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westfraser.com

West Fraser | Integrated Forestry Company

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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About Website

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West Fraser is a leading North American integrated wood products company firmly rooted in quality, people and community. West Fraser supplies the world with quality forest products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westfraser.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westfraser.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

westfraser.com

1608 ms

www.westfraser.com

2577 ms

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10 ms

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57 ms

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48 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Westfraser.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to W.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Westfraser.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 528.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Westfraser.com main page is 2.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 34.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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 Fraser images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 338.9 kB

  • Original 472.4 kB
  • After minification 449.2 kB
  • After compression 133.5 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 338.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 101.8 kB

  • Original 124.5 kB
  • After minification 121.5 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. Westfraser.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 101.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (32%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Fraser. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

westfraser.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westfraser.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Westfraser.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of West Fraser. 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: