scryfall.com website review

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.6 s.

About 228 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.1 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 75 (desktop: 94). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 113 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

7 images could be 312 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Polyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

scryfall.io costs a phone 0 ms of main-thread work and 453 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 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and Cloudflare and others), adding 774 KiB and 251 ms of main-thread time.

4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 98 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (20 KiB).

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Your largest element takes 6.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Scryfall Find cards Advanced Search Syntax Guide All Sets R…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 80 ms to 84 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.9 s to 1.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.38 g of CO₂e: 45.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

1 element has a tabindex above 0, which scrambles the keyboard order.

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

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

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

Headings skip levels (h1 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your meta description is only 65 characters: “A fast, powerful, comprehensive Magic: The Gathering card search.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

Structured data found (Organization and WebSite) but with 2 problems, for example “Organization: missing name”.

The homepage links to 36 pages on scryfall.com and 8 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing name, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no /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.

/advanced and /sets have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/advanced has 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.

32 of 47 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

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

The homepage has only about 219 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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 4 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 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.