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univar.com

Leading Specialty Chemical & Ingredient Distributor UNVR (NYSE) | Univar Solutions

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

446 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Univar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 446 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

univar.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

univar.com

446 ms

megamenu.css

103 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

341 ms

univar.global.js

153 ms

univar.carousel.js

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Univar.com, 5% (4 requests) were made to A.collective-media.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (542 ms) belongs to the original domain Univar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 539.3 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

763.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Univar.com main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 659.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 117.6 kB

  • Original 143.9 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 46.2 kB, which is 32% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 117.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 659.0 kB
  • After minification 572.8 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. Obviously, Univar needs image optimization as it can save up to 86.2 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 247.0 kB

  • Original 395.8 kB
  • After minification 386.2 kB
  • After compression 148.8 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 247.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 88.4 kB

  • Original 103.5 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Univar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (25%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Univar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

univar.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Univar.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Univar.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 Univar. 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: