Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 0

    SEO

westernunioncanada.ca

International Money Transfers | Western Union Canada

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

4.6 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

westernunioncanada.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernunioncanada.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 4.6 sec and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westernunioncanada.ca performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value42,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value58.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.westernunioncanada.ca

4574 ms

language-selector.css

98 ms

modernizr.min.js

36 ms

main.css

139 ms

main.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Westernunioncanada.ca, 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (5 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Westernunioncanada.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (38%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Westernunioncanada.ca main page is 3.9 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

  • Original 103.7 kB
  • After minification 98.3 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. 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 83.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Western Union Canada images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 822.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 891.3 kB
  • After compression 267.8 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 822.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 489.8 kB

  • Original 583.4 kB
  • After minification 523.3 kB
  • After compression 93.6 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. Westernunioncanada.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 489.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (56%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Union Canada. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westernunioncanada.ca accessibility score

84

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

westernunioncanada.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

SEO Factors

westernunioncanada.ca SEO score

0

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