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westernunion.ch

International Money Transfer | Western Union Schweiz

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

133 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Western Union content for Switzerland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about westernunion.ch

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernunion.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westernunion.ch performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.westernunion.ch

205 ms

staticMid.do

1114 ms

common.js

41 ms

style_homepage.css

32 ms

countryPage.js

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Westernunion.ch, 4% (5 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net and 3% (4 requests) were made to P.rfihub.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Westernunion.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 721.1 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

521.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westernunion.ch main page is 1.2 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 438.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 295.9 kB

  • Original 335.9 kB
  • After minification 322.6 kB
  • After compression 40.1 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 295.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 76.0 kB

  • Original 438.5 kB
  • After minification 362.5 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. Obviously, Western Union needs image optimization as it can save up to 76.0 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 315.9 kB

  • Original 428.1 kB
  • After minification 361.9 kB
  • After compression 112.2 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 315.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Westernunion.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (80%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Union. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.westernunion.ch

www.westernunion.ch

205 ms

staticMid.do

staticMid.do

1114 ms

common.js

common.js

41 ms

style_homepage.css

style_homepage.css

32 ms

countryPage.js

countryPage.js

49 ms

AC_RunActiveContent_INTL.js

AC_RunActiveContent_INTL.js

55 ms

AC_ActiveX.js

AC_ActiveX.js

58 ms

WUValidationStaticScripts.js

WUValidationStaticScripts.js

73 ms

mbox.js

mbox.js

84 ms

ValidationRefresh.js

ValidationRefresh.js

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s_code.js

s_code.js

239 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

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headfoot.css

headfoot.css

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TransferStatusIntl.js

TransferStatusIntl.js

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tooltip.js

tooltip.js

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orderstatusintl.css

orderstatusintl.css

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popup_arrow_down.png

120 ms

common.js

common.js

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alert.gif

alert.gif

181 ms

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Footer.js

205 ms

cookies.js

cookies.js

100 ms

cookies.css

cookies.css

106 ms

arrow_15_gray.gif

arrow_15_gray.gif

180 ms

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standard

13 ms

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standard

10 ms

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activityi;src=2990866;type=homep453;cat=chhom360;ord=9213322489522.398

40 ms

wu_new_logo.gif

wu_new_logo.gif

153 ms

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flag_CH.gif

287 ms

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bg_container_main.800.285.jpg

236 ms

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266 ms

tab_on_right.8.23.gif

tab_on_right.8.23.gif

171 ms

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tab_off_mid.6.26.gif

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tab_off_right.8.26.jpg

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473 ms

Q315_Wu_Com_code_1st_transfer_fee_Homepage_381x270_DE_CH.jpg

Q315_Wu_Com_code_1st_transfer_fee_Homepage_381x270_DE_CH.jpg

269 ms

bullet_dot.gif

bullet_dot.gif

236 ms

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469 ms

Q315_Wu_Com_Card_points_redeem_via_SMS_Homepage_381x270_DE_CH.jpg

Q315_Wu_Com_Card_points_redeem_via_SMS_Homepage_381x270_DE_CH.jpg

303 ms

eu_hero_generic_online_DE_de.jpg

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414 ms

universal.html

universal.html

12 ms

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blackboxIframeAction.do

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up_loader.1.1.0.js

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conversion.js

conversion.js

51 ms

ca.html

ca.html

28 ms

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30 ms

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49 ms

cx

cx

74 ms

adb.gif

adb.gif

66 ms

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82 ms

cs

cs

425 ms

sync

sync

79 ms

demconf.jpg

demconf.jpg

58 ms

tap.php

tap.php

55 ms

generic

generic

61 ms

cm

cm

63 ms

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56 ms

popup_top.183.18.png

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390 ms

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28 ms

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71 ms

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26 ms

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33 ms

cm

cm

19 ms

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cx

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18 ms

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264 ms

bg_promotionBody.791.1.jpg

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275 ms

bg_promotionsTable.791.212.jpg

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278 ms

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17 ms

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25 ms

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pixel.gif

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79 ms

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quant.js

quant.js

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64 ms

tap.php

tap.php

193 ms

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snare.js

snare.js

173 ms

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logo.js

logo.js

65 ms

btn_ylw_bg.png

btn_ylw_bg.png

141 ms

pixel

pixel

17 ms

i.match

i.match

432 ms

ELGLog.do;jsessionid=Q-hx12-oy41cXCzpnKo4DMF

ELGLog.do;jsessionid=Q-hx12-oy41cXCzpnKo4DMF

284 ms

print.css

print.css

17 ms

SEO Factors

westernunion.ch SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Westernunion.ch can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German 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 Westernunion.ch 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

westernunion.ch

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