artterra.ca website review

Your mobile performance score is 87. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, omnisnippet1.com and deadlinefunnel.com and others), adding 779 KiB and 545 ms of main-thread time.

Shopify costs a phone 349 ms of main-thread work and 531 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.

A phone's processor spends 3.7 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.1 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

3 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 300 ms.

About 251 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

The page has 2,009 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

12 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (181 KiB).

10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 124 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 100 ms).

About 50 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

Polyfills for old browsers add 16 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

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

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

1 image could be 4 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

2 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

The page becomes fully interactive after 10.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.8 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

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.

Your homepage downloads 3.0 MB in 173 requests on a phone: images 1.2 MB (19), scripts 759 KiB (67) and other files 754 KiB (72). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.85 g of CO₂e: 102.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

8 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

[role="img"] and [role="image"] elements must have alternative text: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

Links must have discernible text: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 18 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

7 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

Headings skip levels (h2 → h6, h2 → h6 and h2 → h6), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

There are 3 <h1> headlines (“Where Art Meets Impact”, “Other Past Projects” and “Our projects are made possible through collaborat…”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Your meta description is 299 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.

11 links use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind them.

The homepage links to 42 pages on artterra.ca and 19 external pages.

/blogs/projects and /pages/art-meets-design have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

/blogs/projects has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 22 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

3 of 11 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

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

1 link go through two or more redirects, for example https://artterra.ca/account.

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

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

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

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

artterra.ca 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.

artterra.ca'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.

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

Social proof on the homepage: 8 customer or partner logos. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

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

The homepage carries about 515 words of visible text.

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

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: 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.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Pinterest Tag (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.

Opening the homepage sets 19 cookies, 1 of them by other companies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 23 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.