Site quality: skylinefirestopping.com vs the Tocharian competitors' sites vs a $10k website

Measured 2026-08-23 in a real browser (Playwright, desktop 1366px and iPhone 13), same probe on every site.

Site	Load (ms)	Transfer	Rendered text (chars)	Images / missing alt	JS errors	Forms / tel links	Structured data	llms.txt	Pages
skylinefirestopping.com	1,074	35 KB	6,142 (10,156 without JS)	21 / 2	0	1 / 4	Organization, WebSite, WebPage, VideoObject, ImageObject	yes	32
bigdataboutique.com	1,695	334 KB	10,250	88 / 9	0	1 / 0	WebSite, Person, Service, FAQPage (service page)	yes	410
qavi.tech	400	1,082 KB	6,955	94 / 0	0	0 / 7	Organization, Place, Offer	yes	small
pureinsights.com	1,966	1,032 KB	3,856	20 / 6	1	1 / 0	WebPage, Breadcrumb (no H1)	yes	7 sitemaps
nextbrick.com	673	700 KB	1,551	21 / 0	0	0 / 1	Organization, WebSite	yes	880
crestdata.ai	2,201	2,010 KB	5,454	49 / 19	0	4 / 0	Organization, FAQPage (no H1)	yes	WordPress
meteorops.com	1,402	898 KB	12,447	22 / 2	0	0 / 0	Organization, Service	yes + agents.md	657
sematext.com	850	619 KB	7,206	16 / 16	1	0 / 0	WebPage, Breadcrumb	yes	large
mimacom.com	1,607	675 KB	3,203	28 / 0	1	0 / 0	none	no	904
oktopeak.com	1,177	3,307 KB	16,033	45 / 5	1	1 / 0	Organization, FAQPage, AggregateRating	yes	small
squareshift.co	1,651	1,945 KB	3,793	78 / 1	0	1 / 0	Organization, FAQPage, Article	yes	Wix
tocharian.eu (prospect)	1,229	83 KB	10,164 (75 without JS)	0 / 0	0	0 / 0	Organization, SoftwareApplication	no	SPA

What a $10k website buys (market research, 2026)

Bootstrap Creative puts 10–30 page B2B sites at $10k–$25k; Clutch's small-business average is $12k–$15k; Bigfork's UK lead-gen site is £8k–£25k. At the $10k end that is a template-based custom design, 8–15 pages, copy billed separately or thin, basic on-page SEO, a contact form, a CMS. Not included: strategy, a page per buyer question, AI-citation engineering (structured data per page, llms.txt, crawler-readable text), lead capture beyond a form, credential checks, monthly measurement.

Where Skyline sits

Lighter and faster than every competitor site: 35 KB against 334 KB–3.3 MB; 1.07 s load, zero JS errors, no mobile overflow.
Built for the engines: readable without JavaScript (10,156 chars), 32 pages in the sitemap, llms.txt, VideoObject schema, AI-crawler policy in robots.txt. Only MeteorOps is comparably deliberate.
Built to convert: founder video with transcript, lead-magnet download, four click-to-call links, a credential register behind every badge.
Gaps: two images without alt text; one question-style heading on the home page where the cited competitors carry FAQ blocks (BigData Boutique, Crest Data, Oktopeak, SquareShift); no AggregateRating/reviews schema.
Versus a $10k site: a $10k site matches Skyline on look and page count; it does not match the strategy underneath, the per-question pages, the crawler readiness, the lead capture, or the measurement. Skyline's own result (named in 30/30 Perplexity answers on its top buyer question within sixty days) is the difference those carry.