calhounconstructs.com website review

48 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (6.7 MB).

21 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.6 s.

8 images could be 13.7 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 900 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 66 (desktop: 89). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 182 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, FontAwesome CDN and LinkedIn Ads and others), adding 596 KiB and 163 ms of main-thread time.

About 94 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 63 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

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

8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

Polyfills for old browsers add 9 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

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 6.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “A strong building requires a solid foundation. The same is …”.

The first text or image appears after 3.2 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.0 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Real visitors wait 1.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

The page becomes fully interactive after 6.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 90 ms to 87 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 17.4 MB in 84 requests on a phone: images 16.5 MB (18), scripts 426 KiB (24) and fonts 247 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example logo-full.png at 2,854 px wide, shown at 46 px. Resized copies would save about 181 KiB.

2 images (363 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.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 4.93 g of CO₂e: 592.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 8 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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

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

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

Your title is only 20 characters: “Calhoun Construction”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

Your meta description is 166 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 32 pages on calhounconstructs.com and 8 external pages.

/projects and /projects/featured-projects all use the title “Featured Projects | Calhoun Construction”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

/contact-us/bid-room, /about-us/calhoun-culture, /about-us/core-values, /about-us/meet-us, /about-us/community and /projects and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example /projects, whose canonical is /projects/featured-projects. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

/projects, /our-portfolio, /services/self-perform, /services/design-build and /services/renewable-energy took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://calhounconstructs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ENR_NATIONAL2024_ClientLogo_Top400.png.

5 of 12 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()”.

7 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.senserasystems.com/public/embed/3M885811891U (504).

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

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.

calhounconstructs.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.

calhounconstructs.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.

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 testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

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

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 268 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 Analytics, Google Tag Manager and LinkedIn Insight (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.

Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.