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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202621 issues · 72 checks
This review found 21 issues worth fixing on wave.tv, 4 of them high impact, across 72 checks. The most urgent: page weight: 11.5 MB in 37 requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
91AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.9 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.7 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2026 | 71 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 67 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 67 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 64 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 68 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 69 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 74 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 74 ms |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 76 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
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Render-blocking requests
1.1 s7 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.1 s.
Improve image delivery
4.5 MB9 images could be 4.5 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (website-files.com, cloudfront.net and JSDelivr CDN and others), adding 11.4 MB and 157 ms of main-thread time.
website-files.com adds 106 ms
106 mswebsite-files.com costs a phone 106 ms of main-thread work and 11.3 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.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 18 KiBAbout 18 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.
1 long task on the main thread
1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 54 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Font display
50 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).
Use efficient cache lifetimes
8 KiB5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (8 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.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 91
91/100Your mobile performance score is 91. That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 0.6 s
A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 203 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 4 ms
4 msYour server sent the HTML in 4 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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.
Real-user FCP: 1.9 s
1.9 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.9 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 805 ms
805 msReal visitors wait 805 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.3 s
3.3 sYour largest element takes 3.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Building The Future of Fandom”.
First Contentful Paint: 2.2 s
2.2 sThe first text or image appears after 2.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
18 images without width and height
18 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 71 ms to 76 ms 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 sReal visitors wait 2.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 83 ms
83 msReal visitors wait 83 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Largest content (LCP) got 10% faster for real visitors
-10%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.8 s to 1.7 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Time to Interactive: 3.3 s
3.3 sThe page is fully interactive after 3.3 s.
Speed Index: 2.2 s
2.2 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.2 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.019
0.019The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.019, good is under 0.1).
Total Blocking Time: 4 ms
4 msScripts block the page for only 4 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
Page weight: 11.5 MB in 37 requests
11.5 MBYour homepage downloads 11.5 MB in 37 requests on a phone: images 11.2 MB (22), fonts 122 KiB (4) and scripts 121 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 3.3 g of CO₂ per visit
3.26 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.26 g of CO₂e: 391.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
28 links without text
28 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names.
Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (4 elements).
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Every image has alt text
All 24 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 41 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
29 internal links, 53 external
The homepage links to 29 pages on wave.tv and 53 external pages.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 151 characters
Your meta description is 151 characters: “Wave Sports and Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next g…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Building The Future of Fandom”.
Title: 61 characters
Your title is a healthy 61 characters: “Wave Sports and Entertainment — Building The Future of Fandom”.
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://www.wavesportsandentertainment.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.wavesportsandentertainment.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 (891 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
2 pages share a meta description
https://www.wavesportsandentertainment.com/policies/terms and https://www.wavesportsandentertainment.com/policies/privacy use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
2 pages without an H1
https://www.wavesportsandentertainment.com/network and https://www.wavesportsandentertainment.com/media have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
https://www.wavesportsandentertainment.com/contact has 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.
8 internal pages checked
We fetched 8 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
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Linked pages load
All 8 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 8 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 8 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
14 small tap targets
14 of 61 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 find a valid digest in the 'integrity' attribute for resource 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@flowbase-co/boos…”.
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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 854 words of copy
The homepage carries about 854 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “GET IN TOUCH”.
20 calls to action
The homepage has 20 calls to action, for example “Shop”, “Contact” and “GET IN TOUCH”.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 6 email links.
Privacy and tracking
1 cookie set on arrival
1Opening the homepage sets 1 cookie (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.
5 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts 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 wave.tv, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2025.
Stack
- CMS
- Webflow
- Hosting
- Webflow
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 21 issues on wave.tv, including 10 speed issues, 2 SEO issues and 2 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
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- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
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- Earned media and PR openings
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- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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