scruffoftheneck.com website review

31 images could be 7.4 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.0 s faster on a phone.

22 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6.3 MB).

10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 3.0 s.

About 437 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.5 s faster on a phone.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and bandsintown.com and others), adding 9.1 MB and 734 ms of main-thread time.

Your mobile performance score is 53. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Amazon Web Services costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 5.7 MB 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 337 ms of main-thread work and 377 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.

About 56 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 310 ms faster on a phone.

bandsintown.com costs a phone 165 ms of main-thread work and 441 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.

imgix costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 1.9 MB 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.

7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 248 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).

Polyfills for old browsers add 18 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.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Your largest element takes 32.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Scruff of the Neck is an established Manchester (UK) record…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 33.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 4.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

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

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 288 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 109 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.4 s to 2.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 9.2 MB in 63 requests on a phone: images 7.7 MB (35), scripts 1.1 MB (11) and fonts 329 KiB (4). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

15 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example NQ_Takeover_31.01.25_Square-scaled.jpg at 2,560 px wide, shown at 170 px. Resized copies would save about 5.1 MB.

3 images weigh 2.6 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

15 images further down the page (5.7 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

12 images (3.8 MB) 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 2.61 g of CO₂e: 312.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

1 button has no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.

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

Some list items are not inside a list.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Headings should not be empty: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Your title is only 18 characters: “Scruff of the Neck”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Structured data found (BreadcrumbList, Event, WebPage and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Event: offers is an empty list”.

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

The homepage links to 79 pages on scruffoftheneck.com and 21 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.scruffoftheneck.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.

Your homepage links to https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/pages/store and https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/pages/tv, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/artists, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/projects, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/event/northside-manchester-new-century-hall, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/event/the-cheap-thrills-blackpool-bootleg-social, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/event/giant-rooks-manchester-new-century-hall and https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/event/oscar-jerome-london-scala and 4 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/artists, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/projects, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/contact, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/event/northside-manchester-new-century-hall, https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/event/the-cheap-thrills-blackpool-bootleg-social and https://www.scruffoftheneck.com/event/giant-rooks-manchester-new-century-hall and 5 others have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 28 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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

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.

Social proof on the homepage: 6 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

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 921 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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 8 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 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.