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generalcontractor.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 25 October 202633 issues · 96 checks
This review found 33 issues worth fixing on generalcontractor.com, 8 of them high impact, across 96 checks. The most urgent: improve image delivery. 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
80BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 9, 2026 | 1.8 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.2 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.0 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.8 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.1 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 3.0 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 3.0 s |
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
Speed
Improve image delivery
2.3 s · 7.9 MB13 images could be 7.9 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.3 s faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 73
73/100Your mobile performance score is 73 (desktop: 90). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused JavaScript
600 ms · 247 KiBAbout 247 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.
Render-blocking requests
700 ms17 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 700 ms.
Google Tag Manager adds 427 ms
427 msGoogle Tag Manager costs a phone 427 ms of main-thread work and 511 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.
6 third-party services on the page
6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google CDN and customgpt.ai and others), adding 570 KiB and 451 ms of main-thread time.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 19 KiB2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (19 KiB).
Minify CSS
150 ms · 4 KiB4 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.
4 long tasks on the main thread
4 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 140 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Legacy JavaScript
9 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 9 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.0 s
A phone's processor spends 1.0 s on main-thread work while loading, 570 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 2 ms
2 msYour server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
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: 7.2 s
7.2 sYour largest element takes 7.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.
Time to Interactive: 7.5 s
7.5 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 7.5 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 2.8 s
2.8 sReal visitors wait 2.8 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 57% slower for real visitors
+57%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-17, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.0 s to 3.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 2.0 s
2.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
First Contentful Paint: 2.3 s
2.3 sThe first text or image appears after 2.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
4 checks passed
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Total Blocking Time: 110 ms
110 msScripts block the page for only 110 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Speed Index: 2.3 s
2.3 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.3 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.002
0.002The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.002, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 9.9 MB in 49 requests
9.9 MBYour homepage downloads 9.9 MB in 49 requests on a phone: images 9.1 MB (16), scripts 706 KiB (13) and stylesheets 42 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
5 images over 500 KB
5 images weigh 6.4 MB together. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.
6 images far larger than shown
3.4 MB6 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example bmc-hub-90-v2.png at 1,382 px wide, shown at 360 px. Resized copies would save about 3.4 MB.
9 images in older formats
9 images (4.4 MB) 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.
An image on the first screen is lazy-loaded
AAI-Harley-Davdison-Completion-Photo.jpg is on the first screen but marked loading="lazy", so the browser waits before fetching it and the page looks finished later. Load it eagerly (and give it fetchpriority="high" if it is the main image).
About 2.8 g of CO₂ per visit
2.82 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.82 g of CO₂e: 337.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
Malformed lists
Some lists contain elements other than list items, which screen readers announce wrongly.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (1 element)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 14 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 4 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (29 characters)
Your title is only 29 characters: “Home - Bob Moore Construction”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.
4 H1 headlines
There are 4 <h1> headlines (“Shift Your Perspective.”, “Shift Your Perspective.” and “Shift Your Perspective.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
Meta description is long (210 characters)
Your meta description is 210 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
44 internal links, 5 external
The homepage links to 44 pages on generalcontractor.com and 5 external pages.
4 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://generalcontractor.com/.
Structured data in place
Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, Organization, WebPage and WebSite.
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://generalcontractor.com/sitemap_index.xml.
AI search readiness
Organization data is thin (3 of 6 facts)
Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.
3 checks passed
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 (248 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes /llms.txt (99 KiB, 233 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
3 pages without a meta description
/portfolio, /contact and /article have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.
2 pages with very little text
/clients and /philanthropy 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 22 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 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.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
3 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Tap targets are thumb-sized
33 of 33 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
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 security.txt
There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.
5 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (generalcontractor.com).
Valid certificate (82 days left)
The certificate from Google Trust Services · WE1 verifies for generalcontractor.com and is valid for another 82 days.
http:// redirects to https
http://generalcontractor.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 29 links work
All 29 links checked from your homepage (24 internal, 5 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
generalcontractor.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
generalcontractor.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.
2 checks passed
Domain is 28 years old
28 yearsgeneralcontractor.com was registered in May 1998 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
Registered until May 2032
generalcontractor.com is registered until May 2032.
Content and conversion
Local business without LocalBusiness data
Your homepage shows a map but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.
Only about 237 words
The homepage has only about 237 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.
No opening hours
The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
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.
6 checks passed
Clear next step on the first screen
On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Contact”.
2 calls to action
The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Get in Touch”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 1 testimonial or review block and 2 trust badges.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 0 email links.
Phone number on the homepage
Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 90/100
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 with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 include:spf.sendinblue.com mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf-us.ppe-hosted.com -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1” and “k2”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
3 trackers load before any consent
3Before 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.
6 cookies set on arrival
6Opening the homepage sets 6 cookies (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.
12 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 12 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- CMS
- WordPress
- Framework
- jQuery
- Analytics
- Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
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