 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.
Adobe Tag Manager adds 271 ms
271 msAdobe Tag Manager costs a phone 271 ms of main-thread work and 117 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 · 33 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Duplicated JavaScript
26 KiB26 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
Minify JavaScript
12 KiB12 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Phones get a much slower page than desktops
Desktop scores 46 but mobile only 8. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 18 ms
18 msYour server sent the HTML in 18 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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 CLS: 0.31
0.31For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.31 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Largest Contentful Paint: 15.7 s
15.7 sYour largest element takes 15.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “By clicking any of the buttons in this banner, or by clicki…”.
Time to Interactive: 45.6 s
45.6 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 45.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 12.8 s
12.8 sVisually, the page fills in at 12.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 5.9 s
5.9 sThe first text or image appears after 5.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.567
0.567The layout shifts by 0.567 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.
Total Blocking Time: 1.4 s
1.4 sScripts block taps and scrolling for 1.4 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user LCP: 2.6 s
2.6 sReal visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user FCP: 2.3 s
2.3 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
19 images without width and height
19 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.7 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user INP: 129 ms
129 msReal visitors wait 129 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user TTFB: 434 ms
434 msReal visitors wait 434 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 11% faster for real visitors
-11%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 106 ms to 94 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 8.8 MB in 464 requests
8.8 MBYour homepage downloads 8.8 MB in 464 requests on a phone: scripts 3.4 MB (107), images 3.2 MB (205) and fonts 1.4 MB (33). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
3 images far larger than shown
738 KiB3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example at84z8atv0em7gcao6m6 at 1,920 px wide, shown at 372 px. Resized copies would save about 738 KiB.
About 2.5 g of CO₂ per visit
2.48 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.48 g of CO₂e: 298.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
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.
Accessibility
2 tap targets too small
2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (2 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 links without text
2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (2 elements)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Table header text should not be empty (1 element)
Table header text should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Tables should not have the same summary and caption (1 element)
Tables should not have the same summary and caption: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (57 elements).
<td> elements in a large <table> do not have table headers.
<td> elements in a large <table> do not have table headers. (1 element).
1 checks passed
52 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 59 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 7 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No meta description
No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.
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.
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.
107 internal links, 70 external
The homepage links to 107 pages on commanders.com and 70 external pages.
4 checks passed
Title: 42 characters
Your title is a healthy 42 characters: “Official Site of the Washington Commanders”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.commanders.com/.
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://www.commanders.com/sitemap-index.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.
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 (1,215 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
7 links to non-canonical URLs
Your homepage links to 7 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /tickets/index, whose canonical is /tickets. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 92 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.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
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
7 small tap targets
7 of 19 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
4 third-party cookies
4 third-party cookies are 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 “🚀 Failed to execute data element module core/src/lib/dataElements/customCode.js for data element identityProvider (Loc…”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
http:// does not redirect
http://commanders.com does not redirect to https, so some visitors land on the insecure version.
1 broken external link
1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabout.bankofamerica.com%2Fen%2Fmaking-an-impact%2Fsports%3Fcampaign%3Dsports-nfl&data=05%7C02%7Ctommy.kollias%40commanders.com%7C2ef864f699514e9c616a08de8aa10cc3%7Caf43aa709ee94976b3b1fff52e076879%7C0%7C0%7C639100621509819516%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=S8q6WxXMFWkfEosYZ0%2BQ11gUkxAehWYmsxtcQao6JXc%3D&reserved=0 (500).
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
No clickjacking protection
Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.
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.
Deprecated X-XSS-Protection
X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
4 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (commanders.com).
Valid certificate (86 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for commanders.com and is valid for another 86 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
commanders.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
commanders.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 31 years old
31 yearscommanders.com was registered in Feb 1995 through MarkMonitor Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until Feb 2027
commanders.com is registered until Feb 2027.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 2 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
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 1,100 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,100 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “PRO SHOP” and “BUY TICKETS”.
10 calls to action
The homepage has 10 calls to action, for example “SCHEDULE”, “PRO SHOP” and “BUY TICKETS”.
1 short form
A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.
Email authentication
DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)
DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be commanders.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.
Email authentication score: 70/100
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 in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 a mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spfa.cpmails.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.knowbe…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “mandrill”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
2 trackers load before any consent
2Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
13 cookies set on arrival
13Opening the homepage sets 13 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
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.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Company
- Founded
- 1932
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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