tryhardguides.com website review

About 744 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.6 s faster on a phone.

7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (501 KiB).

Your mobile performance score is 42 (desktop: 80). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, adthrive.com and Google/Doubleclick Ads and others), adding 1.5 MB and 850 ms of main-thread time.

3 images could be 88 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 500 ms faster on a phone.

Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 400 ms faster on a phone.

adthrive.com costs a phone 328 ms of main-thread work and 734 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.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 346 ms of main-thread work and 429 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 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 275 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 39 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.

5 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 50 ms.

Desktop scores 80 but mobile only 42. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

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 14.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Featured Nyt Midi Answers”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 14.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 4.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 731 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 131 ms to 120 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.54 g of CO₂e: 64.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

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: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Document should not have more than one banner landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your meta description is 179 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 122 pages on tryhardguides.com and 4 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing url, logo, description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

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.

/category/word-games and /category/game-reviews have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 90 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

9 images failed to load on a phone, for example https://cs.media.net/cksync?cs=3&gdpr=0&gdpr_consent=&gpp_sid=6%2C7&gpp_string=DBABzw~1YNY~BVQqAAAAAgA&ovsid=f560779a-1de7-4df6-aa9b-85ff533b214b&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fids.api.gcprivacy.id%2Fv1%2Frt%.

15 of 39 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 401 (Unauthorized)”.

Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 180 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

tryhardguides.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

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

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

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

The homepage carries about 409 words of visible text.

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be tryhardguides.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Comscore, Criteo, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager and 2 mores (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 23 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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 53 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.