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thegolfstudio.ca website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 6 November 202630 issues · 68 checks

This review found 30 issues worth fixing on thegolfstudio.ca, 8 of them high impact, across 68 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 16.1 MB in 299 requests. 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

Site score

75C

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Full-page screenshot of thegolfstudio.ca (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

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  2. thegolfstudio.ca at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. thegolfstudio.ca at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. thegolfstudio.ca at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. thegolfstudio.ca at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. thegolfstudio.ca at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. thegolfstudio.ca at 2.8 s2.8 s
  8. thegolfstudio.ca at 3.2 s3.2 s

Speed

6 to fix67

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Google CDN and bookthatapp.com and others), adding 14.6 MB and 347 ms of main-thread time.

  • Shopify adds 136 ms

    136 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 136 ms of main-thread work and 14.1 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.

  • Mobile performance score: 67

    67/100

    Your mobile performance score is 67. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    820 ms · 179 KiB

    About 179 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 820 ms faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    450 ms

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 450 ms.

  • Main-thread work: 3.2 s

    A phone's processor spends 3.2 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 94 KiB

    5 images could be 94 KiB 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.

  • Font display

    200 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 200 ms).

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 40 KiB

    40 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • 5 long tasks on the main thread

    5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 88 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    24 KiB

    7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (24 KiB).

  • Reduce unused CSS

    12 KiB

    About 12 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 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.

1 checks passed

  • Server response: 4 ms

    4 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

4 to fix67

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 9.1 s

    9.1 s

    Your largest element takes 9.1 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “An indoor golf simulator setup with a large screen showing …”.

  • Time to Interactive: 10.6 s

    10.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 10.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 5.8 s

    5.8 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 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.

2 checks passed

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 28 ms

    28 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 28 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix33

  • Page weight: 16.1 MB in 299 requests

    16.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 16.1 MB in 299 requests on a phone: media 13.7 MB (1), scripts 937 KiB (140) and other files 795 KiB (111). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 4.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    4.56 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.56 g of CO₂e: 547.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9790

  • Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used (1 element)

    Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated critical by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

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

  • 13 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Headings should not be empty (1 element)

    Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

2 checks passed

  • Every image has alt text

    All 11 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 20 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 23 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 20 passed and 3 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10085

  • Title is short (15 characters)

    Your title is only 15 characters: “The Golf Studio”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • 3 H1 headlines

    There are 3 <h1> headlines (“”, “Welcome to The Golf Studio - a 24-hour indoor gol…” and “Practice, play golf, or just play. Enjoy 400+ cou…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

  • No social preview image

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

  • 39 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 39 pages on thegolfstudio.ca and 6 external pages.

5 checks passed

  • Meta description: 85 characters

    Your meta description is 85 characters: “A 24/7 automated indoor golf experience in the heart of Picton, Prince Edward County.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://thegolfstudio.ca/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: Organization and WebSite.

  • 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://thegolfstudio.ca/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

100
3 checks passed

  • 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.

  • Organization data: 4 of 6 facts

    Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo and sameAs (social profiles); description and contact details would complete it.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes https://thegolfstudio.ca/llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

4 to fix68

  • 1 page without a title

    https://thegolfstudio.ca/customer_authentication/redirect has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.

  • 1 linked page hidden from search

    https://thegolfstudio.ca/customer_authentication/redirect is marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If it is meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 6 pages without a meta description

    https://thegolfstudio.ca/pages/rates, https://thegolfstudio.ca/pages/the-studio, https://thegolfstudio.ca/customer_authentication/redirect, https://thegolfstudio.ca/policies/terms-of-service, https://thegolfstudio.ca/policies/privacy-policy and https://thegolfstudio.ca/pages/faqs have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 6 pages without an H1

    https://thegolfstudio.ca/collections/lessons, https://thegolfstudio.ca/pages/rates, https://thegolfstudio.ca/pages/the-studio, https://thegolfstudio.ca/pages/how-it-works, https://thegolfstudio.ca/customer_authentication/redirect and https://thegolfstudio.ca/pages/faqs have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 1 page slow to respond

    https://thegolfstudio.ca/customer_authentication/redirect took over 3 s to send its HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 18 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 checks passed

  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

Best practices

1 to fixGoogle 9692

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    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 429 ()”.

1 checks passed

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

7 to fix50

  • 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 social proof

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

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • No analytics detected

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

  • 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.

  • Only about 10 words

    The homepage has only about 10 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No map or directions link

    There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

  • 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.

2 checks passed

  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Book a Tee Time”, “Pricing” and “Book a tee time”.

  • 3 short forms

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

Privacy and tracking

  • 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.

  • 1 other company contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 1 host run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed

  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

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 thegolfstudio.ca, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.

Apps on your store

Your storefront loads 3 apps. Each one is code from another company running for your shoppers.

Apps your storefront loads

Inbox · Bta Booking App · bookthatapp.com

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
Hosting
Shopify

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

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