fiddlerselbow.com website review

9 images could be 5.6 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 18.1 s faster on a phone.

39 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4.0 MB).

24 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.8 s.

About 248 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 56 (desktop: 61). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 89 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 460 ms faster on a phone.

4 third-party services load with your homepage (Amazon Web Services, clubessential.com and elfsightcdn.com and others), adding 1.6 MB and 68 ms of main-thread time.

clubessential.com costs a phone 25 ms of main-thread work and 1.3 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.

28 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

Polyfills for old browsers add 9 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 50 ms faster on a phone.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 50 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

20 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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.

Your largest element takes 31.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “A golfer’s paradise & a river runs through it. THE FIDDLER’…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 31.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 6.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.16 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Real visitors wait 1.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The layout shifts by 0.11 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 70 ms to 70 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 8.0 MB in 52 requests on a phone: images 7.1 MB (14), scripts 342 KiB (20) and stylesheets 288 KiB (11). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

3 images weigh 4.9 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example getImage.gif at 1,903 px wide, shown at 380 px. Resized copies would save about 2.8 MB.

7 images (6.1 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.

3 images further down the page (2.0 MB) 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 2.26 g of CO₂e: 270.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 element has a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

Your meta description is only 27 characters: “Fiddlers Elbow Country Club”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

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 at https://www.fiddlerselbow.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

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

The homepage links to 25 pages on fiddlerselbow.com and 3 external pages.

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.

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.

/history, /golf, /golf/courses, /golf/programming, /golf/academy and /membership and 7 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/history, /golf/courses, /golf/academy, /news-and-awards, /about/staff and /about/trustees and 2 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/about/trustees and /contact 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.

We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

No viewport meta tag, so phones render the desktop layout zoomed out.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

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

HSTS is set, but max-age is 182 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

3 links go through two or more redirects, for example https://www.fiddlerselbow.com/default.aspx?p=TrackHyperlink&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fFiddlers-Elbow-Country-Club-111669335537987%2ftimeline%2f&ssid=140207292703&fid=14272126030.

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.

fiddlerselbow.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.

fiddlerselbow.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.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

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.

Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

The homepage has only about 158 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

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

fiddlerselbow.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

fiddlerselbow.com has no MX record, so it receives no email. SPF -all and DMARC reject still matter: they stop others sending mail as you.

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.

Opening the homepage sets 9 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 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.