Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

uline.ca

Uline.ca - Shipping Boxes, Shipping Supplies, Packaging Materials, Packing Supplies

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

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About Website

Visit uline.ca now to see the best up-to-date Uline content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about uline.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uline.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 1.8 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

uline.ca performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.165

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.uline.ca

218 ms

quantum-uline.js

38 ms

24922740248.js

174 ms

start

238 ms

vendors.06d554910b20d6ebaac5.js

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Uline.ca, 31% (17 requests) were made to Img.uline.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Lpcdn.lpsnmedia.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (818 ms) relates to the external source Img.uline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 373.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Uline.ca main page is 2.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 56.1 kB

  • Original 70.9 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.6 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 56.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 393 B

  • Original 725.4 kB
  • After minification 725.0 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. Uline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 316.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 316.0 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 118.1 kB
  • After minification 118.1 kB
  • After compression 116.7 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. Uline.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (47%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

uline.ca accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

uline.ca best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

uline.ca SEO score

89

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Uline.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 Uline.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 Uline. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: