roadandtrack.com website review

About 1.3 MB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.3 s faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 11.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 7.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.1 s.

Your mobile performance score is 28 (desktop: 57). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (ftstatic.com, Google Tag Manager and Integral Ad Science and others), adding 2.9 MB and 3.1 s of main-thread time.

109 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.4 MB).

ftstatic.com costs a phone 777 ms of main-thread work and 105 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.

17 images could be 616 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 494 ms of main-thread work and 484 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.

Integral Ad Science costs a phone 462 ms of main-thread work and 325 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/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 429 ms of main-thread work and 558 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.

DoubleVerify costs a phone 431 ms of main-thread work and 315 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 70 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 334 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

The page has 1,678 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

About 42 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

96 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Desktop scores 57 but mobile only 28. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

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 16.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “silver suv driving on desert highway with mountains in back…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 47.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 14.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 5.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.9 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 98 ms to 130 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 1.4 s to 1.5 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 6.3 MB in 484 requests on a phone: scripts 4.4 MB (189), images 1,017 KiB (101) and other files 455 KiB (164). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example e1fe1fc5-36a3-4f25-8b07-60d822e805cf.jpeg at 292 px wide, shown at 80 px. Resized copies would save about 37 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.80 g of CO₂e: 215.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Elements use prohibited ARIA attributes (1 element).

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

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (2 elements).

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

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

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

The homepage links to 158 pages on roadandtrack.com and 32 external pages.

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.

There is no https://www.roadandtrack.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://www.roadandtrack.com/about/a43977000/about-us-contact-information-masthead, https://www.roadandtrack.com/pcoty-2026-collection and https://www.roadandtrack.com/columns-collection are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/newsletter and https://www.roadandtrack.com/email/roadandtrack-newsletter all use the title “Road & Track Newsletter: Sign Up for Free”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/offers/all-access-membership and https://www.roadandtrack.com/my-stuff have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/newsletter and https://www.roadandtrack.com/email/roadandtrack-newsletter use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

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

https://www.roadandtrack.com/pcoty-2026-collection and https://www.roadandtrack.com/offers/all-access-membership have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/print took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 106 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

13 of 33 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.

4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED”.

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

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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.

A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

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

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

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 1,517 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, Comscore, Criteo, Google Ads and Google Analytics and 4 mores (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 44 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 76 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.