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tstconstruction.group website review

Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 21 October 202630 issues · 76 checks

This review found 30 issues worth fixing on tstconstruction.group, 12 of them high impact, across 76 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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

Full-page screenshot of tstconstruction.group (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. tstconstruction.group at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. tstconstruction.group at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. tstconstruction.group at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. tstconstruction.group at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. tstconstruction.group at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. tstconstruction.group at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. tstconstruction.group at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. tstconstruction.group at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

6 to fix59
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    13.1 s · 12.6 MB

    24 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (12.6 MB).

  • Improve image delivery

    7.8 s · 3.5 MB

    12 images could be 3.5 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 7.8 s faster on a phone.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.5 s

    10 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.5 s.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    1.2 s · 263 KiB

    About 263 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 59

    59/100

    Your mobile performance score is 59 (desktop: 83). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    600 ms · 61 KiB

    About 61 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • 4 third-party services on the page

    4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Google Fonts and Adobe TypeKit and others), adding 183 KiB and 217 ms of main-thread time.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    150 ms · 12 KiB

    Polyfills 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.

  • 3 long tasks on the main thread

    3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 126 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.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

  • Minify CSS

    2 KiB

    2 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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  • Main-thread work: 0.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 316 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix63
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 18.5 s

    18.5 s

    Your largest element takes 18.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “WE MAKE IT EASY! TST Construction is a Class A General Cont…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 18.6 s

    18.6 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 18.6 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 7.5 s

    7.5 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.5 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 3.3 s

    3.3 s

    The first text or image appears after 3.3 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • 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.

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  • Total Blocking Time: 195 ms

    195 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 195 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

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

Images and page weight

5 to fix28
  • Page weight: 12.8 MB in 33 requests

    12.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 12.8 MB in 33 requests on a phone: media 7.7 MB (1), images 4.6 MB (12) and scripts 443 KiB (8). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image over 500 KB

    team-discussion-among-framing.jpg weighs 811 KiB. On a phone connection a single image that size takes seconds.

  • 10 images in older formats

    10 images (1.9 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.

  • 8 images below the first screen load straight away

    8 images further down the page (1.0 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • 1 image far larger than shown

    96 KiB

    1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example Google_Maps_icon_2020.svg.png at 1,428 px wide, shown at 17 px. Resized copies would save about 96 KiB.

  • About 3.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    3.64 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 3.64 g of CO₂e: 436.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 9694
  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (18 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 18 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text (6 elements)

    Alternative text of images should not be repeated as text: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 11 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 27 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 32 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 27 passed and 5 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

3 to fixGoogle 10083
  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • No structured data

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

  • No social preview image

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

  • 34 internal links, 6 external

    The homepage links to 34 pages on tstconstruction.group and 6 external pages.

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  • Meta description: 150 characters

    Your meta description is 150 characters: “TST Construction, a Class A General Contractor, concentrating in Federal contracting sectors, delivers sustainable, lar…”.

  • Title: 49 characters

    Your title is a healthy 49 characters: “TST Construction :: Commercial Class A Contractor”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://tstconstruction.group/.

  • 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://tstconstruction.group/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 https://tstconstruction.group/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
  • 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 (269 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

100
  • 1 page with very little text

    https://tstconstruction.group/employee-portal-1 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 18 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.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • 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

1 to fixGoogle 10093
  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    6 of 6 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

4 to fix69
  • 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.

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • 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 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.

4 checks passed
  • 5 calls to action

    The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “JOIN OUR TEAM”, “Contact Us” and “CONTACT US”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: 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.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 2 trackers load before any consent

    2

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads 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.

  • 2 cookies set on arrival

    2

    Opening the homepage sets 2 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.

  • 5 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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