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gcwc.ca

Great Canadian Wiring Company Ltd. Wiring & Electrical Contractor Barrie - Official Site

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

268 ms

Resources Loaded

849 ms

Page Rendered

129 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcwc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 268 ms and then it took 978 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

gcwc.ca

268 ms

template2.php

514 ms

electrical-b2.jpg

80 ms

electrical-b3.jpg

82 ms

electrical-b4.jpg

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Gcwc.ca, 42% (8 requests) were made to Btn.weather.ca and 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (514 ms) relates to the external source Btn.weather.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

196.4 kB

After Optimization

183.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Gcwc.ca main page is 196.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 173.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 9.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 208 B

  • Original 173.9 kB
  • After minification 173.7 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. Gcwc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 2.0 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 567 B

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. Gcwc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gcwc. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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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 Gcwc.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 Gcwc.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gcwc. 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: