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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 29 October 202631 issues · 101 checks

This review found 31 issues worth fixing on arcoconstruction.com, 12 of them high impact, across 101 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
2.1 s1.2 sMay 9Oct 241.6 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 9, 20261.4 s
May 16, 20261.5 s
May 23, 20261.5 s
May 30, 20261.6 s
Jun 6, 20261.6 s
Jun 13, 20261.7 s
Jun 20, 20262.0 s
Jun 27, 20261.8 s
Jul 4, 20261.8 s
Jul 11, 20261.6 s
Jul 18, 20261.4 s
Jul 25, 20261.5 s
Aug 1, 20261.6 s
Aug 8, 20261.7 s
Aug 15, 20262.0 s
Aug 22, 20261.9 s
Aug 29, 20261.8 s
Sep 5, 20261.6 s
Sep 12, 20261.3 s
Sep 19, 20261.4 s
Sep 26, 20261.4 s
Oct 3, 20261.4 s
Oct 10, 20261.6 s
Oct 17, 20261.6 s
Oct 24, 20261.6 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
103 ms75 msMay 9Oct 2488 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 9, 202688 ms
May 16, 202686 ms
May 23, 202687 ms
May 30, 202685 ms
Jun 6, 202681 ms
Jun 13, 202681 ms
Jun 20, 202684 ms
Jun 27, 202683 ms
Jul 4, 202679 ms
Jul 11, 202682 ms
Jul 18, 202681 ms
Jul 25, 202685 ms
Aug 1, 202692 ms
Aug 8, 2026100 ms
Aug 15, 2026100 ms
Aug 22, 202696 ms
Aug 29, 202691 ms
Sep 5, 202678 ms
Sep 12, 202680 ms
Sep 19, 202685 ms
Sep 26, 202686 ms
Oct 3, 202688 ms
Oct 10, 202694 ms
Oct 17, 202688 ms
Oct 24, 202688 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

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Speed

7 to fix52
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    6.2 s · 802 KiB

    About 802 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 6.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.4 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.4 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    900 ms · 184 KiB

    About 184 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 52

    52/100

    Your mobile performance score is 52. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (Google CDN, Google Tag Manager and Other Google APIs/SDKs and others), adding 1.1 MB and 518 ms of main-thread time.

  • Google CDN adds 410 ms

    410 ms

    Google CDN costs a phone 410 ms of main-thread work and 734 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.

  • Main-thread work: 2.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.3 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Improve image delivery

    150 ms · 225 KiB

    3 images could be 225 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 23 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 9 long tasks on the main thread

    9 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 134 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Font display

    50 ms

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

  • 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.

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  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • First Contentful Paint: 11.1 s

    11.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 11.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 16.3 s

    16.3 s

    Your largest element takes 16.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “A Better Construction Experience Begins with ARCO”.

  • Speed Index: 11.1 s

    11.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 11.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Time to Interactive: 16.5 s

    16.5 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 209 ms

    209 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 209 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    +1%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 88 ms to 88 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) got 14% slower for real visitors

    +14%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.4 s to 1.6 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • 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: 1.6 s

    1.6 s

    Real visitors wait 1.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 89 ms

    89 ms

    Real visitors wait 89 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.3 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 757 ms

    757 ms

    Real visitors wait 757 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.009

    0.009

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.009, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 4.7 MB in 87 requests

    4.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 4.7 MB in 87 requests on a phone: images 2.2 MB (13), scripts 1.5 MB (50) and fonts 478 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (118 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 4 images below the first screen load straight away

    4 images further down the page (139 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 1.3 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.34 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.34 g of CO₂e: 161.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8092
  • Invalid ARIA attributes

    3 elements use ARIA attributes their role does not allow, which confuses screen readers.

  • 4 text elements with low contrast

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

  • Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (1 element)

    Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • 5 links without text

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

  • 1 form field without a label

    1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h5, h2 → h4 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 31 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 50 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 50 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

1 to fixGoogle 10097
  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 97 internal links, 24 external

    The homepage links to 97 pages on arcoconstruction.com and 24 external pages.

7 checks passed
  • Meta description: 133 characters

    Your meta description is 133 characters: “ARCO Construction Company is an industry-leading design-build general contractor with national reach and over 30 years …”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “A Better Construction Experience Begins with ARCO”.

  • Title: 59 characters

    Your title is a healthy 59 characters: “ARCO Construction Company | Design-Build General Contractor”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://arcoconstruction.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.

  • 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://arcoconstruction.com/sitemap_index.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • 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 /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 (774 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 14 linked pages hidden from search

    /about, /safety, /projects, /distribution-warehouse-projects, /multi-family-projects and /senior-living-projects and 8 others are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 2 pages share a meta description

    /commercial-projects and /specialty-projects use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 35 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

6 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    14 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 14 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • Every page has a title

    All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 31 small tap targets

    31 of 39 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix86
  • No HSTS header

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

  • No Content-Security-Policy

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

  • No clickjacking protection

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

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • No security.txt

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

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  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (arcoconstruction.com).

  • Valid certificate (85 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for arcoconstruction.com and is valid for another 85 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://arcoconstruction.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 51 links work

    All 51 links checked from your homepage (38 internal, 13 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    arcoconstruction.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

  • DNSSEC is off

    arcoconstruction.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.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 26 years old

    26 years

    arcoconstruction.com was registered in Sep 2000 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Sep 2027

    arcoconstruction.com is registered until Sep 2027.

Content and conversion

2 to fix79
  • 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.

  • About 697 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 697 words of visible text.

5 checks passed
  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact”.

  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Contact ARCO”.

  • 2 short forms

    2 short forms (6 fields at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.

  • 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.

Email authentication

1 to fix40
  • No SPF record

    arcoconstruction.com has no SPF record, so mail servers can't tell which servers may send email as you. Your mail lands in spam more often, and anyone can send mail pretending to be you.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Domain receives no email

    arcoconstruction.com has no MX record, so it receives no email. SPF -all and DMARC reject still matter: they stop others sending mail as you.

  • Email authentication score: 40/100

    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.

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  • DMARC policy: quarantine

    DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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.

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 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.

  • 6 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 6 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It runs WordPress 3.7.1; the current release is 7.1.4.

Stack

CMS
WordPress 3.7.1
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics
Hosting
Cloudflare

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