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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 18 October 202636 issues · 99 checks

This review found 36 issues worth fixing on 4frontsolutions.com, 11 of them high impact, across 99 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. 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

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Speed

8 to fix54
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    5.7 s · 1.2 MB

    37 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.2 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    6.0 s

    9 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 6.0 s.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    3.3 s · 475 KiB

    About 475 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 3.3 s faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    2.3 s · 661 KiB

    About 661 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.3 s faster on a phone.

  • Minify CSS

    1.6 s · 207 KiB

    207 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

  • Mobile performance score: 54

    54/100

    Your mobile performance score is 54 (desktop: 80). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    300 ms · 37 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 37 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Vimeo adds 39 ms

    39 ms

    Vimeo costs a phone 39 ms of main-thread work and 541 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.

  • 5 third-party services on the page

    5 third-party services load with your homepage (Accessibe Accessibility Overlay, Clarity and Vimeo and others), adding 923 KiB and 274 ms of main-thread time.

  • Font display

    250 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 250 ms).

  • 6 long tasks on the main thread

    6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 193 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Document request latency

    71 KiB

    The HTML itself could arrive sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • Improve image delivery

    55 KiB

    5 images could be 55 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Phones get a much slower page than desktops

    Desktop scores 80 but mobile only 54. A gap that wide usually means heavy scripts and images that hit phones hardest.

  • 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.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 743 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 68 ms

    68 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 68 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix63
  • First Contentful Paint: 7.7 s

    7.7 s

    The first text or image appears after 7.7 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 10.9 s

    10.9 s

    Your largest element takes 10.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Precision Electronics Manufacturing Made in the USA Request…”.

  • Time to Interactive: 16.3 s

    16.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 16.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 7.7 s

    7.7 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 7.7 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • 21 images without width and height

    21 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Total Blocking Time: 208 ms

    208 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 208 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

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  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.013

    0.013

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.013, good is under 0.1).

Images and page weight

1 to fix85
  • Page weight: 2.2 MB in 68 requests

    2.2 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.2 MB in 68 requests on a phone: scripts 1.0 MB (12), stylesheets 507 KiB (6) and images 336 KiB (26). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 5 images below the first screen load straight away

    5 images further down the page (140 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.6 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.62 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.62 g of CO₂e: 74.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images use modern formats

    Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

3 to fixGoogle 9495
  • 14 images without alt text

    14 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (6 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 6 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

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  • 41 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 44 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 41 passed and 3 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 9273
  • Title is short (23 characters)

    Your title is only 23 characters: “Home - 4FRONT Solutions”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is long (412 characters)

    Your meta description is 412 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://4frontsolutions.com/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • No robots.txt

    There is no robots.txt at 4frontsolutions.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 37 internal links, 0 external

    The homepage links to 37 pages on 4frontsolutions.com and 0 external pages.

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  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Precision Electronics ManufacturingMade in the USA”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is http://www.4frontsolutions.com/.

AI search readiness

1 to fix88
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

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  • AI answer engines may read the site

    There is no robots.txt, so nothing stops the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity from reading the site and cite it in answers.

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (445 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix88
  • 15 pages point its canonical at the homepage

    /Company, /Company/Management, /Company/FourPillars, /Capabilities, /Capabilities/Design and /Capabilities/PCBAssembly and 9 others declare the homepage as their canonical URL, which tells Google they are copies of the homepage and keeps them out of search results. A site-wide template setting usually causes this.

  • 15 pages share a meta description

    /Company, /Company/Management, /Company/FourPillars, /Capabilities, /Capabilities/Design and /Capabilities/PCBAssembly and 9 others use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 20 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Every page has a meta description

    All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has an H1

    Each page we checked has a main headline.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 5483
  • 4 small tap targets

    4 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 2 third-party cookies

    2 third-party cookies are set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 4 JavaScript errors while loading

    4 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Unexpected end of input”.

  • Browser-reported issues

    Chrome logged issues while loading the page (“Cookie”).

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  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

2 to fix83
  • No HSTS header

    No Strict-Transport-Security header, so browsers may still try plain http first on a return visit.

  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • HTTP/1.1 only

    The server only offers HTTP/1.1, so browsers open several connections and load files more slowly. Most hosts and CDNs turn on HTTP/2 with a setting.

  • No clickjacking protection

    Neither X-Frame-Options nor a CSP frame-ancestors policy is set, so any site can embed yours in a frame.

  • No X-Content-Type-Options

    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is missing, so browsers may guess file types.

  • 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.

  • No security.txt

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

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  • Served over HTTPS

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

  • Valid certificate (110 days left)

    The certificate from DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 verifies for 4frontsolutions.com and is valid for another 110 days.

  • http:// redirects to https

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

  • All 21 links work

    All 21 links checked from your homepage (21 internal, 0 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    4frontsolutions.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

    4frontsolutions.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.

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  • Domain is 9 years old

    9 years

    4frontsolutions.com was registered in Feb 2017 through Network Solutions, LLC. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.

  • Registered until Feb 2027

    4frontsolutions.com is registered until Feb 2027.

Content and conversion

1 to fix93
  • 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 opening hours

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

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • 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.

  • About 400 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 400 words of visible text.

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  • Clear next step on the first screen

    On a phone, the first screen shows a clear next step: “Request a Quote”.

  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact” and “Request a Quote”.

  • Social proof on the page

    Social proof on the homepage: 10 customer or partner logos and 3 trust badges.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Microsoft Clarity.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 2 phone links and 0 email links.

  • Phone number on the homepage

    Your phone number is on the homepage as a tap-to-call link.

Email authentication

1 to fix75
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be 4frontsolutions.com is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 75/100

    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.

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  • SPF with a strict ending (-all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 ip4:74.121.51.207 ip4:24.154.0.21 ip4:72.23.146.21 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “selector1”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Microsoft Clarity (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.

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies, 2 of them by other companies (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.

  • 15 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 15 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

Analytics
Microsoft Clarity

Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info

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