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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 3 November 202641 issues · 101 checks

This review found 41 issues worth fixing on garney.com, 13 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 s1.4 sMay 16Oct 311.9 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
May 16, 20261.7 s
May 23, 20261.5 s
May 30, 20261.5 s
Jun 6, 20261.6 s
Jun 13, 20261.7 s
Jun 20, 20261.8 s
Jun 27, 20261.7 s
Jul 4, 20261.6 s
Jul 11, 20261.6 s
Jul 18, 20261.5 s
Jul 25, 20261.5 s
Aug 1, 20261.6 s
Aug 8, 20261.7 s
Aug 15, 20261.7 s
Aug 22, 20261.7 s
Aug 29, 20261.7 s
Sep 5, 20261.7 s
Sep 12, 20261.9 s
Sep 19, 20261.9 s
Sep 26, 20261.8 s
Oct 3, 20261.8 s
Oct 10, 20262.0 s
Oct 17, 20262.0 s
Oct 24, 20262.1 s
Oct 31, 20261.9 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
105 ms85 msMay 16Oct 3188 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
May 16, 202695 ms
May 23, 202691 ms
May 30, 202691 ms
Jun 6, 202695 ms
Jun 13, 202696 ms
Jun 20, 2026103 ms
Jun 27, 202696 ms
Jul 4, 202696 ms
Jul 11, 202696 ms
Jul 18, 202695 ms
Jul 25, 202692 ms
Aug 1, 202690 ms
Aug 8, 202688 ms
Aug 15, 202688 ms
Aug 22, 202688 ms
Aug 29, 202692 ms
Sep 5, 202689 ms
Sep 12, 202694 ms
Sep 19, 202691 ms
Sep 26, 202694 ms
Oct 3, 202693 ms
Oct 10, 202690 ms
Oct 17, 202691 ms
Oct 24, 202687 ms
Oct 31, 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

8 to fix53
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    3.5 s · 680 KiB

    About 680 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    2.3 s · 459 KiB

    52 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (459 KiB).

  • Improve image delivery

    1.6 s · 435 KiB

    3 images could be 435 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 53

    53/100

    Your mobile performance score is 53. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Vimeo and Adobe Tag Manager and others), adding 4.4 MB and 455 ms of main-thread time.

  • Render-blocking requests

    600 ms

    17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 600 ms.

  • Vimeo adds 103 ms

    103 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 103 ms of main-thread work and 3.6 MB 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.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 243 ms

    243 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 243 ms of main-thread work and 562 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.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 29 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 29 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

  • 4 long tasks on the main thread

    4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 150 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    65 KiB

    About 65 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 803 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 19 ms

    19 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 19 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

11 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    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.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 18.3 s

    18.3 s

    Your largest element takes 18.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “BUILDING THE FUTURE OF WATER.”.

  • Time to Interactive: 18.4 s

    18.4 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.4 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 5.1 s

    5.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 5.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 7.9 s

    7.9 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Real-user LCP: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

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

  • Largest content (LCP) got 25% slower for real visitors

    +25%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Real-user FCP: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 2.2 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.7 s

    1.7 s

    Real visitors wait 1.7 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 257 ms

    257 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 257 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    -6%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 95 ms to 88 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

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  • Real-user INP: 97 ms

    97 ms

    Real visitors wait 97 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.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 5.8 MB in 107 requests

    5.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.8 MB in 107 requests on a phone: other files 2.8 MB (31), scripts 1.4 MB (34) and images 1.3 MB (18). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (45 KiB) is 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.

  • About 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.64 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.64 g of CO₂e: 197.2 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 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

2 to fixGoogle 9697
  • 1 text element with low contrast

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

  • 1 form field without a label

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

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  • Every image has alt text

    All 1 image in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 40 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 41 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 1 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 9288
  • Title is short (19 characters)

    Your title is only 19 characters: “Garney Construction”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No social preview image

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

  • 3 links crawlers can't follow

    3 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • 56 internal links, 11 external

    The homepage links to 56 pages on garney.com and 11 external pages.

6 checks passed
  • Meta description: 141 characters

    Your meta description is 141 characters: “Building sustainable futures with the world's most precious resources - water and people. Industry leading water and wa…”.

  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Building the future of water.”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.garney.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, WebPage and WebSite.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.garney.com/sitemap.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.

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  • 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 (290 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

1 to fix95
  • 13 pages without a meta description

    /projects, /collaborative-delivery, /p3, /about/services, /about/safety and /about/leadership and 7 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 1 page with very little text

    /about/board-of-directors has 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 25 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • 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.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 5888
  • 2 third-party cookies

    2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “%c%d font-size:0;color:transparent NaN”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

2 checks passed
  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    12 of 13 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

4 to fix69
  • 1 broken link to your own pages

    1 link from your homepage to your own site is broken, for example https://www.garney.com/?page_id=289 (404).

  • 1 broken external link

    1 link to other sites is dead, for example https://www.garneyone.com/ (404).

  • 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 (garney.com).

  • Valid certificate (76 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YR1 verifies for garney.com and is valid for another 76 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • HTTP/2

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

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    garney.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

    garney.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.

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  • Domain is 29 years old

    29 years

    garney.com was registered in Nov 1996 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Nov 2027

    garney.com is registered until Nov 2027.

Content and conversion

5 to fix50
  • 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.

  • A 9-field form

    Your longest form asks for 9 fields (6 required). Every extra field lowers completion.

  • 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.

  • Only about 163 words

    The homepage has only about 163 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

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  • 3 calls to action

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

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be garney.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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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  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.myconnectwise.net include:sendgrid.net include:mailgun.org ip4:13…”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “dkim”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, 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.

  • 15 cookies set on arrival

    15

    Opening the homepage sets 15 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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.

  • 20 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 20 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

  • It loads jQuery 1.12.4, older than 3.5 (which fixed known security holes).

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Vultr

Hiring

Hiring
1 open role
Job board
careers page

Company

Founded
1961

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