Reno web development for the small faults behind the glass.

Blocking time adds up the moments a page is too busy to answer a tap while it loads. Here it's about the same as our 31-city sample, 239 ms against 277 ms, on one lab run per site. Two other readings deserve a look, on small counts. 8 of 33 sites have a button with no accessible name, 24% against 11%, which often means an icon with no words behind it. 44 of 44 sites load over HTTPS, but 5 of 43 failed the check for being fully on it, 12% against 4%, often an older image or script still fetched the old way. Console errors are about level, 37% and 38%. We'd call those small jobs. Mixed content is often a few lines, and a page that won't answer a tap, in our view, usually wants fewer scripts.

Built features are thin on the ground. Booking tools turned up on 3 of 44 homepages and chat on 3. Forms are more common at 18, though some may be newsletter sign-ups. The 13 health sites have 1 booking tool between them. The 13 professional-services sites have 0. Beyond the homepage, trade, transportation and utilities and manufacturing are both on Washoe County's list of main industries. We'd expect firms in that world to run on orders, schedules and documents. A web application can give a logistics firm a tracking screen or a manufacturer a place for quote requests. They start at $575, depending on complexity. Native iOS and Android mobile apps start at $3,750.

Platform isn't the story here. 21 of 44 sites run WordPress, at a median speed score of 65. The 13 we couldn't tie to a known platform post 64, which is close. So we'd fix what you have before changing what it runs on. Connecting the tools you already pay for may be the whole job. The Reno report has the wider numbers. Send us the page, or the spreadsheet, that annoys you most, and we'd tell you what we'd do about it.