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west.thomson.com

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Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed West.thomson.com page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 2.5 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

west.thomson.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

west.thomson.com

140 ms

store.westlaw.com

215 ms

279 ms

combined.css

54 ms

fonts

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original West.thomson.com, 52% (85 requests) were made to Legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com and 6% (10 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (345 ms) relates to the external source Legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (64%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

830.7 kB

In fact, the total size of West.thomson.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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

  • Original 109.1 kB
  • After minification 104.5 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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 82.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 392.1 kB
  • After minification 379.4 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. West Thomson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 895.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 348.4 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 895.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 456.0 kB

  • Original 532.0 kB
  • After minification 407.1 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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. West.thomson.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 456.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 121 (87%)

Requests Now

139

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 139 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Thomson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 88 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

west.thomson.com SEO score

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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 West.thomson.com 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 West.thomson.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 Thomson. 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: