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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 November 202616 issues · 59 checks

This review found 16 issues worth fixing on currentbackyard.com, 4 of them high impact, across 59 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. 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.

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
3.6 s2.2 sMay 23Nov 73.4 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.6 s
May 30, 20262.4 s
Jun 6, 20262.5 s
Jun 13, 20262.4 s
Jun 20, 20262.4 s
Jun 27, 20262.4 s
Jul 4, 20262.5 s
Jul 11, 20262.5 s
Jul 18, 20262.5 s
Jul 25, 20262.6 s
Aug 1, 20262.5 s
Aug 8, 20262.5 s
Aug 15, 20262.6 s
Aug 22, 20262.7 s
Aug 29, 20262.6 s
Sep 5, 20262.6 s
Sep 12, 20262.5 s
Sep 19, 20262.5 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.4 s
Oct 17, 20262.5 s
Oct 24, 20263.0 s
Oct 31, 20263.3 s
Nov 7, 20263.4 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
184 ms133 msMay 23Nov 7178 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026143 ms
May 30, 2026141 ms
Jun 6, 2026144 ms
Jun 13, 2026139 ms
Jun 20, 2026139 ms
Jun 27, 2026139 ms
Jul 4, 2026146 ms
Jul 11, 2026152 ms
Jul 18, 2026153 ms
Jul 25, 2026154 ms
Aug 1, 2026153 ms
Aug 8, 2026153 ms
Aug 15, 2026159 ms
Aug 22, 2026166 ms
Aug 29, 2026164 ms
Sep 5, 2026165 ms
Sep 12, 2026163 ms
Sep 19, 2026162 ms
Sep 26, 2026160 ms
Oct 3, 2026160 ms
Oct 10, 2026162 ms
Oct 17, 2026163 ms
Oct 24, 2026170 ms
Oct 31, 2026172 ms
Nov 7, 2026178 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

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Speed

Not measured in this review.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix33

  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Real-user LCP: 3.4 s

    3.4 s

    Real visitors wait 3.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.21

    0.21

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.21 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Tap response (INP) got 23% slower for real visitors

    +23%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 143 ms to 178 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 34% slower for real visitors

    +34%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 3.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

3 checks passed

  • Real-user INP: 178 ms

    178 ms

    Real visitors wait 178 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 569 ms

    569 ms

    Real visitors wait 569 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70

  • Page weight: 4.3 MB

    4.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.3 MB on a phone, 532 KiB of it images (12%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.21 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.21 g of CO₂e: 145.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 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.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

2 to fix96

  • 2 images without alt text

    2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

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

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed

  • 35 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 36 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 35 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

100

  • 43 internal links, 5 external

    The homepage links to 43 pages on currentbackyard.com and 5 external pages.

8 checks passed

  • Meta description: 130 characters

    Your meta description is 130 characters: “Current® electric appliances bring precision control and smart cooking to your backyard, patio, or kitchen. No open fla…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “COOK WITH CONFIDENCE.HOLIDAY WITH EASE.”.

  • Title: 53 characters

    Your title is a healthy 53 characters: “Current® | Electric Grill, Griddle, Pizza Oven & More”.

  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization 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://currentbackyard.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details; logo would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (832 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://currentbackyard.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90

  • 4 pages without a meta description

    https://currentbackyard.com/pages/recipes, https://currentbackyard.com/pages/faqs, https://currentbackyard.com/pages/our-story and https://currentbackyard.com/pages/alton-brown-partnership have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://currentbackyard.com/pages/community-solutions has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 pages with very little text

    https://currentbackyard.com/pages/recipes and https://currentbackyard.com/pages/product-registration have 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 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 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.

  • 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 to fix71

  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=151008996&Ver=2&mid=cab718f0-0eb6-4277-9726-7fe1b9423254&bo=1&sid=87f9b460ddc311f18c7fcdb59a150c30&vid=87fa0010ddc311f18e7241be5681a304&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&l.

  • 8 small tap targets

    8 of 23 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED”.

1 checks passed

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix90

  • 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 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 map or directions link

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

  • About 970 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 970 words of visible text.

8 checks passed

  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Bundle & Save | Shop Bundles” and “SHOP GRILLS”.

  • 14 calls to action

    The homepage has 14 calls to action, for example “Bundle & Save | Shop Bundles”, “Shop” and “Shop Grills”.

  • 5 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 47 testimonial or review blocks, a star rating and “over 1,300 reviews”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 1 email link.

  • Opening hours shown

    Your opening hours are on the homepage.

  • 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

1 to fix

  • 10 trackers load before any consent

    10

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo and 5 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.

  • 37 cookies set on arrival

    37

    Opening the homepage sets 37 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.

  • 53 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 53 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 currentbackyard.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 5 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Yotpo Product Reviews · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Contentsquare Analytics · Arrivesby · rebuyengine.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

E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Hiring

Hiring
7 open roles
Teams
Technology (2), Strategy (1)
Job board
greenhouse
Careers page
boards.greenhouse.io/current (opens in a new tab)

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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