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9elements.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 9 November 202615 issues · 87 checks
This review found 15 issues worth fixing on 9elements.com, 2 of them high impact, across 87 checks. The most urgent: hidden but focusable. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
91AClosest competitors among reviewed websites
Compare side by sideShow as table
| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 23, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 1.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 1.3 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 1.4 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.7 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 1.6 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.5 s |
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
Speed
Mobile performance score: 86
86/100Your mobile performance score is 86. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Improve image delivery
150 ms · 53 KiB5 images could be 53 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
150 ms · 4 KiB1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (4 KiB).
Render-blocking requests
150 ms1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 150 ms.
Reduce unused JavaScript
70 ms · 29 KiBAbout 29 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 70 ms faster on a phone.
2 third-party services on the page
2 third-party services load with your homepage (Matomo and salesviewer.org), adding 44 KiB and 25 ms of main-thread time.
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.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 0.6 s
A phone's processor spends 0.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 29 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 37 ms
37 msYour server sent the HTML in 37 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 3.9 s
3.9 sYour largest element takes 3.9 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Technology & Design crafted with love! CRAFTED WITH LOVE!”. Most of its time is element render delay (1.9 s).
Speed Index: 3.9 s
3.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 3.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
Time to Interactive: 3.9 s
3.9 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 3.9 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors
-3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.7 s to 1.5 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: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors wait 1.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.5 s
1.5 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.5 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
First Contentful Paint: 0.9 s
0.9 sThe first text or image appears after 0.9 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 0 ms
0 msScripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Images and page weight
About 0.1 g of CO₂ per visit
0.14 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.14 g of CO₂e: 16.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 501 KiB in 26 requests
501 KiBYour homepage downloads 501 KiB in 26 requests on a phone: images 250 KiB (13), fonts 157 KiB (4) and scripts 47 KiB (4). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
Hidden but focusable
1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination (1 element)
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 24 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 46 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 3 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
Title is short (16 characters)
Your title is only 16 characters: “Home - 9elements”. 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.
No robots.txt
There is no robots.txt at 9elements.com/robots.txt, the first file search crawlers ask for.
63 internal links, 11 external
The homepage links to 63 pages on 9elements.com and 11 external pages.
5 checks passed
Meta description: 90 characters
Your meta description is 90 characters: “Combining finest craftsmanship with elegant design to ship innovative digital experiences.”.
One H1 headline
Your main headline reads: “Technology & Design crafted with love!”.
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://9elements.com/.
Open Graph tags complete
Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://9elements.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
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.
2 checks passed
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 (982 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
4 pages share a meta description
/services and /projects use the same meta description. A description written for each page earns more clicks.
1 page without an H1
/contact has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
1 page with very little text
/contact has under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 24 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
6 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
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.
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
3 small tap targets
3 of 8 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Security and trust
No Content-Security-Policy
No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.
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.
6 checks passed
Served over HTTPS
The homepage is served over HTTPS (9elements.com).
Valid certificate (76 days left)
The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE1 verifies for 9elements.com and is valid for another 76 days.
HSTS enabled
Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.
http:// redirects to https
http://9elements.com redirects to the secure version.
HTTP/2
The server speaks HTTP/2, so browsers load many files over one connection.
All 43 links work
All 43 links checked from your homepage (34 internal, 9 external) answered without errors.
Domain and trust
No CAA record
9elements.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.
3 checks passed
Domain is 26 years old
26 years9elements.com was registered in Oct 2000 through 1API GmbH. An established domain carries more trust with email providers and search engines.
DNSSEC is on
9elements.com's DNS answers are signed (DNSSEC), so they can't be forged on the way to visitors.
Registered until Oct 2027
9elements.com is registered until Oct 2027.
Content and conversion
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.
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 929 words of copy
The homepage carries about 929 words of visible text.
4 checks passed
6 calls to action
The homepage has 6 calls to action, for example “Contact”, “Get in touch!” and “[email protected]”.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 9 testimonial or review blocks, 3 customer or partner logos and 1 trust badge.
Analytics in place
Analytics detected: Matomo.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Email authentication
Email authentication score: 90/100
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.
3 checks passed
DMARC policy: quarantine
DMARC tells receivers to quarantine mail that fails authentication, and sends you reports.
SPF with a strict ending (-all)
An SPF record lists your sending servers and tells receivers to reject anything else: “v=spf1 a include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:mailgun.org -all”.
DKIM signing found
A DKIM key is published (selector “google”, “k2” and “mandrill”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.
Privacy and tracking
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.
3 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Upkeep, stack and company
No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.
Stack
- Analytics
- Matomo
- Hosting
- Netlify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
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