maxpreps.com website review

A phone's processor spends 10.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 5.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Your mobile performance score is 43 (desktop: 61). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (maxpreps.io, ex.co and Rubicon Project and others), adding 2.6 MB and 2.6 s of main-thread time.

152 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (952 KiB).

maxpreps.io costs a phone 903 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 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.

About 677 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

ex.co costs a phone 341 ms of main-thread work and 392 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.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 345 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Rubicon Project costs a phone 325 ms of main-thread work and 151 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.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 264 ms of main-thread work and 398 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 45 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

1 image could be 5 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

About 20 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

13 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 50.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 10.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.7 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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 “High School Sports”.

Real visitors wait 228 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 142 ms to 147 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.0 MB in 1,211 requests on a phone: scripts 2.8 MB (160), other files 549 KiB (490) and images 311 KiB (392). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.13 g of CO₂e: 135.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 33 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.

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.

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

Your meta description is 239 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

The homepage links to 307 pages on maxpreps.com and 27 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.

Your homepage links to 2 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /list/schedules_scores_redirect.aspx, whose canonical is /ny/dma/new-york/football/scores?dmaid=5986fd29-134e-433c-915b-8a8c8d15f9a1. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/photography/browse-galleries, /video/channel/football and /baseball have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 185 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

35 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

9 of 36 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 “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://01.cdn.mediatradecraft.com/maxpreps/main/main.css' from origin 'https://www.maxpre…”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

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 452 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Google Ads and The Trade Desk (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 8 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 38 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.