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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 10 November 202637 issues · 93 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on pooltables.com, 18 of them high impact, across 93 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.4 s2.0 sMay 23Nov 72.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20262.0 s
May 30, 20262.1 s
Jun 6, 20262.1 s
Jun 13, 20262.1 s
Jun 20, 20262.1 s
Jun 27, 20262.1 s
Jul 4, 20262.1 s
Jul 11, 20262.1 s
Jul 18, 20262.1 s
Jul 25, 20262.1 s
Aug 1, 20262.1 s
Aug 8, 20262.2 s
Aug 15, 20262.2 s
Aug 22, 20262.2 s
Aug 29, 20262.2 s
Sep 5, 20262.3 s
Sep 12, 20262.3 s
Sep 19, 20262.3 s
Sep 26, 20262.3 s
Oct 3, 20262.3 s
Oct 10, 20262.3 s
Oct 17, 20262.4 s
Oct 24, 20262.4 s
Oct 31, 20262.3 s
Nov 7, 20262.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
151 ms107 msMay 23Nov 7129 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 2026112 ms
May 30, 2026116 ms
Jun 6, 2026117 ms
Jun 13, 2026120 ms
Jun 20, 2026121 ms
Jun 27, 2026121 ms
Jul 4, 2026121 ms
Jul 11, 2026120 ms
Jul 18, 2026119 ms
Jul 25, 2026119 ms
Aug 1, 2026121 ms
Aug 8, 2026124 ms
Aug 15, 2026129 ms
Aug 22, 2026129 ms
Aug 29, 2026137 ms
Sep 5, 2026142 ms
Sep 12, 2026146 ms
Sep 19, 2026145 ms
Sep 26, 2026141 ms
Oct 3, 2026137 ms
Oct 10, 2026129 ms
Oct 17, 2026130 ms
Oct 24, 2026131 ms
Oct 31, 2026132 ms
Nov 7, 2026129 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

Full-page screenshot of pooltables.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. pooltables.com at 0.5 s0.5 s
  2. pooltables.com at 0.9 s0.9 s
  3. pooltables.com at 1.4 s1.4 s
  4. pooltables.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  5. pooltables.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  6. pooltables.com at 2.8 s2.8 s
  7. pooltables.com at 3.3 s3.3 s
  8. pooltables.com at 3.8 s3.8 s

Speed

10 to fix48
  • Render-blocking requests

    1.6 s

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 48

    48/100

    Your mobile performance score is 48. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 8.3 s

    A phone's processor spends 8.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, PayPal and Klaviyo and others), adding 1.2 MB and 900 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    750 ms · 171 KiB

    About 171 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    515 KiB

    About 515 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 455 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 286 ms

    286 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 286 ms of main-thread work and 364 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.

  • Klaviyo adds 184 ms

    184 ms

    Klaviyo costs a phone 184 ms of main-thread work and 312 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.

  • 1,558 HTML elements

    The page has 1,558 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 130 KiB

    7 images could be 130 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    244 KiB

    19 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (244 KiB).

  • Minify CSS

    150 ms · 11 KiB

    11 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    56 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 56 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Font display

    50 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Minify JavaScript

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 12 ms

    12 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 12 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix100
  • Speed Index: 14.0 s

    14.0 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 14.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 7.7 s

    7.7 s

    Your largest element takes 7.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 17.9 s

    17.9 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 17.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 678 ms

    678 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 678 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 14% slower for real visitors

    +14%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 112 ms to 129 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 2.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

8 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 126 ms

    126 ms

    Real visitors wait 126 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.03

    0.03

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 700 ms

    700 ms

    Real visitors wait 700 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.7 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.04

    0.04

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.04, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

2 to fix64
  • Page weight: 4.3 MB in 226 requests

    4.3 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.3 MB in 226 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (79), fonts 1,015 KiB (14) and images 905 KiB (20). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded

    Plank_and_Hide_10_Percent_Mobile_Optimized.webp is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (205 KiB) 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.

  • About 1.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.22 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.22 g of CO₂e: 146.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 checks passed
  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

11 to fixGoogle 6684
  • Invalid ARIA attributes

    5 elements use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

  • 2 buttons without a name

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

  • 5 tap targets too small

    5 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • 2 text elements with low contrast

    2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (1 element)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Malformed lists

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

  • Orphan list items

    Some list items are not inside a list.

  • 2 images without alt text

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (3 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 10 links without text

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

  • Headings should not be empty (2 elements)

    Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed
  • 49 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 60 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 49 passed and 11 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 8584
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: logo is not an absolute URL ("//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0644/5685/1685/files/Billar…”.

  • 2 links with vague text

    2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

  • 205 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 205 pages on pooltables.com and 6 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 155 characters

    Your meta description is 155 characters: “Shop high-quality pool tables, shuffleboard, ping pong tables, and bar furniture at Pooltables.com. Discover luxury gam…”.

  • Title: 60 characters

    Your title is a healthy 60 characters: “The Largest Independent Pool Table Retailer | Pooltables.com”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.pooltables.com/.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • 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.pooltables.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
4 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.

  • Organization data: 5 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and description; contact details would complete it.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,318 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://www.pooltables.com/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 7 pages without a meta description

    https://www.pooltables.com/collections/outdoor-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/modern-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/rustic-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/spencer-marston-pool-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/brunswick-pool-tables and https://www.pooltables.com/collections/american-heritage-pool-tables and 1 other have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 6 pages without an H1

    https://www.pooltables.com/collections/standard-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/dining-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/classic-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/modern-tables, https://www.pooltables.com/collections/7-foot-pool-tables and https://www.pooltables.com/collections/brunswick-pool-tables have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page with very little text

    https://www.pooltables.com/collections/brunswick-pool-tables has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 84 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

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 11 small tap targets

    11 of 48 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Error initializing managers Error: Endpoint key not set”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix81
  • 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.

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    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.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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 379 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 379 words of visible text.

  • Urgency cues

    The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).

6 checks passed
  • 7 calls to action

    The homepage has 7 calls to action, for example “Learn More”, “Contact Us” and “DOWNLOAD THE BUYERS GUIDE”.

  • 3 short forms

    3 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 4 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 6 trackers load before any consent

    6

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 1 more (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.

  • 19 cookies set on arrival

    19

    Opening the homepage sets 19 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.

  • 38 other companies contacted

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

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 pooltables.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 8 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Searchpie Seo Speed · Klaviyo Email Marketing Sms · Impact Com · Inbox · Accessibly App · cloudfront.net · trafficmanager.net · luckyorange.com

Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Company

Headquarters
Norcross

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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