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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 27 October 202628 issues · 74 checks

This review found 28 issues worth fixing on topgames.com, 6 of them high impact, across 74 checks. The most urgent: google Tag Manager adds 2.8 s. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.7 s1.5 sMay 9Oct 241.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20261.6 s
May 16, 20261.6 s
May 23, 20261.6 s
May 30, 20261.6 s
Jun 6, 20261.6 s
Jun 13, 20261.7 s
Jun 20, 20261.7 s
Jun 27, 20261.7 s
Jul 4, 20261.7 s
Jul 11, 20261.7 s
Jul 18, 20261.6 s
Jul 25, 20261.6 s
Aug 1, 20261.6 s
Aug 8, 20261.5 s
Aug 15, 20261.5 s
Aug 22, 20261.6 s
Aug 29, 20261.6 s
Sep 5, 20261.6 s
Sep 12, 20261.6 s
Sep 19, 20261.5 s
Sep 26, 20261.5 s
Oct 3, 20261.5 s
Oct 10, 20261.5 s
Oct 17, 20261.6 s
Oct 24, 20261.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
219 ms204 msMay 9Oct 24213 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 2026210 ms
May 16, 2026208 ms
May 23, 2026210 ms
May 30, 2026208 ms
Jun 6, 2026206 ms
Jun 13, 2026208 ms
Jun 20, 2026210 ms
Jun 27, 2026213 ms
Jul 4, 2026214 ms
Jul 11, 2026217 ms
Jul 18, 2026212 ms
Jul 25, 2026209 ms
Aug 1, 2026210 ms
Aug 8, 2026206 ms
Aug 15, 2026206 ms
Aug 22, 2026210 ms
Aug 29, 2026209 ms
Sep 5, 2026212 ms
Sep 12, 2026214 ms
Sep 19, 2026212 ms
Sep 26, 2026213 ms
Oct 3, 2026213 ms
Oct 10, 2026213 ms
Oct 17, 2026213 ms
Oct 24, 2026213 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of topgames.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. topgames.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. topgames.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. topgames.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. topgames.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. topgames.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. topgames.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. topgames.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. topgames.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

9 to fix57
  • Google Tag Manager adds 2.8 s

    2.8 s

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 2.8 s of main-thread work and 810 KiB of downloads while your page loads. That alone is enough to make taps feel slow. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Main-thread work: 8.7 s

    A phone's processor spends 8.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google/Doubleclick Ads and Google FundingChoices and others), adding 1.2 MB and 3.9 s of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    550 ms · 719 KiB

    80 images could be 719 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 550 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 57

    57/100

    Your mobile performance score is 57 (desktop: 78). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Render-blocking requests

    850 ms

    5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 850 ms.

  • Google/Doubleclick Ads adds 754 ms

    754 ms

    Google/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 754 ms of main-thread work and 295 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.

  • 20 long tasks on the main thread

    20 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 734 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    509 KiB

    About 509 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    40 KiB

    2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (40 KiB).

  • 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: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Total Blocking Time: 4.5 s

    4.5 s

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 4.5 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Time to Interactive: 16.1 s

    16.1 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 879 ms

    879 ms

    Real visitors wait 879 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 4.0 s

    4.0 s

    Your largest element takes 4.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Magic Tiles 3™ - Piano Game”.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +2%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 210 ms to 213 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.6 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.1 s

    2.1 s

    Real visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 196 ms

    196 ms

    Real visitors wait 196 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.5 s

    1.5 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 3.2 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.

  • First Contentful Paint: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 1.4 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

2 to fix78
  • Page weight: 2.7 MB in 156 requests

    2.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.7 MB in 156 requests on a phone: images 1.4 MB (103), scripts 1.2 MB (27) and other files 37 KiB (21). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 17 images below the first screen load straight away

    17 images further down the page (413 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.75 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.75 g of CO₂e: 90.4 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 are sized for phones

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

Accessibility

2 to fixGoogle 9695
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (93 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 93 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 94 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 18 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 20 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 18 passed and 2 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10085
  • Title is long (69 characters)

    Your title is 69 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Top Game APPs, Free Online Games and Video Walkthrough - TopGames.Com”.

  • No structured data

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

  • No XML sitemap

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

  • Open Graph partly set

    Open Graph is missing og:title and og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 98 internal links, 2 external

    The homepage links to 98 pages on topgames.com and 2 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 133 characters

    Your meta description is 133 characters: “Discover the best Game APPs, Play 100% Free Online Games, Check Our Newest Video Walkthrough, Tips and Tricks on Topgam…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Top Game APPs, Free Online Games and Video Walkthrough”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.topgames.com/.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

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.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://www.topgames.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.

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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 (613 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 1 page without an H1

    https://www.topgames.com/gameswalkthrough has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 95 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9678
  • 1 broken image

    1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=97186964&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=7d1fa5d4-baa4-46a5-8579-1821dd66fe59&bo=1&sid=3747b220d23911f1b33421db95a7c981&vid=3747e760d23911f1aaf457b27a29913e&vids=1&msclkid=N&gtm_t.

  • 65 small tap targets

    65 of 65 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

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  • No console errors

    No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

2 to fix83
  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 261 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 261 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact Us”.

  • 1 call to action

    The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Contact Us”.

  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

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

  • 12 cookies set on arrival

    12

    Opening the homepage sets 12 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.

  • 12 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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