rattletrapproductions.com website review

8 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 5.0 s.

About 801 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.6 s faster on a phone.

6 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (662 KiB).

6 images could be 364 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

About 166 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

154 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Cloudflare CDN and Facebook and others), adding 1.3 MB and 240 ms of main-thread time.

storycanvas.co costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 713 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.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 65 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

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

7 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

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.

The first text or image appears after 7.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 13.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 13.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

Your homepage downloads 2.1 MB in 50 requests on a phone: stylesheets 729 KiB (6), images 586 KiB (10) and scripts 431 KiB (14). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

DSCF9183-Edit.jpg.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 further down the page (258 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 0.59 g of CO₂e: 70.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 23 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

Your title is only 22 characters: “Rattletrap Productions”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Structured data found (EntertainmentBusiness) but with 1 problem, for example “EntertainmentBusiness: url is not an absolute URL ("rattletrapproductions.com")”.

The homepage links to 22 pages on rattletrapproductions.com and 11 external pages.

There is no https://rattletrapproductions.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://rattletrapproductions.com/shows, https://rattletrapproductions.com/stacey-david, https://rattletrapproductions.com/distribution, https://rattletrapproductions.com/gearz-season-20, https://rattletrapproductions.com/testimonials and https://rattletrapproductions.com/privacy-policy use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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

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

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 581 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (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 2 cookies (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 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.