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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

gowlings.com

Gowling WLG | Gowling WLG

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gowlings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gowlings.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gowlings.com

109 ms

www.gowlingwlg.com

238 ms

global

379 ms

GetResource.ashx

93 ms

Nugow.css

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gowlings.com, 82% (45 requests) were made to Gowlingwlg.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (932 ms) relates to the external source Gowlingwlg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 452.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gowlings.com main page is 2.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 62.4 kB

  • Original 76.1 kB
  • After minification 68.7 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 62.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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. Gowling S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 187.5 kB

  • Original 302.5 kB
  • After minification 279.3 kB
  • After compression 115.0 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 187.5 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 164.4 kB

  • Original 198.0 kB
  • After minification 181.9 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Gowlings.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 164.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (63%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gowling S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gowlings.com

gowlings.com

109 ms

www.gowlingwlg.com

www.gowlingwlg.com

238 ms

global

global

379 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

93 ms

Nugow.css

Nugow.css

131 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

31 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

164 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

128 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

139 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

128 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

150 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

256 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

187 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

219 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

223 ms

PortalTemplate.aspx

PortalTemplate.aspx

212 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.js

jquery.easing-1.3.js

193 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

220 ms

jquery.iosslider.js

jquery.iosslider.js

227 ms

fastclick.js

fastclick.js

244 ms

parallax.js

parallax.js

249 ms

main.js

main.js

290 ms

search.js

search.js

291 ms

78.js

78.js

291 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

292 ms

GLWG_Icon.png

GLWG_Icon.png

114 ms

icon-btn-clear.png

icon-btn-clear.png

115 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

130 ms

gowlingwlg_alert_red.png

gowlingwlg_alert_red.png

59 ms

gowlingwlg_location_blue.png

gowlingwlg_location_blue.png

63 ms

gowlingwlg_search_darkblue.png

gowlingwlg_search_darkblue.png

70 ms

GlobalHomepage_SpiceMarketB_desktop.jpg

GlobalHomepage_SpiceMarketB_desktop.jpg

853 ms

arrow-sprite-purple.png

arrow-sprite-purple.png

71 ms

gowlingwlg_newsletter_white.png

gowlingwlg_newsletter_white.png

70 ms

GlobalReach_desktop_2.jpg

GlobalReach_desktop_2.jpg

932 ms

SectorService-Image-Global.png

SectorService-Image-Global.png

676 ms

arrow-sprite-white.png

arrow-sprite-white.png

93 ms

gowling_navigation_back_darkblue.png

gowling_navigation_back_darkblue.png

94 ms

gowling_navigation_forward_darkblue.png

gowling_navigation_forward_darkblue.png

93 ms

gowling_navigation_back_white.png

gowling_navigation_back_white.png

672 ms

gowling_navigation_forward_white.png

gowling_navigation_forward_white.png

672 ms

Careers_Header_desktop.jpg

Careers_Header_desktop.jpg

850 ms

gowlingwlg_location_white.png

gowlingwlg_location_white.png

673 ms

gowlingwlg_contactus_white.png

gowlingwlg_contactus_white.png

674 ms

gwling_social-Icons.png

gwling_social-Icons.png

696 ms

gwlgbwrg.woff

gwlgbwrg.woff

690 ms

gwlgbwlt.woff

gwlgbwlt.woff

623 ms

gwlgbwbd.woff

gwlgbwbd.woff

773 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

580 ms

getAllAppDefault.esi

getAllAppDefault.esi

141 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

55 ms

getSegment.php

getSegment.php

92 ms

collect

collect

69 ms

collect

collect

108 ms

t.dhj

t.dhj

80 ms

Accessibility Review

gowlings.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gowlings.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gowlings.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gowlings.com 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 Gowlings.com 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

gowlings.com

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