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westernunion.lu

Transferts d'argent internationaux | Envoyer de l'argent depuis le Luxembourg | Western Union LU

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

237 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernunion.lu page load time and found that the first response time was 237 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

westernunion.lu

237 ms

Home.page

442 ms

base-reset.css

153 ms

boilerplate.css

159 ms

components.css

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Westernunion.lu, 10% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Westernunion.tt.omtrdc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (615 ms) belongs to the original domain Westernunion.lu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 629.2 kB (72%)

Content Size

876.6 kB

After Optimization

247.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Westernunion.lu main page is 876.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 507.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 123.3 kB

  • Original 151.7 kB
  • After minification 147.6 kB
  • After compression 28.3 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 123.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 871 B

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Western Union images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 344.4 kB

  • Original 507.6 kB
  • After minification 465.9 kB
  • After compression 163.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 344.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 160.6 kB

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 124.7 kB
  • After compression 26.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Westernunion.lu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (60%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Union. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westernunion.lu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Westernunion.lu main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Western Union. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: