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4sq.com

Unlocking Powerful Consumer Connections with Location | FSQ

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

248 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed 4sq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

4sq.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

foursquare.com

107 ms

master-8678296d3052f88228c784124e4f152b.css

179 ms

new-homepage-1d65e0a1f716786ee62df32c657a3cd5.css

151 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min-b8d64d0bc142b3f670cc0611b0aebcae.js

114 ms

root-769b42a8d1a484c702db4f44bfd715e0.js

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original 4sq.com, 19% (21 requests) were made to Ss0.4sqi.net and 6% (7 requests) were made to Ss1.4sqi.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (583 ms) relates to the external source A.tiles.mapbox.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

988.4 kB

In fact, the total size of 4sq.com main page is 2.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 10.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 38.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 46.8 kB

  • Original 621.4 kB
  • After minification 574.6 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. 4 Sq images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 348.8 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 347.0 kB

  • Original 401.1 kB
  • After minification 400.1 kB
  • After compression 54.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. 4sq.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 347.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (26%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 4 Sq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

4sq.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 4sq.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that 4sq.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 4 Sq. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: