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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202634 issues · 88 checks
This review found 34 issues worth fixing on word.tips, 13 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. 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
80BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 2, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 994 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 997 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 995 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 996 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 987 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 986 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 994 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | 144 ms |
| Apr 25, 2026 | 139 ms |
| May 2, 2026 | 137 ms |
| May 9, 2026 | 133 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 130 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 129 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 129 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 130 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 133 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 134 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 136 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 148 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 140 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 141 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 139 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 138 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 141 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 143 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 145 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 146 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 146 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
Speed
Reduce unused JavaScript
3.9 s · 779 KiBAbout 779 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.9 s faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
3.5 s · 724 KiB70 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (724 KiB).
Mobile performance score: 44
44/100Your mobile performance score is 44 (desktop: 68). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.
Main-thread work: 4.0 s
A phone's processor spends 4.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.8 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 (pub.network, Google/Doubleclick Ads and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 1.3 MB and 882 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused CSS
600 ms · 23 KiBAbout 23 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.
Minify JavaScript
300 ms · 15 KiB15 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.
Render-blocking requests
300 ms10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.
pub.network adds 212 ms
212 mspub.network costs a phone 212 ms of main-thread work and 466 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.
14 long tasks on the main thread
14 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 250 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
1,922 HTML elements
The page has 1,922 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Google/Doubleclick Ads adds 147 ms
147 msGoogle/Doubleclick Ads costs a phone 147 ms of main-thread work and 316 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.
Legacy JavaScript
58 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 58 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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.
1 checks passed
Server response: 20 ms
20 msYour server sent the HTML in 20 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 18.9 s
18.9 sYour largest element takes 18.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Find words or make words with these letters by Word Tips”.
Time to Interactive: 29.5 s
29.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 29.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
First Contentful Paint: 7.4 s
7.4 sThe first text or image appears after 7.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Speed Index: 8.7 s
8.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 8.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Total Blocking Time: 521 ms
521 msScripts block taps and scrolling for 521 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 144 ms to 146 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 1.1 s to 1.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
7 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.3 s
1.3 sReal visitors wait 1.3 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 170 ms
170 msReal visitors wait 170 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.05
0.05For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.05 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.2 s
1.2 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 399 ms
399 msReal visitors wait 399 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 2.6 MB in 499 requests
2.6 MBYour homepage downloads 2.6 MB in 499 requests on a phone: scripts 2.0 MB (102), other files 218 KiB (219) and HTML 208 KiB (53). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
About 0.7 g of CO₂ per visit
0.73 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.73 g of CO₂e: 88.2 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”.
Invalid ARIA attributes
1 element use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.
6 text elements with low contrast
6 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Orphan list items
Some list items are not inside a list.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (65 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 65 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.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
4 form fields without a label
4 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 41 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
45 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 7 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No social preview image
No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No X (Twitter) card tag
No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.
196 internal links, 13 external
The homepage links to 196 pages on word.tips and 13 external pages.
7 checks passed
Meta description: 152 characters
Your meta description is 152 characters: “WordTips Word Finder finds every word you can make from your letters for Scrabble, Words with Friends, and Wordle. Ente…”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Word Finder”.
Title: 49 characters
Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “Word Finder: Find & make words with these letters”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://word.tips/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, FAQPage, MobileApplication, Organization and WebPage.
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://word.tips/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No llms.txt
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.
3 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.
Organization data: 5 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles) and contact details; description would complete it.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (2,669 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without an H1
/games/mini-crossword 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 113 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
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
54 third-party cookies
54 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.
Browser-reported issues
Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
116 of 116 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
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.
Local business without LocalBusiness data
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 phone number on the homepage
A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.
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 opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No map or directions link
There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.
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 2,452 words of copy
The homepage carries about 2,452 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Words Start With”.
3 calls to action
The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Words Start With”, “Words that start with” and “Contact Us”.
1 short form
A short form (5 fields at most) is right on the homepage.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Cloudflare Web Analytics.
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.
13 cookies set on arrival
13Opening the homepage sets 13 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.
52 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 52 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 word.tips, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
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