thebackyardgolfgame.com website review

About 483 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.0 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 75. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 950 ms).

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (103 KiB).

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 182 ms of main-thread work and 448 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.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Klaviyo and pxucdn.com and others), adding 726 KiB and 301 ms of main-thread time.

2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 81 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 48 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

1 image could be 20 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.

Your largest element takes 6.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “The Backyard Golf Game - Complete Set”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 4.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

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.

3 images (136 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 0.53 g of CO₂e: 63.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

1 dropdown has no label.

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

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

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

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 22 characters: “The Backyard Golf Game”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

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

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

No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

The homepage links to 19 pages on thebackyardgolfgame.com and 4 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://thebackyardgolfgame.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.

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.

Your homepage links to https://thebackyardgolfgame.com/products/copy-of-the-backyard-golf-game, https://thebackyardgolfgame.com/collections/all, https://thebackyardgolfgame.com/pages/how-to-play, https://thebackyardgolfgame.com/pages/press-social-media, https://thebackyardgolfgame.com/pages/our-story and https://thebackyardgolfgame.com/pages/contact-us and 2 others, which answer with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop them.

We fetched 8 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

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: 14 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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 33 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Klaviyo (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 7 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 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.