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wheelofnames.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202640 issues · 83 checks
This review found 40 issues worth fixing on wheelofnames.com, 13 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: main-thread work: 30.0 s. 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
76CClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.4 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 394 ms |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 391 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 389 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 387 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 385 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 382 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 378 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 376 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 377 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 378 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 379 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 383 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 385 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 382 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 381 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 377 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 374 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 375 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 372 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 370 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 379 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 389 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 402 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 414 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 411 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
1.4 s
2.8 s
4.2 s
5.6 s
7.0 s
8.4 s
9.8 s
11.2 s
Speed
Main-thread work: 30.0 s
A phone's processor spends 30.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 4.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.
Render-blocking requests
1.3 s1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 1.3 s.
8 third-party services on the page
8 third-party services load with your homepage (pub.network, Google/Doubleclick Ads and Pubmatic and others), adding 1.4 MB and 1.2 s of main-thread time.
Mobile performance score: 64
64/100Your mobile performance score is 64. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 826 KiB99 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (826 KiB).
Reduce unused JavaScript
300 ms · 569 KiBAbout 569 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.
pub.network adds 294 ms
294 mspub.network costs a phone 294 ms of main-thread work and 436 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/Doubleclick Ads adds 252 ms
252 msGoogle/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 252 ms of main-thread work and 458 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.
17 long tasks on the main thread
17 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 289 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
23 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Improve image delivery
22 KiB2 images could be 22 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 1 ms
1 msYour server sent the HTML in 1 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.
Time to Interactive: 32.0 s
32.0 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 32.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.9 s
8.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
First Contentful Paint: 3.2 s
3.2 sThe first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Total Blocking Time: 617 ms
617 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 617 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user INP: 414 ms
414 msReal visitors wait 414 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.2 s
3.2 sYour largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+5%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 394 ms to 411 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
+4%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.3 s to 2.4 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
5 checks passed
Real-user LCP: 2.4 s
2.4 sReal visitors wait 2.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.03
0.03For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.03 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.7 s
1.7 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.7 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 589 ms
589 msReal visitors wait 589 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.014
0.014The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.014, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 3.0 MB in 1,244 requests
3.0 MBYour homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 1,244 requests on a phone: scripts 1.9 MB (117), other files 432 KiB (569) and HTML 260 KiB (116). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit
0.84 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.84 g of CO₂e: 100.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
3 checks passed
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
2 buttons without a name
2 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name (1 element)
ARIA input fields must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.
1 text element with low contrast
1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (8 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 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.
1 form field without a label
1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
No page language
The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
44 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 49 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 44 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (14 characters)
Your title is only 14 characters: “Wheel of Names”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
1 link crawlers can't follow
1 link has no real href, so search engines can't follow it.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.
6 internal links, 1 external
The homepage links to 6 pages on wheelofnames.com and 1 external page.
6 checks passed
Meta description: 160 characters
Your meta description is 160 characters: “Free and easy to use spinner. Used by teachers and for raffles. Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Custom…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Wheel of Names is the leading free online spinning wheel tool used as an advanced random name picker, raffle selector, …”.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: WebApplication, WebPage and WebSite.
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://wheelofnames.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://wheelofnames.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.
2 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.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (1,008 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
6 pages share a title
/, https://wheelofnames.com/how-to-use-in-the-classroom, https://wheelofnames.com/user-reviews-and-tutorials, https://wheelofnames.com/privacy-policy, https://wheelofnames.com/streaming and https://wheelofnames.com/randomness-audit all use the title “Wheel of Names”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.
5 pages share a meta description
https://wheelofnames.com/how-to-use-in-the-classroom, https://wheelofnames.com/user-reviews-and-tutorials, https://wheelofnames.com/privacy-policy, https://wheelofnames.com/streaming and https://wheelofnames.com/randomness-audit use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 page without an H1
https://wheelofnames.com/faq has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
6 internal pages checked
We fetched 6 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 6 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 6 pages that loaded have a meta description.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 6 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
37 third-party cookies
37 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
5 small tap targets
5 of 13 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
Deprecated browser APIs
The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).
4 JavaScript errors while loading
4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE”.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Mixed content”).
1 checks passed
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
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 calls to action
We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.
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 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 form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
About 959 words of copy
The homepage carries about 959 words of visible text.
2 checks passed
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
7 trackers load before any consent
7Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Amazon Ads, 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.
14 cookies set on arrival
14Opening the homepage sets 14 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.
84 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 84 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
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 wheelofnames.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
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