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west.net

Cloud-Based Business Phone Systems, Voice & Video Communications

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

827 ms

Resources Loaded

10.9 sec

Page Rendered

392 ms

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About Website

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Impulse Advanced Communications provides enterprise-level cloud-based business phone systems, including voice, video, teleconferencing and call center services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed West.net page load time and found that the first response time was 827 ms and then it took 11.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

west.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

west.net

827 ms

style.css

2659 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

2650 ms

jquery.fancybox-thumbs.css

2853 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

4469 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original West.net, 66% (25 requests) were made to Web.impulse.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Platform.linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.8 sec) relates to the external source Web.impulse.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of West.net main page is 1.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 31.9 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 4.0 kB, which is 11% 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 27.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 71.8 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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 26.5 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (32%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

west.net SEO score

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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 West.net 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 West.net 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 description is not detected on the main page of West. 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: