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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 19 October 202637 issues · 93 checks

This review found 37 issues worth fixing on 4cats.com, 10 of them high impact, across 93 checks. The most urgent: reduce unused JavaScript. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.4 s1.1 sApr 25Oct 101.2 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 25, 20261.3 s
May 2, 20261.3 s
May 9, 20261.4 s
May 16, 20261.4 s
May 23, 20261.4 s
May 30, 20261.4 s
Jun 6, 20261.3 s
Jun 13, 20261.4 s
Jun 20, 20261.4 s
Jun 27, 20261.3 s
Jul 4, 20261.3 s
Jul 11, 20261.2 s
Jul 18, 20261.2 s
Jul 25, 20261.2 s
Aug 1, 20261.2 s
Aug 8, 20261.2 s
Aug 15, 20261.2 s
Aug 22, 20261.2 s
Aug 29, 20261.2 s
Sep 5, 20261.3 s
Sep 12, 20261.3 s
Sep 19, 20261.3 s
Sep 26, 20261.2 s
Oct 3, 20261.2 s
Oct 10, 20261.2 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
97 ms80 msApr 25Oct 1095 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 25, 202686 ms
May 2, 202687 ms
May 9, 202686 ms
May 16, 202684 ms
May 23, 202682 ms
May 30, 202682 ms
Jun 6, 202684 ms
Jun 13, 202685 ms
Jun 20, 202686 ms
Jun 27, 202687 ms
Jul 4, 202687 ms
Jul 11, 202687 ms
Jul 18, 202688 ms
Jul 25, 202688 ms
Aug 1, 202688 ms
Aug 8, 202689 ms
Aug 15, 202689 ms
Aug 22, 202690 ms
Aug 29, 202691 ms
Sep 5, 202692 ms
Sep 12, 202693 ms
Sep 19, 202694 ms
Sep 26, 202694 ms
Oct 3, 202695 ms
Oct 10, 202695 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of 4cats.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. 4cats.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. 4cats.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. 4cats.com at 1.2 s1.2 s
  4. 4cats.com at 1.6 s1.6 s
  5. 4cats.com at 2.0 s2.0 s
  6. 4cats.com at 2.4 s2.4 s
  7. 4cats.com at 2.7 s2.7 s
  8. 4cats.com at 3.1 s3.1 s

4cats.com does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

11 to fix43
  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.6 s · 539 KiB

    About 539 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.6 s faster on a phone.

  • Mobile performance score: 43

    43/100

    Your mobile performance score is 43 (desktop: 58). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 4.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 4.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Improve image delivery

    750 ms · 991 KiB

    23 images could be 991 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, cloudfront.net and shop.app and others), adding 2.4 MB and 1.0 s of main-thread time.

  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    650 ms · 249 KiB

    26 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (249 KiB).

  • Shopify adds 642 ms

    642 ms

    Shopify costs a phone 642 ms of main-thread work and 1.7 MB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Render-blocking requests

    400 ms

    6 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 400 ms.

  • 2,928 HTML elements

    The page has 2,928 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • cloudfront.net adds 256 ms

    256 ms

    cloudfront.net costs a phone 256 ms of main-thread work and 339 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • 7 long tasks on the main thread

    7 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 273 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Minify JavaScript

    150 ms · 9 KiB

    9 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    45 KiB

    About 45 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    14 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 14 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

1 checks passed
  • Server response: 15 ms

    15 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 15 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

5 to fix100
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 21.5 s

    21.5 s

    Your largest element takes 21.5 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image.

  • Time to Interactive: 29.2 s

    29.2 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 29.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 7.1 s

    7.1 s

    The first text or image appears after 7.1 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 10.1 s

    10.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 10.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Total Blocking Time: 517 ms

    517 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 517 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Tap response (INP) got 10% slower for real visitors

    +10%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 86 ms to 95 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    -9%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-10, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.3 s to 1.2 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

7 checks passed
  • Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).

