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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

4dtoday.com

4DToday.com - The Ultimate Information Source for 4D Developers

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

857 ms

Page Rendered

218 ms

4dtoday.com screenshot

About Website

Visit 4dtoday.com now to see the best up-to-date 4DToday content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about 4dtoday.com

4DToday.com is dedicated to providing the latest news, event, and product information to 4D database and web developers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 4dtoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 402 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 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

4dtoday.com performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

4dtoday.com

402 ms

styles.css

88 ms

toolsnew.js

95 ms

widgets.js

52 ms

ga.js

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original 4dtoday.com, 45% (31 requests) were made to D3j5xnahn3nuio.cloudfront.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (402 ms) belongs to the original domain 4dtoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.3 kB (61%)

Content Size

62.9 kB

After Optimization

24.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 4dtoday.com main page is 62.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 41.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 35.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 945 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. 4dtoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 945 B or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (52%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 4DToday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

4dtoday.com

4dtoday.com

402 ms

styles.css

styles.css

88 ms

toolsnew.js

toolsnew.js

95 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

52 ms

ga.js

ga.js

108 ms

header.gif

header.gif

108 ms

widget_iframe.7dae38096d06923d683a2a807172322a.html

widget_iframe.7dae38096d06923d683a2a807172322a.html

263 ms

sliver.gif

sliver.gif

138 ms

headspacer.gif

headspacer.gif

143 ms

title.gif

title.gif

138 ms

rightpiece.gif

rightpiece.gif

136 ms

frflag.gif

frflag.gif

136 ms

footerleft.gif

footerleft.gif

138 ms

footerrightsm.gif

footerrightsm.gif

145 ms

space.gif

space.gif

145 ms

topleftwhite.gif

topleftwhite.gif

158 ms

toprightwhite.gif

toprightwhite.gif

152 ms

title.gif

title.gif

138 ms

footerright.gif

footerright.gif

138 ms

title.gif

title.gif

138 ms

title.gif

title.gif

137 ms

greyline.gif

greyline.gif

243 ms

bluedot.gif

bluedot.gif

165 ms

title.gif

title.gif

180 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

206 ms

footermiddle.gif

footermiddle.gif

207 ms

d3.gif

d3.gif

238 ms

4.gif

4.gif

207 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

205 ms

m10.gif

m10.gif

242 ms

y2022.gif

y2022.gif

210 ms

title.gif

title.gif

240 ms

title.gif

title.gif

242 ms

title.gif

title.gif

245 ms

title.gif

title.gif

269 ms

footspacer.gif

footspacer.gif

251 ms

newfooter.gif

newfooter.gif

271 ms

directoryoff.gif

directoryoff.gif

116 ms

directoryon.gif

directoryon.gif

112 ms

classifiedsoff.gif

classifiedsoff.gif

111 ms

classifiedson.gif

classifiedson.gif

114 ms

archivesoff.gif

archivesoff.gif

121 ms

archiveson.gif

archiveson.gif

120 ms

referenceoff.gif

referenceoff.gif

120 ms

referenceon.gif

referenceon.gif

120 ms

homeoff.gif

homeoff.gif

120 ms

homeon.gif

homeon.gif

123 ms

directoryoff.gif

directoryoff.gif

154 ms

directoryon.gif

directoryon.gif

155 ms

classifiedsoff.gif

classifiedsoff.gif

161 ms

classifiedson.gif

classifiedson.gif

161 ms

archivesoff.gif

archivesoff.gif

160 ms

archiveson.gif

archiveson.gif

159 ms

referenceoff.gif

referenceoff.gif

164 ms

referenceon.gif

referenceon.gif

165 ms

homeoff.gif

homeoff.gif

177 ms

homeon.gif

homeon.gif

175 ms

rightpiece.gif

rightpiece.gif

177 ms

footerleft.gif

footerleft.gif

164 ms

footerrightsm.gif

footerrightsm.gif

191 ms

topleftwhite.gif

topleftwhite.gif

187 ms

toprightwhite.gif

toprightwhite.gif

213 ms

footerright.gif

footerright.gif

213 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

214 ms

footermiddle.gif

footermiddle.gif

214 ms

image

image

229 ms

survey

survey

244 ms

footer.gif

footer.gif

215 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

55 ms

Accessibility Review

4dtoday.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

4dtoday.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

4dtoday.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 4dtoday.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that 4dtoday.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

4dtoday.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 4DToday. 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: