elementum.vc website review

21 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 4.4 s.

About 731 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 2.7 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

8 third-party services load with your homepage (Squarespace, Vimeo and Google Tag Manager and others), adding 2.4 MB and 601 ms of main-thread time.

Squarespace costs a phone 348 ms of main-thread work and 800 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.

About 81 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

Vimeo costs a phone 116 ms of main-thread work and 1.1 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.

7 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (57 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 45 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

8 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 182 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

3 images could be 63 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

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

The first text or image appears after 7.6 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

Your largest element takes 7.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “Let’s decide the future.”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 12.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 8.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

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

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 2.5 MB in 81 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (32), other files 661 KiB (19) and fonts 175 KiB (9). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.69 g of CO₂e: 83.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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

1 frame has no title, so screen-reader users cannot tell what it contains.

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

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

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

Headings should not be empty: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated minor by axe-core.

Headings skip levels (h1 → h3), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

Your title is only 12 characters: “elementum vc”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

There are 2 <h1> headlines (“” and “Let’s decide the future.”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.

Structured data found (WebSite) but with 1 problem, for example “WebSite: image is not an absolute URL ("//images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f16750233512044d00…”.

Open Graph is missing og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.

The homepage links to 24 pages on elementum.vc and 8 external pages.

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.

There is no https://elementum.vc/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.

https://elementum.vc/our-fund, https://elementum.vc/companies, https://elementum.vc/company/aether, https://elementum.vc/company/aspen, https://elementum.vc/company/ampd and https://elementum.vc/company/anduril and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

https://elementum.vc/companies, https://elementum.vc/company/aether, https://elementum.vc/company/aspen, https://elementum.vc/company/ampd, https://elementum.vc/company/anduril and https://elementum.vc/company/bold-metrics and 8 others have 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.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 18 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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

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

3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://static1.squarespace.com/static/sitecss/5f16750233512044d00695c7/113/52a74dafe4b073…”.

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

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

We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

Social proof on the homepage: “more than 50 companies”. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

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

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

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 558 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager (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 8 cookies, 3 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 16 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.