  • Real-user LCP: 1.4 s

    1.4 s

    Real visitors wait 1.4 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 95 ms

    95 ms

    Real visitors wait 95 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.01

    0.01

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.01 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.0 s

    1.0 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user TTFB: 424 ms

    424 ms

    Real visitors wait 424 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix33
  • Page weight: 5.7 MB in 520 requests

    5.7 MB

    Your homepage downloads 5.7 MB in 520 requests on a phone: scripts 2.2 MB (262), images 2.0 MB (33) and other files 876 KiB (173). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • About 1.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    1.61 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 1.61 g of CO₂e: 192.9 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

4 to fixGoogle 8785
  • Inline text spacing must be adjustable with custom stylesheets (1 element)

    Inline text spacing must be adjustable with custom stylesheets: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • Hidden but focusable

    4 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h1 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

2 checks passed
  • Every image has alt text

    All 32 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.

  • 12 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 14 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 12 passed and 2 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

4 to fixGoogle 9283
  • Title is short (5 characters)

    Your title is only 5 characters: “4Cats”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • 13 links crawlers can't follow

    13 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.

  • One H1 headline

    Your <h1> is empty.

  • 196 internal links, 7 external

    The homepage links to 196 pages on 4cats.com and 7 external pages.

5 checks passed
  • Meta description: 147 characters

    Your meta description is 147 characters: “Art classes, art workshops, art birthday parties and art supplies, gifts and art kits in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary fo…”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://4cats.com/.

  • Structured data in place

    Structured data found: BreadcrumbList, ItemList, Organization and WebSite.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://4cats.com/sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • Organization data is thin (2 of 6 facts)

    Your Organization JSON-LD is missing logo, sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

2 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

  • llms.txt published

    The site publishes /llms.txt (6 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.

Other pages

100
  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 82 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

1 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9289
  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'parentNode')”.

  • 1 distorted image

    1 image is displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so it looks stretched or squashed.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

100
  • Short HSTS lifetime

    HSTS is set, but max-age is 91 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

  • No Referrer-Policy

    No Referrer-Policy header, so full URLs can leak to the sites you link to.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • Deprecated X-XSS-Protection

    X-XSS-Protection is set to “1; mode=block”; the header is deprecated and can introduce bugs. Use 0 or remove it.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (4cats.com).

  • Valid certificate (67 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for 4cats.com and is valid for another 67 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • Content-Security-Policy set

    A Content-Security-Policy is set, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://4cats.com redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 44 links work

    All 44 links checked from your homepage (40 internal, 4 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    4cats.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

  • DNSSEC is off

    4cats.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

2 checks passed
  • Domain is 20 years old

    20 years

    4cats.com was registered in Jan 2006 through eNom, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Jan 2027

    4cats.com is registered until Jan 2027.

Content and conversion

6 to fix61
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • Local business without LocalBusiness data

    Your homepage shows a street address but no LocalBusiness JSON-LD, so Google and AI assistants have to guess your address, hours and phone from the page text.

  • No phone number on the homepage

    A local customer looking to call finds no phone number on the homepage. Add one, ideally as a tap-to-call link.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 1 trust badge. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • Only about 25 words

    The homepage has only about 25 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No opening hours

    The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

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  • 9 calls to action

    The homepage has 9 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”, “Try the Wheel (One-Time Workshop)” and “Gift shop”.

  • 5 short forms

    5 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 0 phone links and 3 email links.

Email authentication

2 to fix60
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be 4cats.com is still delivered. Add a report address, check the reports, then move to quarantine.

  • No DKIM key on the usual selectors

    We found no DKIM key on the selectors the big email providers use. If you send through one of them, turning on DKIM signing improves delivery.

  • Email authentication score: 60/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

1 checks passed
  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:emailsrvr.com include:servers.mcsv.net ~all”.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 3 trackers load before any consent

    3

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 13 cookies set on arrival

    13

    Opening the homepage sets 13 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 25 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 25 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

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