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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202647 issues · 68 checks

This review found 47 issues worth fixing on pokemon.com, 25 of them high impact, across 68 checks. The most urgent: avoid multiple page redirects. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

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  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 pokemon.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. pokemon.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. pokemon.com at 1.0 s1.0 s
  3. pokemon.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  4. pokemon.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  5. pokemon.com at 2.5 s2.5 s
  6. pokemon.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  7. pokemon.com at 3.4 s3.4 s
  8. pokemon.com at 3.9 s3.9 s

Speed

7 to fix29
  • Avoid multiple page redirects

    12.0 s

    The page goes through 3 redirects before it starts loading, costing about 12.0 s. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    7.3 s · 1.6 MB

    About 1.6 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 7.3 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    3.0 s · 610 KiB

    About 610 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.0 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 29

    29/100

    Your mobile performance score is 29 (desktop: 30). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 7.0 s

    A phone's processor spends 7.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Minify JavaScript

    470 ms · 86 KiB

    86 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 372 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Document request latency

    200 ms · 4 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive about 200 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

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  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

9 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Real-user LCP: 4.7 s

    4.7 s

    Real visitors wait 4.7 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 8.4 s

    8.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 8.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 37.9 s

    37.9 s

    Your largest element takes 37.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s.

  • Speed Index: 16.7 s

    16.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 16.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 41.4 s

    41.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 41.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.5 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user TTFB: 910 ms

    910 ms

    Real visitors wait 910 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • 12 images without width and height

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

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  • Real-user INP: 124 ms

    124 ms

    Real visitors wait 124 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.07

    0.07

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.07 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.055

    0.055

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.055, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix33
  • Page weight: 10.5 MB in 115 requests

    10.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 10.5 MB in 115 requests on a phone: images 4.7 MB (40), scripts 3.8 MB (26) and other files 899 KiB (26). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 3.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.99 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.99 g of CO₂e: 358.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

8 to fixGoogle 8650
  • Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation (1 element)

    Documents must have <title> element to aid in navigation: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Frames without titles

    1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

  • <html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)

    <html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 10 buttons without a name

    10 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • 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.

  • No page language

    The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

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  • 5 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 10 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 5 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

13 to fixGoogle 7525
  • Page is set to noindex

    The robots meta tag says “NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”: Google is told not to list this page at all.

  • No page title

    Your page has no <title>, so Google has to invent the blue link in search results.

  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 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 canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • No social preview image

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

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at http://www.pokemon.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • No robots.txt

    There is no robots.txt at pokemon.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

  • Only 0 internal links

    The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • 1 link with vague text

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

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • 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.

  • No llms.txt

    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.

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  • AI answer engines may read the site

    There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 7891
  • No HTML doctype

    The page has no <!DOCTYPE html>, so browsers render it in quirks mode.

  • No character set

    No character set is declared, so some characters can render as gibberish.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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  • No console errors

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

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

6 to fix25
  • 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 calls to action

    We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

  • 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 6 words

    The homepage has only about 6 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

Privacy and tracking

  • 5 cookies set on arrival

    5

    Opening the homepage sets 5 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.

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  • 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).

Security, domain, email and software versions

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