packers.com website review

39 images could be 5.3 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 23.9 s faster on a phone.

95 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (2.3 MB).

About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.9 s faster on a phone.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 2.5 s of main-thread work and 1.9 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.

7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.6 s.

About 142 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 14.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 7.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

Your mobile performance score is 20 (desktop: 34). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

The page has 3,441 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, Integral Ad Science and Optanon and others), adding 4.2 MB and 4.1 s of main-thread time.

Integral Ad Science costs a phone 703 ms of main-thread work and 316 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 33 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 350 ms faster on a phone.

Optanon costs a phone 276 ms of main-thread work and 277 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 274 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

usestoryteller.com costs a phone 109 ms of main-thread work and 1,015 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.

nfltags.com costs a phone 139 ms of main-thread work and 371 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.

7 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

42 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

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.

Your largest element takes 49.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “By clicking any of the buttons in this banner, or by clicki…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 50.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 6.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 14.0 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.

Real visitors wait 3.0 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.17 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

The layout shifts by 0.179 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 96 ms to 100 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 2.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 11.5 MB in 357 requests on a phone: images 6.8 MB (101), scripts 3.1 MB (113) and fonts 733 KiB (25). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

3 images weigh 3.7 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example gxehhenhajriavcdevti at 758 px wide, shown at 100 px. Resized copies would save about 828 KiB.

6 images (3.8 MB) are 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.

5 images further down the page (983 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.27 g of CO₂e: 391.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

1 image has 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.

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

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 11 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 4 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (68 elements).

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

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

The homepage links to 131 pages on packers.com and 68 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 https://www.packers.com/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.

https://www.packers.com/rivalries and https://www.packers.com/2027-frozen-tundra-faceoff have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your homepage links to 9 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://www.packers.com/news/index, whose canonical is https://www.packers.com/news. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

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

13 of 64 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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

6 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “🚀 Failed to execute data element module core/src/lib/dataElements/customCode.js for data element identityProvider (Loc…”.

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

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.

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 1,471 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Comscore and Google Ads (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 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 37 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.