statmuse.com website review

The page has 3,890 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

50 images could be 1.2 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

About 768 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.

Your mobile performance score is 65 (desktop: 86). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (intergient.com, Google/Doubleclick Ads and Amazon Ads and others), adding 1.2 MB and 674 ms of main-thread time.

31 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (673 KiB).

A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.4 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

intergient.com costs a phone 242 ms of main-thread work and 470 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.

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 151 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 66 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 9.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Service and acknow…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 18.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors wait 285 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 399 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

6 images 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 219 ms to 221 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 1.8 s to 1.8 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 3.6 MB in 288 requests on a phone: scripts 1.6 MB (125), images 1.6 MB (99) and other files 225 KiB (56). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

3 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example buffalo-bills-dalton-kincaid--qe_mo119.png at 750 px wide, shown at 115 px. Resized copies would save about 289 KiB.

5 images further down the page (460 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.01 g of CO₂e: 121.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 16 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

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

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

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

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

No XML sitemap at https://www.statmuse.com/sitemap.txt, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

The homepage links to 664 pages on statmuse.com and 11 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 /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.

/questions is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

/trending and /money/trending use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

/mlb, /wnba, /nba, /nfl, /cfb and /fc and 3 others have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

/scores 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 198 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

34 of 85 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.

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

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: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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 607 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads (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 2 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 11 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.