contractorsdirect.com website review

Your mobile performance score is 70. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

About 173 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

Shopify costs a phone 55 ms of main-thread work and 328 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.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Klaviyo, Shopify and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 776 KiB and 193 ms of main-thread time.

3 images could be 55 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.

About 53 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.

5 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (29 KiB).

1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 53 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Polyfills for old browsers add 19 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 9.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

The page becomes fully interactive after 9.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

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

Visually, the page fills in at 5.3 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 1.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 110 ms to 125 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Your homepage downloads 2.5 MB in 185 requests on a phone: scripts 825 KiB (70), images 738 KiB (25) and other files 633 KiB (65). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

5 images (374 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 0.70 g of CO₂e: 83.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 3 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Your meta description is 190 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

The homepage links to 151 pages on contractorsdirect.com and 0 external pages.

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.

/collections/tile-tools, /collections/tile-saws, /collections/diamond-blades, /collections/tile-leveling-systems, /collections/large-format-tile-tools and /collections/trowels and 1 other have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 110 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

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.

X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

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

contractorsdirect.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.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

The homepage has only about 200 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

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

DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be contractorsdirect.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

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 Tag Manager and Klaviyo (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 13 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.