altapestcontrol.com website review

About 809 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 4.3 s faster on a phone.

15 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (745 KiB).

1 image could be 566 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.5 s faster on a phone.

5 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.8 s.

Your mobile performance score is 43 (desktop: 86). 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, Hubspot and Facebook and others), adding 1.8 MB and 1.6 s of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 870 ms of main-thread work and 1,019 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.

Hubspot costs a phone 408 ms of main-thread work and 546 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.

Polyfills for old browsers add 49 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 2.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

15 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 250 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 36 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.

Desktop scores 86 but mobile only 43. 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.

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

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.

Your largest element takes 19.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “So They Don’t Come Crawling Back.”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 21.0 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

The first text or image appears after 4.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 7.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 684 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 103 ms to 129 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 2.3 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 4.4 MB in 71 requests on a phone: images 2.4 MB (15), scripts 1.9 MB (29) and stylesheets 49 KiB (6). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.26 g of CO₂e: 150.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

4 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.

Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.

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

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

Your title is 88 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Alta Pest Control – Termite, Mosquito & Pest Control Services In TX OK TN KS NC NV VA WA”.

Your meta description is 257 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 155 pages on altapestcontrol.com and 14 external pages.

Your homepage links to 5 pages by a URL that isn't their canonical one, for example /locations/kansas-ks, whose canonical is /pest-control-kansas-ks. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 100 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://bat.bing.com/action/0?ti=187185700&tm=gtm002&Ver=2&mid=de09d759-f008-4f11-966e-c6307423a8d6&bo=1&sid=395f0d40cd1f11f1a0e5557111107eb9&vid=395f0bc0cd1f11f1a96bc99edf73729c&vids=1&msclkid=N&pi=9.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'addEventListener')”.

No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

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

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.

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

altapestcontrol.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.

Your homepage shows a map but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

The homepage carries about 433 words of visible text.

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 Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot and Meta Pixel and 1 more (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 15 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 28 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.