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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202629 issues · 77 checks

This review found 29 issues worth fixing on rsgolf.com, 10 of them high impact, across 77 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 13.0 MB in 440 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
1.7 s953 msMay 23Oct 171.2 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 23, 20261.3 s
May 30, 20261.3 s
Jun 6, 20261.3 s
Jun 13, 20261.3 s
Jun 20, 20261.3 s
Jun 27, 20261.3 s
Jul 4, 20261.3 s
Jul 11, 20261.2 s
Jul 18, 20261.3 s
Jul 25, 20261.3 s
Aug 1, 20261.2 s
Aug 8, 20261.3 s
Aug 15, 20261.1 s
Aug 22, 20261.0 s
Aug 29, 20261.1 s
Sep 5, 20261.2 s
Sep 12, 20261.6 s
Sep 19, 20261.6 s
Sep 26, 20261.4 s
Oct 3, 20261.4 s
Oct 10, 20261.2 s
Oct 17, 20261.2 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
98 ms78 msMay 23Sep 2686 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 23, 202680 ms
May 30, 202682 ms
Jun 6, 202684 ms
Jun 13, 202684 ms
Jun 20, 202686 ms
Jun 27, 202693 ms
Jul 4, 202696 ms
Jul 11, 202695 ms
Jul 18, 202696 ms
Jul 25, 202693 ms
Aug 1, 202696 ms
Aug 8, 202696 ms
Aug 15, 202692 ms
Aug 22, 202694 ms
Sep 5, 202685 ms
Sep 12, 202695 ms
Sep 26, 202686 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 rsgolf.com (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. rsgolf.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  2. rsgolf.com at 3.0 s3.0 s
  3. rsgolf.com at 4.6 s4.6 s
  4. rsgolf.com at 6.1 s6.1 s
  5. rsgolf.com at 7.6 s7.6 s
  6. rsgolf.com at 9.1 s9.1 s
  7. rsgolf.com at 10.7 s10.7 s
  8. rsgolf.com at 12.2 s12.2 s

Speed

8 to fix72
  • Main-thread work: 7.4 s

    A phone's processor spends 7.4 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.0 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Mobile performance score: 72

    72/100

    Your mobile performance score is 72. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    950 ms

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 950 ms.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (weglot.com, OptiMonk and Shopify and others), adding 1.2 MB and 549 ms of main-thread time.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    150 ms · 262 KiB

    About 262 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2,741 HTML elements

    The page has 2,741 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • OptiMonk adds 137 ms

    137 ms

    OptiMonk costs a phone 137 ms of main-thread work and 430 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.

  • Shopify adds 81 ms

    81 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 81 ms of main-thread work and 357 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.

  • 5 long tasks on the main thread

    5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 214 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 43 KiB

    About 43 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    183 KiB

    9 images could be 183 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    173 KiB

    9 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (173 KiB).

  • Legacy JavaScript

    40 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 40 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Duplicated JavaScript

    24 KiB

    24 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.

  • 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.

  • Forced reflow

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

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  • Server response: 14 ms

    14 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 14 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix76
  • Speed Index: 15.7 s

    15.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 15.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 9.4 s

    9.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 9.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 4.7 s

    4.7 s

    Your largest element takes 4.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • 2 images without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) got 12% slower for real visitors

    +12%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 80 ms to 86 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 1.3 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • Total Blocking Time: 158 ms

    158 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 158 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s

    1.2 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 13.0 MB in 440 requests

    13.0 MB

    Your homepage downloads 13.0 MB in 440 requests on a phone: media 8.7 MB (1), other files 1.6 MB (248) and scripts 1.1 MB (116). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 3.7 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.69 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.69 g of CO₂e: 442.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 9091
  • 14 tap targets too small

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

  • 8 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Interactive controls must not be nested (5 elements)

    Interactive controls must not be nested: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 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 (8 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

    Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (1 element).

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  • 52 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 58 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 52 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9286
  • Meta description is long (290 characters)

    Your meta description is 290 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • Structured data has 1 problem

    Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “Organization: logo is not an absolute URL ("https:files/RSG_MASTER_LOGO.png")”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 58 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 58 pages on rsgolf.com and 7 external pages.

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  • Title: 65 characters

    Your title is a healthy 65 characters: “Red Stakes Golf | The American Made Golf Simulator Co. | Join Us!”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://rsgolf.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://rsgolf.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
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  • 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: 4 of 6 facts

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,769 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

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

Other pages

2 to fix93
  • 5 pages share a meta description

    https://rsgolf.com/pages/technology, https://rsgolf.com/pages/rsg-club, https://rsgolf.com/pages/review, https://rsgolf.com/pages/rsg-about-us and https://rsgolf.com/pages/rsg-contact-us use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 5 pages without an H1

    https://rsgolf.com/collections/pro-shop, https://rsgolf.com/collections/simulators, https://rsgolf.com/collections/rsg-one-bundles, https://rsgolf.com/collections/rsg-pro-bundles and https://rsgolf.com/pages/rsg-contact-us have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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
  • 21 small tap targets

    21 of 41 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 “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix79
  • 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.

  • No direct contact details

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

  • About 813 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 813 words of visible text.

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  • 12 calls to action

    The homepage has 12 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Visit The Pro Shop Visit The Pro Shop” and “RSG SHOP”.

  • 5 short forms

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

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: a star rating and “more than 18,000 customers”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics.

  • Risk reducer mentioned

    A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 7 trackers load before any consent

    7

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and Meta Pixel and 2 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.

  • 22 cookies set on arrival

    22

    Opening the homepage sets 22 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.

  • 37 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 37 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 rsgolf.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

Smart Seo · Optimonk Popup Cro A B Test · Chatbase · Pagefly Ai Page Builder · Applovin Shop Integration · klaviyo.com · govx.com · weglot.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 Analytics
Hosting
Shopify

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

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