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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 November 202638 issues · 78 checks

This review found 38 issues worth fixing on theboxball.de, 11 of them high impact, across 78 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of theboxball.de (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. theboxball.de at 0.7 s0.7 s
  2. theboxball.de at 1.3 s1.3 s
  3. theboxball.de at 2.0 s2.0 s
  4. theboxball.de at 2.6 s2.6 s
  5. theboxball.de at 3.3 s3.3 s
  6. theboxball.de at 3.9 s3.9 s
  7. theboxball.de at 4.6 s4.6 s
  8. theboxball.de at 5.2 s5.2 s

Speed

8 to fix61
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.8 s · 324 KiB

    About 324 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.8 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 61

    61/100

    Your mobile performance score is 61. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Clarity and Brightcove and others), adding 2.0 MB and 512 ms of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    400 ms · 72 KiB

    2 images could be 72 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 400 ms faster on a phone.

  • 2,809 HTML elements

    The page has 2,809 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 237 ms

    237 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 237 ms of main-thread work and 322 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Shopify adds 27 ms

    27 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 27 ms of main-thread work and 1.4 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.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    250 ms · 54 KiB

    8 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (54 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    150 ms · 34 KiB

    About 34 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.

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 169 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Chained critical requests

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

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Server response: 6 ms

    6 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 6 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix63
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.4 s

    10.4 s

    Your largest element takes 10.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.5 s

    10.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 6.5 s

    6.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.1 s

    3.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 7 images without width and height

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

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    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.

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  • Total Blocking Time: 199 ms

    199 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 199 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.007

    0.007

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.007, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 3.5 MB in 177 requests

    3.5 MB

    Your homepage downloads 3.5 MB in 177 requests on a phone: media 1.4 MB (1), scripts 867 KiB (46) and other files 744 KiB (93). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.98 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.98 g of CO₂e: 117.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

8 to fixGoogle 8789
  • 1 button without a name

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

  • 11 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Scrollable region must have keyboard access (1 element)

    Scrollable region must have keyboard access: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 image without alt text

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (5 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 5 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)

    Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 2 form fields without a label

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

  • Headings should not be empty (2 elements)

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

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

  • Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.

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

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  • 46 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 46 passed and 6 failed. 5 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 8584
  • No structured data

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

  • 2 H1 headlines

    There are 2 <h1> headlines (“” and “Spielerisch physische Aktivität.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • Meta description is long (220 characters)

    Your meta description is 220 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • 1 link crawlers can't follow

    1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.

  • 27 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 27 pages on theboxball.de and 7 external pages.

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  • Title: 45 characters

    Your title is a healthy 45 characters: “The Boxball - Spielerisch physische Aktivität”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://theboxball.de/.

  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://theboxball.de/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    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.

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  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (504 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://theboxball.de/llms.txt (5 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

5 to fix76
  • 6 pages share 3 titles

    https://theboxball.de/collections/all/products/family-pack and https://theboxball.de/products/family-pack all use the title “Family Pack 🎉 – The Boxball”, and 2 other titles repeat too. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 2 pages without a meta description

    https://theboxball.de/collections/all and https://theboxball.de/pages/contact-us have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 6 pages share a meta description

    https://theboxball.de/collections/all/products/family-pack, https://theboxball.de/collections/all/products/theboxball, https://theboxball.de/collections/all/products/the-boxball-rosa, https://theboxball.de/products/family-pack, https://theboxball.de/products/theboxball and https://theboxball.de/products/the-boxball-rosa use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 3 links to non-canonical URLs

    Your homepage links to 3 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example https://theboxball.de/collections/all/products/family-pack, whose canonical is https://theboxball.de/products/family-pack. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://theboxball.de/pages/app has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 3 pages with very little text

    https://theboxball.de/collections/all, https://theboxball.de/pages/contact-us and https://theboxball.de/collections/boxbollen 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.

  • 2 pages slow to respond

    https://theboxball.de/pages/terms-and-conditions and https://theboxball.de/pages/rucksendungen took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 13 internal pages checked

    We fetched 13 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 13 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 13 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 9 small tap targets

    9 of 19 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

3 to fix58
  • No call to action on the first screen

    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 calls to action

    We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

  • No direct contact details

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

  • No risk reducer

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

  • About 441 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 441 words of visible text.

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  • 9 short forms

    9 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks and a star rating.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 5 trackers load before any consent

    5

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Microsoft Clarity (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.

  • 11 cookies set on arrival

    11

    Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    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.

  • 20 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at theboxball.de, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

No apps were seen in the code your storefront loads.

Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info

Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
jQuery
E-commerce
Shopify
Analytics
Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Shopify

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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