Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

vicwest.com

Vicwest Building Products - Complete Metal Building Envelope Solutions |

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

162 ms

About Website

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Vicwest Building Products is the leading manufacturer in Canada of metal roofing and steel building components for homes and Commercial buildings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vicwest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vicwest.com performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vicwest.com

93 ms

www.vicwest.com

1254 ms

a048f2de372a4c543d2b5a4034e7a888.css

47 ms

node.css

49 ms

poll.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Vicwest.com, 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Js.hs-analytics.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Vicwest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Vicwest.com main page is 3.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 28.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 838.2 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, Vicwest needs image optimization as it can save up to 838.2 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 350.4 kB

  • Original 477.8 kB
  • After minification 411.0 kB
  • After compression 127.4 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 350.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 229.1 kB

  • Original 267.5 kB
  • After minification 209.0 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Vicwest.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 229.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (74%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vicwest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vicwest.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

vicwest.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vicwest.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Vicwest.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 Vicwest.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 Vicwest. 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: