Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

unifirst.ca

Uniforms, Uniform Rental, and Facility Services | UniFirst

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

984 ms

Page Rendered

159 ms

unifirst.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit unifirst.ca now to see the best up-to-date Uni First content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about unifirst.ca

We always deliver, because you always deliver. Providing uniforms, workwear, safety clothing & PPE, first aid, and facility services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unifirst.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 1.1 sec 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

unifirst.ca performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unifirst.ca

102 ms

www.unifirst.ca

153 ms

unistyles.css

165 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

24 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Unifirst.ca, 17% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) belongs to the original domain Unifirst.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

586.9 kB

After Optimization

329.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Unifirst.ca main page is 586.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 236.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 86.0 kB
  • After minification 78.4 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 72.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 236.1 kB
  • After minification 219.5 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. Uni First images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 82.8 kB

  • Original 163.5 kB
  • After minification 140.8 kB
  • After compression 80.7 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 82.8 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 85.1 kB

  • Original 101.3 kB
  • After minification 85.8 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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. Unifirst.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (29%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uni First. 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.

Accessibility Review

unifirst.ca accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

unifirst.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

unifirst.ca SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Unifirst.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 Unifirst.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 Uni First. 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: