rd.com website review

12 images could be 726 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.4 s faster on a phone.

16 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.

Your mobile performance score is 70 (desktop: 98). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 49 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

43 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

About 34 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (10 KiB).

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

4 third-party services load with your homepage (trueanthem.com, Cloudflare and JSDelivr CDN and others), adding 49 KiB and 23 ms of main-thread time.

Desktop scores 98 but mobile only 70. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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.

Your largest element takes 6.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “This Food Is Actually Healthier as a Leftover”.

The first text or image appears after 2.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

5 images (208 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.40 g of CO₂e: 47.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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

2 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h4, h2 → h4 and h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to 150 pages on rd.com and 33 external pages.

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

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 120 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.rd.com/.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “No TMBI Bytes modules found on the page.”.

On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

Social proof on the homepage: 2 trust badges. 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.

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 608 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager and Pinterest Tag (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Ketch) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 15 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 27 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.