statnews.com website review

5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.0 s.

A phone's processor spends 4.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 3.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, piano and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 1.4 MB and 1.5 s of main-thread time.

43 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (737 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 74. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 515 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

The page has 2,922 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 241 ms of main-thread work and 337 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.

18 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 248 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 50 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 50 ms).

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

1 image could be 26 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

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.

The page becomes fully interactive after 17.8 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 812 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Your largest element takes 2.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 69 ms to 83 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 1.1 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.3 MB in 170 requests on a phone: scripts 1.7 MB (78), fonts 215 KiB (8) and images 200 KiB (35). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

2 images (116 KiB) 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 0.66 g of CO₂e: 79.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Some list items are not inside a list.

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

ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 332 pages on statnews.com and 22 external pages.

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.

robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended and CCBot, which collect pages to train models. That's a legitimate choice and doesn't by itself stop the site appearing in AI answers, which the crawlers above handle.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 180 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=56352287&Ver=2&mid=6bdd66ae-5741-49f6-9fe3-c086f6f92b0c&bo=1&sid=7c6308e0d5d511f18290cf7cbdba6701&vid=7c633440d5d511f190747331ca5d484b&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=918639831&lg.

13 of 34 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

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”).

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

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.

The homepage carries about 960 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Comscore, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Hotjar and HubSpot and 6 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 41 cookies, 3 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 73 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.