midsouthmaze.com website review

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 700 ms.

About 57 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Shopify costs a phone 120 ms of main-thread work and 352 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.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Google CDN and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 578 KiB and 335 ms of main-thread time.

About 130 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 130 ms faster on a phone.

2 images could be 64 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 61 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (34 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 10 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.

3 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

The page becomes fully interactive after 7.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 2.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “7777 Walnut Grove Rd. Memphis, TN 38120 THANK YOU FOR A WON…”.

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

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 103 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 1.5 s to 1.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 image further down the page (20 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.50 g of CO₂e: 59.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

Your title is only 18 characters: “The Mid-South Maze”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is 272 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 31 pages on midsouthmaze.com and 5 external pages.

https://midsouthmaze.com/pages/contact-us, https://midsouthmaze.com/policies/terms-of-service and https://midsouthmaze.com/policies/refund-policy have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://midsouthmaze.com/pages/party, https://midsouthmaze.com/pages/fieldtrip, https://midsouthmaze.com/pages/haunted-maze, https://midsouthmaze.com/pages/merch and https://midsouthmaze.com/pages/contact-us have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Synchronous `XMLHttpRequest` on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to…”).

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.

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.

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.

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 295 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Pinterest Tag (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 13 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 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.