Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

westbond.ca

Westbond Industries | Paper Manufacturer & Converter

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

65 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

357 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Westbond content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about westbond.ca

WestBond is a paper manufacturer that supplies disposable paper products to a variety of industries and airlaid parent rolls for converters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westbond.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 65 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westbond.ca performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westbond.ca

65 ms

www.westbond.ca

598 ms

style.css

45 ms

style.css

45 ms

d673959674c2e17104642d1a63b78b7f.min.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Westbond.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (598 ms) belongs to the original domain Westbond.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Westbond.ca main page is 2.6 MB. 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. CSS take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 115.2 kB
  • After minification 113.8 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 99.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 793.4 kB
  • After minification 789.4 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. Westbond images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 385.8 kB

  • Original 554.5 kB
  • After minification 554.4 kB
  • After compression 168.7 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 385.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 965.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 139.6 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. Westbond.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 965.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (76%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westbond. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 63 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westbond.ca accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

westbond.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

westbond.ca SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westbond.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 Westbond.ca 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 data is detected on the main page of Westbond. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: