dreamhost.com website review

About 335 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

4 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.6 s.

Your mobile performance score is 41. Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

11 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (245 KiB).

11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 490 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

About 101 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

A phone's processor spends 3.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 2.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

The page has 2,328 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

7 third-party services load with your homepage (Convert Insights, Optanon and Trust Pilot and others), adding 344 KiB and 219 ms of main-thread time.

2 images could be 102 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

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.

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 9.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

The page becomes fully interactive after 11.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 1.1 s in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Visually, the page fills in at 6.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Real visitors wait 2.6 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Real visitors wait 263 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

Real visitors see the first content after 2.4 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

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

The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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

Your homepage downloads 8.6 MB in 101 requests on a phone: media 6.8 MB (3), scripts 1.3 MB (59) and images 158 KiB (11). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.44 g of CO₂e: 292.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

Elements with visible text labels do not have matching accessible names. (15 elements).

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

2 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 130 pages on dreamhost.com and 31 external pages.

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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 52 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

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

dreamhost.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.

dreamhost.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.

Social proof on the homepage: a star rating. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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

The homepage carries about 2,419 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 and Google Tag Manager (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (OneTrust) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 11 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.