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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

gfi.ca

GFI - About GFI - Custom Metal Manufacturing and Integration

Page Load Speed

607 ms in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

330 ms

Page Rendered

208 ms

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About Website

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

An overview of GFI, the industry leader in custom metal manufacturing and integration. We are the leaders in metal engineering, manufacturing and assembly.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gfi.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 538 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gfi.ca performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gfi.ca

69 ms

gfi.ca

66 ms

18 ms

header.css

15 ms

nivo-slider.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Gfi.ca, 8% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (87 ms) belongs to the original domain Gfi.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.3 kB (17%)

Content Size

533.2 kB

After Optimization

441.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gfi.ca main page is 533.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 387.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 8.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 387.1 kB
  • After minification 384.2 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. GFI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 116.9 kB
  • After minification 116.8 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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 66.2 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 11.5 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Gfi.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GFI. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gfi.ca

gfi.ca

69 ms

gfi.ca

gfi.ca

66 ms

18 ms

header.css

header.css

15 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

31 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

48 ms

jquery-latest-min.js

jquery-latest-min.js

87 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack_new.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack_new.js

61 ms

ga.js

ga.js

22 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

56 ms

GFI-logo.png

GFI-logo.png

16 ms

headers_23.jpg

headers_23.jpg

56 ms

headers_transport.jpg

headers_transport.jpg

57 ms

headers_36.jpg

headers_36.jpg

55 ms

headers_aerospace.jpg

headers_aerospace.jpg

56 ms

headers_03.jpg

headers_03.jpg

57 ms

headers_military.jpg

headers_military.jpg

59 ms

headers_25.jpg

headers_25.jpg

60 ms

headers_34.jpg

headers_34.jpg

59 ms

bg_menu.jpg

bg_menu.jpg

60 ms

deco_02.jpg

deco_02.jpg

61 ms

bullet03.jpg

bullet03.jpg

61 ms

ByABB_Logo_Screen_RGB_White.png

ByABB_Logo_Screen_RGB_White.png

61 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

gfi.ca accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gfi.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

gfi.ca SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gfi.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gfi.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

gfi.ca

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