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Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thefourth.ca

The Fourth Media | Web Design and SEO | Penticton, Calgary, Kelowna

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

541 ms

Page Rendered

587 ms

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About Website

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Bring your website to the next level. The Fourth Media specializes in designing websites for performance, mobile devices, and search engines.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefourth.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefourth.ca performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefourth.ca

101 ms

www.thefourth.ca

74 ms

www.thefourth.ca

99 ms

js

80 ms

public.1692638477.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Thefourth.ca, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (101 ms) belongs to the original domain Thefourth.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thefourth.ca main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 8.7 kB, which is 17% 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 36.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. The Fourth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Fourth. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thefourth.ca

thefourth.ca

101 ms

www.thefourth.ca

www.thefourth.ca

74 ms

www.thefourth.ca

www.thefourth.ca

99 ms

js

js

80 ms

public.1692638477.css

public.1692638477.css

16 ms

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f309c80e-67c0-4e55-afa5-aef5d3cc1171.css

41 ms

css

css

40 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

21 ms

public.min.1692638477.js

public.min.1692638477.js

41 ms

logo-blue.svg

logo-blue.svg

43 ms

xm-logo.svg

xm-logo.svg

41 ms

hp-who.jpg

hp-who.jpg

40 ms

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39 ms

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tarik.jpg

39 ms

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renee.jpg

48 ms

courtney.jpg

courtney.jpg

54 ms

kevin.jpg

kevin.jpg

48 ms

trisha.jpg

trisha.jpg

54 ms

nicole.jpg

nicole.jpg

51 ms

brandy.jpg

brandy.jpg

71 ms

dylan.jpg

dylan.jpg

72 ms

luxe.png

luxe.png

72 ms

inflight.png

inflight.png

73 ms

icons-public.svg

icons-public.svg

23 ms

penticton-web-designer.jpg

penticton-web-designer.jpg

28 ms

hp-online_presence.jpg

hp-online_presence.jpg

27 ms

hp-no_themes.jpg

hp-no_themes.jpg

26 ms

hp-love.jpg

hp-love.jpg

28 ms

hp-services.jpg

hp-services.jpg

31 ms

total-bkg.jpg

total-bkg.jpg

33 ms

luxe-bkg.jpg

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33 ms

inflight-bkg.jpg

inflight-bkg.jpg

31 ms

kelowna-social-media.jpg

kelowna-social-media.jpg

32 ms

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15 ms

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19 ms

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48 ms

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81 ms

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44 ms

Accessibility Review

thefourth.ca accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

thefourth.ca best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thefourth.ca SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Thefourth.ca 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 Thefourth.ca 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

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