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lepickleball.fr website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202627 issues · 88 checks

This review found 27 issues worth fixing on lepickleball.fr, 11 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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

Full-page screenshot of lepickleball.fr (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. lepickleball.fr at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. lepickleball.fr at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. lepickleball.fr at 1.3 s1.3 s
  4. lepickleball.fr at 1.7 s1.7 s
  5. lepickleball.fr at 2.2 s2.2 s
  6. lepickleball.fr at 2.6 s2.6 s
  7. lepickleball.fr at 3.0 s3.0 s
  8. lepickleball.fr at 3.4 s3.4 s

lepickleball.fr does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

3 to fix64
  • Improve image delivery

    15.4 s · 2.9 MB

    2 images could be 2.9 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 15.4 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 64

    64/100

    Your mobile performance score is 64. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    350 ms · 59 KiB

    5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (59 KiB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    250 ms

    4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 250 ms.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    180 ms · 27 KiB

    About 27 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 180 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 38 KiB

    About 38 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 17 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 17 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (loox.io, gelato.tech and Shopify and others), adding 138 KiB and 111 ms of main-thread time.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 54 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 327 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 21.3 s

    21.3 s

    Your largest element takes 21.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 21.3 s

    21.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 21.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 11.1 s

    11.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

2 checks passed
  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 4 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

4 to fix25
  • Page weight: 4.3 MB in 164 requests

    4.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.3 MB in 164 requests on a phone: images 3.1 MB (4), other files 678 KiB (74) and scripts 350 KiB (73). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 2 images over 500 KB

    2 images weigh 3.1 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 2 images far larger than shown

    2.9 MB

    2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example jon-matthews-DqrIPR__wyo-unsplash.jpg at 3,936 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 2.9 MB.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (2.2 MB) is 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.

  • About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.23 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.23 g of CO₂e: 147.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 9696
  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

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

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 1 link without text

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

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 7 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10078
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Title is long (68 characters)

    Your title is 68 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Smash in Style | Culture-Driven Pickleball Gear & Apparel – RETROGRD”.

  • Meta description is long (245 characters)

    Your meta description is 245 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 15 internal links, 1 external

    The homepage links to 15 pages on lepickleball.fr and 1 external page.

5 checks passed
  • Canonical URL set

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

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization.

  • 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://retrogrd.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

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  • 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 (287 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (5 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 2 pages without a meta description

    /collections/all and /policies/privacy-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 2 pages without an H1

    /pages/pickleball-for-clubs-leagues-and-associations-in-the-united-states and /collections/all have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 4 pages slow to respond

    /pages/pickleball-rules-in-the-united-states, /pages/pickleball-for-clubs-leagues-and-associations-in-the-united-states, /collections/all and /products/the-pickle-tee took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 5 internal pages checked

    We fetched 5 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 5 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 5 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

Google 100100
3 checks passed
  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    7 of 7 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • 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.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • No security.txt

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

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (retrogrd.com).

  • Valid certificate (34 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for lepickleball.fr and is valid for another 34 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://lepickleball.fr redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 8 links work

    All 8 links checked from your homepage (7 internal, 1 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    retrogrd.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.

  • DNSSEC is off

    retrogrd.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 2 years old

    2 years

    retrogrd.com was registered in Jul 2024 through Tucows Domains Inc.. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jul 2027

    retrogrd.com is registered until Jul 2027.

Content and conversion

5 to fix50
  • No call to action on the first screen

    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 social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • No analytics detected

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

  • 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.

  • Only about 224 words

    The homepage has only about 224 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

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  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Shop now”.

  • 5 short forms

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

Email authentication

2 to fix60
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be lepickleball.fr is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    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 score: 60/100

    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.

1 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.hostedemail.com ~all”.

Privacy and tracking

  • 6 cookies set on arrival

    6

    Opening the homepage sets 6 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.

  • 5 other companies contacted

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

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 2 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

None of the apps your storefront loads is on the list of apps with a known security problem.

Apps your storefront loads

loox.io · gelato.tech

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

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Hosting
Shopify

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

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