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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 4 November 202638 issues · 108 checks
This review found 38 issues worth fixing on gc.com, 13 of them high impact, across 108 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 53.1 MB in 234 requests. 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
70CClosest competitors among SaaS websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 3.1 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 159 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 161 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 163 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 168 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 172 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 180 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 186 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 194 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 197 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 196 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 199 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 203 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 207 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 209 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 210 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 212 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 214 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 215 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 217 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 219 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 219 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 222 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 227 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.5 s
1.0 s
1.6 s
2.1 s
2.6 s
3.1 s
3.6 s
4.1 s
gc.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
1.5 s · 1.0 MBAbout 1.0 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
1.9 s6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.
Mobile performance score: 45
45/100Your mobile performance score is 45. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 4.4 s
A phone's processor spends 4.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
450 ms · 49.4 MB54 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (49.4 MB).
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and website-files.com and others), adding 50.9 MB and 1.8 s of main-thread time.
website-files.com adds 314 ms
314 mswebsite-files.com costs a phone 314 ms of main-thread work and 49.3 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.
Google Tag Manager adds 733 ms
733 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 733 ms of main-thread work and 849 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.
Reduce unused CSS
610 ms · 111 KiBAbout 111 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 610 ms faster on a phone.
Facebook adds 319 ms
319 msFacebook costs a phone 319 ms of main-thread work and 340 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.
18 long tasks on the main thread
18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 235 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Minify CSS
150 ms · 21 KiB21 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
Minify JavaScript
113 KiB113 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Font display
100 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).
Legacy JavaScript
46 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 46 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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: 6 ms
6 msYour server sent the HTML in 6 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.
Largest Contentful Paint: 14.9 s
14.9 sYour largest element takes 14.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “LIVE THE GAME LIKE NEVER BEFORE”.
Time to Interactive: 30.2 s
30.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 30.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.9 s
8.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 821 ms
821 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 821 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user LCP: 3.0 s
3.0 sReal visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 239 ms
239 msReal visitors wait 239 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 40% slower for real visitors
+40%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 159 ms to 227 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 2.8 s
2.8 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.8 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
37 images without width and height
37 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
First Contentful Paint: 2.2 s
2.2 sThe first text or image appears after 2.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+7%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.8 s to 3.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.02
0.02For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.02 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user TTFB: 768 ms
768 msReal visitors wait 768 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 53.1 MB in 234 requests
53.1 MBYour homepage downloads 53.1 MB in 234 requests on a phone: media 48.5 MB (20), scripts 2.8 MB (60) and fonts 1.3 MB (45). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 15.1 g of CO₂ per visit
15.05 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 15.05 g of CO₂e: 1806.2 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
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.
Links look like plain text
1 link inside paragraphs relies on colour alone to stand out.
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 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 80 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 43 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 3 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (29 characters)
Your title is only 29 characters: “GameChanger App | GameChanger”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
Structured data has 1 problem
Structured data found (FAQPage and SoftwareApplication) but with 1 problem, for example “SoftwareApplication: url is not an absolute URL ("/")”.
3 links with vague text
3 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.
58 internal links, 27 external
The homepage links to 58 pages on gc.com and 27 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 155 characters
Your meta description is 155 characters: “GameChanger is the #1-rated youth sports app offering live streaming, free sports team management, and free scorekeepin…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Live the gamelike never before”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://gc.com/.
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://gc.com/sitemap.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.
3 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 (1,107 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (16 KiB, 101 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
9 pages without an H1
/basketball, /softball, /baseball, /soccer, /volleyball and /flag-football and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 34 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.
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.
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
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=343231136&Ver=2&mid=1861fe7d-85fe-43ef-bb86-825633ef5f8e&bo=1&sid=0e0b87c0d8ab11f1b8216ba541fb4e6f&vid=0e0ba790d8ab11f18ffc05b376a9934c&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&l.
2 small tap targets
2 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 third-party cookies
2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
1 JavaScript error while loading
1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
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
No HSTS header
No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.
No X-Content-Type-Options
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.
1 link through redirect chains
1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://teammanager.zendesk.com/.
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.
8 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (gc.com).
Valid certificate (73 days left)
The certificate from Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04 verifies for gc.com and is valid for another 73 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
Content-Security-Policy set
A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
http:// redirects to https
http://gc.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 54 links work
All 54 links checked from your homepage (35 internal, 19 external) answered without errors.
security.txt published
A security.txt file tells researchers how to report a problem with your site.
Domain and trust
4 checks passed
Domain is 31 years old
31 yearsgc.com was registered in Dec 1994 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only awstrust.com, letsencrypt.org, pki.goog and amazon.com to issue certificates for gc.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
DNSSEC is on
gc.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.
Registered until Nov 2027
gc.com is registered until Nov 2027.
Content and conversion
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 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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 1,023 words of copy
The homepage carries about 1,023 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “LEARN MORE →” and “Download for Free”.
13 calls to action
The homepage has 13 calls to action, for example “Learn More →”, “Pricing” and “Download for Free”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 194 testimonial or review blocks, 4 customer or partner logos, a star rating and “750K+ Reviews”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and HubSpot.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 95/100
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: reject
DMARC tells receivers to reject mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:167.89.1.89 ip4:148.163.159.194 ip4:148.163.157.194 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “k2” and “mandrill”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
9 trackers load before any consent
9Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel and 4 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.
24 cookies set on arrival
24Opening the homepage sets 24 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
59 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 59 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner
A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- Webflow
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Hosting
- CloudFront
Hiring
- Hiring
- 8 open roles
- Teams
- Engineering (5), Commercial (1), Data & Analytics (1), Design (1)
- Job board
- ashby
- Careers page
- gc.com/careers (opens in a new tab)
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 38 issues on gc.com, including 21 speed issues, 3 SEO issues and 3 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- 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
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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