ranker.com website review

8 third-party services load with your homepage (adthrive.com, Google Tag Manager and Google/Doubleclick Ads and others), adding 2.1 MB and 950 ms of main-thread time.

About 1.1 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

Your mobile performance score is 71 (desktop: 73). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 850 ms.

23 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (830 KiB).

adthrive.com costs a phone 305 ms of main-thread work and 745 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.

A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 258 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 196 ms of main-thread work and 588 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 212 ms of main-thread work and 309 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.

24 images could be 237 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 67 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

About 14 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

The page becomes fully interactive after 23.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Your largest element takes 4.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Where The Boo Began”.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 498 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

The first text or image appears after 2.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 161 ms to 160 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 226 requests on a phone: scripts 2.4 MB (52), images 506 KiB (63) and other files 384 KiB (98). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image (39 KiB) is 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.

1 image further down the page (39 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 0.98 g of CO₂e: 118.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

8 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

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

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 46 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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 on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

The homepage links to 79 pages on ranker.com and 4 external pages.

Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Claude (Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.

There is no https://www.ranker.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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://www.ranker.com/list-of/sports, whose canonical is https://www.ranker.com/list-of/sports--and--games. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://www.ranker.com/tags/what-to-watch, https://www.ranker.com/tags/weird-history, https://www.ranker.com/tags/graveyard-shift, https://www.ranker.com/tags/total-nerd, https://www.ranker.com/tags/gaming and https://www.ranker.com/tags/unscripted and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 62 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://pixel.rubiconproject.com/token?pid=49096&us_privacy=1YNY.

9 of 45 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

5 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

11 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

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

Social proof on the homepage: 1 customer or partner logo. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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 841 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Comscore, Criteo, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and 4 mores (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 37 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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 67 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.