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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 5 November 202640 issues · 78 checks

This review found 40 issues worth fixing on matsystems.ca, 9 of them high impact, across 78 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

Full-page screenshot of matsystems.ca (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. matsystems.ca at 1.0 s1.0 s
  2. matsystems.ca at 2.1 s2.1 s
  3. matsystems.ca at 3.1 s3.1 s
  4. matsystems.ca at 4.2 s4.2 s
  5. matsystems.ca at 5.2 s5.2 s
  6. matsystems.ca at 6.3 s6.3 s
  7. matsystems.ca at 7.3 s7.3 s
  8. matsystems.ca at 8.3 s8.3 s

Speed

11 to fix61
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.0 s · 1.4 MB

    68 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1.4 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.9 s

    19 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.9 s.

  • 8 third-party services on the page

    8 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, hsappstatic.net and Hubspot and others), adding 1.5 MB and 1.6 s of main-thread time.

  • Mobile performance score: 61

    61/100

    Your mobile performance score is 61. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Google Tag Manager adds 769 ms

    769 ms

    Google Tag Manager costs a phone 769 ms of main-thread work and 551 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.

  • Improve image delivery

    450 ms · 372 KiB

    7 images could be 372 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    800 ms

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 800 ms).

  • hsappstatic.net adds 602 ms

    602 ms

    hsappstatic.net costs a phone 602 ms of main-thread work and 715 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.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    473 KiB

    About 473 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.

  • 10 long tasks on the main thread

    10 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 466 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • Main-thread work: 2.9 s

    A phone's processor spends 2.9 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.8 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    55 KiB

    About 55 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.

  • Minify CSS

    3 KiB

    3 KiB could be saved by minifying CSS.

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  • Server response: 2 ms

    2 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 2 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

7 to fix66
  • Time to Interactive: 17.7 s

    17.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 17.7 s. Good is under 3.8 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: 662 ms

    662 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 662 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • 30 images without width and height

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

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 3.2 s

    3.2 s

    Your largest element takes 3.2 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image. Most of its time is resource load duration (3.1 s).

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.124

    0.124

    The layout shifts by 0.124 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.0 s

    2.0 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.0 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 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.

Images and page weight

3 to fix65
  • Page weight: 2.8 MB in 115 requests

    2.8 MB

    Your homepage downloads 2.8 MB in 115 requests on a phone: scripts 1.4 MB (30), images 1.0 MB (41) and fonts 215 KiB (5). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 5 images in older formats

    5 images (585 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • 4 images far larger than shown

    89 KiB

    4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example 01ba28baff9ed8150c5732b5b0e33296.jpg at 1,280 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 89 KiB.

  • 6 images below the first screen load straight away

    6 images further down the page (247 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

  • About 0.8 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.79 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.79 g of CO₂e: 94.5 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

Accessibility

7 to fixGoogle 7988
  • 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.

  • <html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)

    <html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 image without alt text

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

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (49 elements)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 49 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.

  • 18 links without text

    18 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • No page language

    The <html> element has no lang attribute, so screen readers may read the page in the wrong voice and accent.

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  • 33 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 39 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 33 passed and 6 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 8379
  • No structured data

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

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • Meta description is long (629 characters)

    Your meta description is 629 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 http://www.matsystems.ca/sitemap.xml User-agent:* Disallow:, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • 2 links crawlers can't follow

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

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

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

  • 79 internal links, 9 external

    The homepage links to 79 pages on matsystems.ca and 9 external pages.

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  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “Mat Foundation Solutions”.

  • Title: 31 characters

    Your title is a healthy 31 characters: “Welcome To Canadian Mat Systems”.

  • robots.txt in place

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

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 https://matsystems.ca/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

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

  • Text is in the HTML

    Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (925 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.

Other pages

2 to fix88
  • 2 pages share a title

    / and https://matsystems.ca/www.isnetworld.com all use the title “Welcome To Canadian Mat Systems”. Search engines can't tell which page to show for a search, so each competes with the others.

  • 1 page without an H1

    https://matsystems.ca/getout.php has no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 2 internal pages checked

    We fetched 2 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

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  • Linked pages load

    All 2 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 2 pages that loaded have a meta description.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 2 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 5491
  • 1 third-party cookie

    1 third-party cookie is set on load; browsers are restricting these, so whatever relies on them breaks.

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Mixed Content: The page at 'https://matsystems.ca/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure stylesheet 'http:/…”.

  • Browser-reported issues

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

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  • Tap targets are thumb-sized

    55 of 59 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.

  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

1 to fix75
  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • Phone number is not tap-to-call

    Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.

  • 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 925 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 925 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: “Contact Us”.

  • 2 calls to action

    The homepage has 2 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

Privacy and tracking

  • 4 trackers load before any consent

    4

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and HubSpot (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (HubSpot cookie banner) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

  • 13 cookies set on arrival

    13

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

  • 26 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 26 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • Consent tool: HubSpot cookie banner

    A consent management tool (HubSpot cookie banner) loads with the page.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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Upkeep, stack and company

Stack

Framework
jQuery
Analytics
Google Analytics | Google Tag Manager
Hosting
Wolfpaw Data Centres Inc

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