Employment background screening

    3rd Degree Screening

    3rd Degree Screening is a background check company for employers. Its website, 3rddegreescreening.com, is built and hosted on Hiveku. The domain has been connected to Hiveku since July 2026.

    • Council Bluffs, Iowa
    • On Hiveku since July 2026

    About 3rd Degree Screening

    Industry
    Employment background screening
    Where
    Council Bluffs, Iowa

    The company started in 1996 as Metro Background Solutions and became 3rd Degree Screening, Inc. in 2012. It provides pre-employment background checks, drug testing and related screening to businesses. Its headquarters is in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with an office in Overland Park, Kansas. It serves employers of every size, landlords and property managers, and people checking their own record.

    What the site does

    The site walks employers through 21 screening services, 21 industries and 4 solutions. A pricing page lists five packages with a price per check. A state library holds 51 guides to background check rules, with a clickable map and a search box. Visitors can request a sample report, send a message or join the newsletter through forms on the site.

    • Published pricing

      The pricing page lists five screening packages, each with a price per check, and explains which government and third-party fees are passed through.

    • State law library

      A "Background Check Laws by State" library has 51 state guides (the 50 states and Washington DC), a clickable US map and a search box.

    • Service, industry and solution pages

      The menus link to 21 service pages, 21 industry pages and 4 solution pages, from criminal record checks to drug screening.

    • Blog

      The blog has a search box and 12 topic filters. The homepage shows the three newest articles, and the sitemap lists 71 articles.

    • Sample report request

      A three-field form on the homepage (full name, work email, company) asks for a sample identity verification report.

    • Contact form

      A seven-field form at the foot of the homepage asks for name, company, work email, phone, yearly hires, industry and a message. The send button turns on after a security check.

    • Newsletter signup

      A first name, last name and work email form invites visitors to subscribe.

    • Links to client tools

      The site links to the client login, an API reference and a clickable platform demo.

    How Hiveku helps

    What Hiveku does for 3rd Degree Screening's site, as anyone can check on the live site.

    Built and hosted on Hiveku

    The site is built and hosted on Hiveku and served through Amazon CloudFront over HTTPS.

    Hosting: local preview, development, staging and production for one site, in one view.
    • Every environment for one site, with backups, redirects, cron jobs and custom code a click away.
    • Each environment's resources: the live preview and its secrets.

    Forms connected to Hiveku

    The contact, sample-report and newsletter forms are connected to Hiveku's form capture.

    Forms: every form on the site captured, with submissions and completion rate.
    • Submissions, forms, starts and completion at a glance.

    Pages and posts on one site

    The state guides and the 71-article blog live on the same Hiveku site.

    The site's pages and blog posts in one list, each with its address, status and last update.

    Also on the site

    • Cookie consent

      The cookie banner, with Accept all and Decline all, is Hiveku's consent tool.

    The Hiveku screens on this page use sample data. They show the features, not 3rd Degree Screening's account.

    The numbers

    Measured on the live homepage on October 15, 2026.

    First byte
    261 ms
    The server's first response
    First content
    360 ms
    First text or image on screen
    Largest content
    360 ms
    The biggest element drawn
    Page weight
    1.1 MB
    Homepage, analytics not counted
    HTTPS
    Yes
    Served through Amazon CloudFront
    Phone screen
    Fits
    390 px wide, no sideways scrolling
    Sitemap
    200
    pages listed in sitemap.xml
    Structured data
    4 types
    Organization, Corporation, WebSite, ProfessionalService

    In words

    On 15 October 2026 the homepage sent its first byte in 261 ms, and its first and largest content appeared at 360 ms (median of three desktop loads, no throttling). The page transferred about 1.1 MB, not counting analytics scripts. It fits a 390-pixel phone screen with no sideways scrolling. Its sitemap lists 200 pages, and it publishes a robots.txt file and structured data for the organization, the website and the business.

    Measured by Hiveku on October 15, 2026: the homepage loaded 3 times in a desktop browser (1440 x 900, empty cache, no network throttling) with analytics and tracking scripts blocked. Each time is the median of those loads. The phone check used a 390 x 844 screen.

    Hosting

    Domain on Hiveku since
    July 27, 2026
    Built and hosted on
    Hiveku
    Served from
    Amazon CloudFront, over HTTPS

    The site, page by page

    Captured on October 15, 2026. Click any picture to see it larger.

    Visit 3rddegreescreening.com
    The pricing page promises no monthly minimums, set-up fees or term commitments.
    The state resource library, with 51 state guides.
    The blog, with a search box and topic filters.
    Where these facts come from

    Every sentence on this page comes from 3rd Degree Screening's public website, from Hiveku's hosting records (the date the domain was connected and whether the site moved from Webflow), or from Hiveku's own check of the live site on October 15, 2026. Nothing comes from inside 3rd Degree Screening's Hiveku account.

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