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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

fourthelement.com

Fourth Element - Equipment for Adventure - Technical Diving

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

457 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Fourth Element content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about fourthelement.com

Fourth Element is dedicated to making the best gear for your adventures, from award winning drysuits and wetsuits to swimwear and rash guards made...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fourthelement.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fourthelement.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fourthelement.com

1044 ms

master.css

163 ms

page-slide.css

155 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

157 ms

liquid-slider.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Fourthelement.com, 8% (10 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Fourthelement.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (21%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fourthelement.com main page is 6.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 77.4 kB

  • Original 89.3 kB
  • After minification 65.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.2 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 77.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 161.8 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB

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. Fourth Element images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 848.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 309.3 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 848.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 261.8 kB

  • Original 308.4 kB
  • After minification 243.6 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Fourthelement.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 261.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (65%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fourth Element. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fourthelement.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

fourthelement.com best practices score

77

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fourthelement.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Fourthelement.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 Fourthelement.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 data is detected on the main page of Fourth Element. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: