verygoodpuzzle.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 46. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

About 153 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

54 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (9 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 8 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 200 ms faster on a phone.

About 57 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.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, eggflow.net and ahrefs.com and others), adding 374 KiB and 160 ms of main-thread time.

4 images could be 78 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 60 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

12 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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

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

Your largest element takes 10.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The layout shifts by 0.84 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

The page becomes fully interactive after 10.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

1 image 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.50 g of CO₂e: 60.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

Interactive controls must not be nested: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious 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.

2 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

Your title is only 16 characters: “VERY GOOD PUZZLE”. 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.

Your meta description is 231 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

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.

2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

Your <h1> is empty.

The homepage links to 50 pages on verygoodpuzzle.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.

https://verygoodpuzzle.com/collections/all-products, https://verygoodpuzzle.com/collections/100-piece-puzzles, https://verygoodpuzzle.com/collections/snack-size-puzzles, https://verygoodpuzzle.com/pages/local-artist-puzzles, https://verygoodpuzzle.com/pages/local-puzzles and https://verygoodpuzzle.com/collections/all and 2 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 26 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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

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

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 analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

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

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

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

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 420 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (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 14 cookies, 1 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 18 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.