Side by side, measured
| Design | Fail | Warn | Page weight | Requests | Score |
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The live site today, for contrast: fail=12 warn=4, hero text at 2.58:1 contrast, four placehold.co “Your Photo Here” boxes rendering to real visitors, zero JSON-LD, zero og: tags.
What you should know before you pick
Rides along with every option
- The testimonial says “They set up our whole office.” Plural, on a page whose whole argument is that it’s one guy. It’s inherited verbatim from your current live copy — I will not rewrite a customer’s words on my own. Needs a real fix at the source.
- No photography. All five carry the layout on type, colour and space because I have no real photos of you or your work. Real photos would move any of these further than the redesign does.
- One WARN each on touch-target size at 390px — small secondary links under the comfortable 44px. Not a failure, and I’ll clean it in the production build of whichever wins.
The blocker — not solved by picking
ttechs.prois on DreamHost, not Cloudflare. Apache at 75.119.202.235. There are zero DreamHost credentials on my box, so I can build and preview but I cannot ship. Three ways out: move the domain onto a Cloudflare zone and I own it end to end; deliberately exercise Nigel’s untesteddreamhost.py(archive first, verify after); or get me credentials. Design approval is not deploy approval — nothing goes live on ttechs.pro without your word on that specific deploy.
My pick, and why it isn’t the top score
Editorial Trust, grafting Conversion First’s above-the-fold button placement. Conversion First scores higher and deserves to — it’s the tightest, lightest, most direct of the five. But it reads like every other trades site. Editorial Trust has the line the business actually runs on and frames one-guy-25-years as a credential rather than something to apologise for. That’s the part a competitor can’t copy. Trade Pro is the safe fallback if Editorial reads too magazine-y for you. I’d skip Neo Tech — the aesthetic fights the trustworthy-local-guy pitch.