Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

gwl.ca

Canada Life: Insurance, Investments, & Retirement

Page Load Speed

437 ms in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

165 ms

Page Rendered

117 ms

gwl.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gwl content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gwl.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gwl.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 282 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gwl.ca performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,160 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.392

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gwl.ca

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gwl.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (155 ms) belongs to the original domain Gwl.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 103 B (34%)

Content Size

301 B

After Optimization

198 B

In fact, the total size of Gwl.ca main page is 301 B. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 301 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 103 B

  • Original 301 B
  • After minification 287 B
  • After compression 198 B

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 103 B or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

gwl.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

gwl.ca 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

gwl.ca SEO score

93

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 uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gwl.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 Gwl.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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