gilbert-netball.com website review

hcaptcha.com costs a phone 2.5 s of main-thread work and 3.4 MB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

Your mobile performance score is 48. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

A phone's processor spends 8.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.5 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 5,988 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (hcaptcha.com, Akamai and Shopify and others), adding 4.3 MB and 2.9 s of main-thread time.

About 826 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 400 ms.

16 images could be 350 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 268 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Shopify costs a phone 87 ms of main-thread work and 362 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.

15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (211 KiB).

About 35 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 42 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

5 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

The page becomes fully interactive after 37.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 5.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 104 ms to 162 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.2 s to 1.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.9 MB in 369 requests on a phone: scripts 3.0 MB (119), images 1.4 MB (80) and HTML 1.4 MB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

Untitled_design_83.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.95 g of CO₂e: 233.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

12 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

1 tap target is too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Banner landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

25 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

10 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 273 pages on gilbert-netball.com and 0 external pages.

https://www.gilbert-netball.com/apps/wishlist, https://www.gilbert-netball.com/collections/netballs-accessories and https://www.gilbert-netball.com/collections/netball-super-league use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

https://www.gilbert-netball.com/apps/wishlist, https://www.gilbert-netball.com/collections/new-season, https://www.gilbert-netball.com/collections/all-netballs, https://www.gilbert-netball.com/collections/match-netballs, https://www.gilbert-netball.com/collections/training-balls and https://www.gilbert-netball.com/collections/players-balls and 9 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 96 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

24 of 53 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Instafeed error: 503 ”.

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.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. 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.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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

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

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

The homepage carries about 672 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel (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.

Opening the homepage sets 20 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (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 42 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.