Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

235 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed United.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

united.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

united.ca

104 ms

default.aspx

120 ms

1419 ms

css

129 ms

awf4abw.js

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original United.ca, 52% (30 requests) were made to United.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source United.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 392.6 kB (59%)

Content Size

661.5 kB

After Optimization

268.9 kB

In fact, the total size of United.ca main page is 661.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 398.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 116.2 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 100.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 140.3 kB
  • After minification 131.6 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. United images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 282.2 kB

  • Original 398.4 kB
  • After minification 395.7 kB
  • After compression 116.2 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 282.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 523 B

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. United.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (64%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of United. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

united.ca SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise United.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that United.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of United. 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: