grillgrate.com website review

31 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.6 MB).

9 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 1.9 s faster on a phone.

36 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.7 s.

About 444 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.3 s faster on a phone.

About 118 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 59. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and b-cdn.net and others), adding 2.1 MB and 743 ms of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 331 ms of main-thread work and 659 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.

b-cdn.net costs a phone 124 ms of main-thread work and 1,020 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 54 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 250 ms faster on a phone.

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 165 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

17 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

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 visitors wait 4.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 3.6 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 3.2 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Your largest element takes 21.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “SUPERIOR GRILLING AWAITS 20% OFF SITEWIDE SAVE WITH CODE: H…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 21.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.6 s to 3.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 223 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 87 ms to 103 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.5 MB in 148 requests on a phone: images 2.5 MB (33), scripts 1.4 MB (56) and fonts 335 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.27 g of CO₂e: 152.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

5 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.

7 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

5 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

The homepage links to 191 pages on grillgrate.com and 8 external pages.

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.

Your homepage links to 9 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /product-category/outdoor-grillgrates, whose canonical is /product-category/aaa/grillgrates/outdoor-grillgrates. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/find-your-grill-grate has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/find-your-grill-grate has 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 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 73 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://lantern.roeye.com/track.php?fingerprint=056a8b7a-2f93-445a-a415-056ae227455c&referrer=&landingpage=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grillgrate.com%2F&useragent=Mozilla%2F5.0%20(iPhone%3B%20CPU%20iPhone%20OS%.

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

3 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

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

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

grillgrate.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.

grillgrate.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.

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 412 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be grillgrate.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

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.

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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Ads and Microsoft Clarity (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 15 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 21 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.