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pgatour.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202624 issues · 60 checks
This review found 24 issues worth fixing on pgatour.com, 5 of them high impact, across 60 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Google's speed test didn't respond, so speed is not measured here; your full playbook measures it. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
Not scored yet: Google's speed test didn't run in this review. Re-run the review to get a score.
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.6 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 439 ms |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 423 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 388 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 388 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 436 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 446 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 465 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 476 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 471 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 463 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 428 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 423 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 423 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 404 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 423 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 442 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 446 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 428 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 373 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 316 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 278 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 257 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 247 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 245 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 302 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Not measured in this review.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on your site (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Real-user LCP: 2.6 s
2.6 sReal visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 317 ms
317 msReal visitors wait 317 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.12
0.12For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.12 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Largest content (LCP) got 21% slower for real visitors
+21%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
3 checks passed
Real-user FCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 641 ms
641 msReal visitors wait 641 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) got 37% faster for real visitors
-37%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 439 ms to 302 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 5.4 MB
5.4 MBYour homepage downloads 5.4 MB on a phone, 284 KiB of it images (5%). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
1 image below the first screen load straight away
1 image further down the page (20 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
About 1.5 g of CO₂ per visit
1.52 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.52 g of CO₂e: 182.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
2 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
3 tap targets too small
3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
ARIA commands must have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA commands must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (18 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 18 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Contentinfo landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one contentinfo landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
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.
Zoom is disabled
The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (1 element)
Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 72 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 54 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 8 failed. 4 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
154 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 154 pages on pgatour.com and 11 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 160 characters
Your meta description is 160 characters: “The official web site of the PGA TOUR. Providing the only Real-Time Live Scoring for the PGA TOUR, Champions Tour and K…”.
Title: 63 characters
Your title is a healthy 63 characters: “PGATOUR.COM - Official Home of Golf and the FedExCup - PGA TOUR”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.pgatour.com/.
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://www.pgatour.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
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.
3 checks passed
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 (503 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.pgatour.com/llms.txt (9 KiB, 27 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
6 pages without a meta description
https://www.pgatour.com/watch, https://www.pgatour.com/players, https://www.pgatour.com/fantasy-betting, https://www.pgatour.com/dp-world-tour-eligibility-rankings, https://www.pgatour.com/tickets and https://www.pgatour.com/shop have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages without an H1
https://www.pgatour.com/aon-better-decisions and https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 44 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 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 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
56 small tap targets
56 of 85 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: t.setTudeMeta is not a function”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: 2 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
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.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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.
About 419 words of copy
The homepage carries about 419 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Schedule” and “Shop”.
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Schedule”, “Shop” and “Contact”.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.
Privacy and tracking
11 trackers load before any consent
11Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Amplitude, Comscore, Criteo and Google Ads and 6 mores (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.
25 cookies set on arrival
25Opening the homepage sets 25 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).
90 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 90 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
Consent tool: OneTrust
A consent management tool (OneTrust) loads with the page.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at pgatour.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- Framework
- Next.js
- Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Company
- Founded
- 1968
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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