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foremostco.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 23 October 202614 issues · 83 checks
This review found 14 issues worth fixing on foremostco.com, 4 of them high impact, across 83 checks. The most urgent: 67 text elements with low contrast. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
93AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideOne score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
foremostco.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.
Speed
Render-blocking requests
400 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 400 ms.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 88 KiB4 images could be 88 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 · 12 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 12 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 76 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
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.
1 third-party service on the page
1 third-party service load with your homepage (supabase.co), adding 28 KiB and 0 ms of main-thread time.
3 checks passed
Mobile performance score: 96
96/100Your mobile performance score is 96 (desktop: 100). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).
Main-thread work: 1.1 s
A phone's processor spends 1.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 493 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 5 ms
5 msYour server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 2.8 s
2.8 sYour largest element takes 2.8 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s.
Not enough real-visitor data yet
Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.
5 checks passed
Time to Interactive: 3.6 s
3.6 sThe page is fully interactive after 3.6 s.
First Contentful Paint: 1.2 s
1.2 sThe first text or image appears after 1.2 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Speed Index: 1.7 s
1.7 sVisually, the page fills in at 1.7 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 18 ms
18 msScripts block the page for only 18 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.2 g of CO₂ per visit
0.16 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.16 g of CO₂e: 19.1 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 576 KiB in 34 requests
576 KiBYour homepage downloads 576 KiB in 34 requests on a phone: scripts 336 KiB (21), images 147 KiB (7) and fonts 34 KiB (1). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
67 text elements with low contrast
67 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (2 elements)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark (1 element)
Main landmark should not be contained in another landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Document should not have more than one main landmark (1 element)
Document should not have more than one main landmark: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 31 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
42 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 4 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
27 internal links, 6 external
The homepage links to 27 pages on foremostco.com and 6 external pages.
8 checks passed
Meta description: 158 characters
Your meta description is 158 characters: “Premium tropical foliage & flowering plants for commercial growers. Liners, cuttings & starter material delivered with …”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “WHERE TROPICALS SHINE”.
Title: 56 characters
Your title is a healthy 56 characters: “Foremost | Wholesale Tropical Plant Starter Material USA”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.foremostco.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: LocalBusiness, Organization and WebSite.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
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://www.foremostco.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
Parts of the site are closed to 5 AI crawlers
Your robots.txt lets ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot), ChatGPT (ChatGPT-User), Claude search (Claude-SearchBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot) and Perplexity (Perplexity-User) read the homepage but closes other sections to them, so answers about those pages can't cite you.
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
Organization data: 6 of 6 facts
Your Organization JSON-LD gives name, url, logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (721 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
1 page without a title
/our-tropical-plants/foliage has no <title>, so Google invents the link text in results.
1 page without a meta description
/our-tropical-plants/foliage has no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
4 pages with very little text
/blogs, /availability, /fiscal-calendar and /hardiness-zone-map have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 16 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Best practices
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
10 of 11 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
No security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
7 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (foremostco.com).
Valid certificate (30 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR2 verifies for foremostco.com and is valid for another 30 days.
Protected from clickjacking
X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://foremostco.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 26 links work
All 26 links checked from your homepage (20 internal, 6 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
DNSSEC is off
foremostco.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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 30 years old
30 yearsforemostco.com was registered in Sep 1996 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Certificate issuers are restricted
CAA records allow only letsencrypt.org, pki.goog, sectigo.com and globalsign.com to issue certificates for foremostco.com, so a mis-issued certificate from anyone else is refused.
Registered until Sep 2034
foremostco.com is registered until Sep 2034.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
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 social proof
No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No risk reducer
No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.
About 717 words of copy
The homepage carries about 717 words of visible text.
5 checks passed
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “CONTACT US”, “Talk to a Sales Rep” and “Subscribe”.
1 short form
A short form (2 fields at most) is right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
LocalBusiness structured data
Your homepage describes the business with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants can read its address, hours and phone reliably.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 85/100
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF in place (~all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 ip4:12.220.28.40/27 ip4:50.185.183.144/29 ip4:12.78.93.248/30 ip4:50.73.5.112/29 ip4:170.55.179.56/29 ip4:24.173…”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”, “s1” and “s2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
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.
2 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- Next.js
- Hosting
- Vercel
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Go beyond the website
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