Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

cars24.ae

CARS24 UAE - Buy and Sell Used Cars Online | Second Hand Cars for Sale in UAE

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

413 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

cars24.ae screenshot

About Website

Welcome to cars24.ae homepage info - get ready to check CARS24 best content for India right away, or after learning these important things about cars24.ae

Buy or sell your car with ease at CARS24 in UAE.Thousands of quality used cars for sale, delivered to your home.Get the Best Price in 1 hour when selling a car.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cars24.ae page load time and found that the first response time was 413 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cars24.ae performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,620 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cars24.ae

413 ms

www.cars24.ae

241 ms

www.cars24.ae

608 ms

270bcd624a0561b0a7f59f9a98fed648.css

500 ms

adsbygoogle.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Cars24.ae, 24% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (10 requests) were made to Cdn.cars24.ae. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Cars24.ae.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 262.1 kB (39%)

Content Size

673.3 kB

After Optimization

411.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Cars24.ae main page is 673.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 301.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 41.7 kB

  • Original 51.8 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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 41.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 262.4 kB
  • After minification 237.4 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. CARS24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 147.8 kB

  • Original 301.1 kB
  • After minification 300.9 kB
  • After compression 153.2 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 147.8 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 58.0 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Cars24.ae needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (53%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CARS24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cars24.ae accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

cars24.ae 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cars24.ae SEO score

74

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cars24.ae 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 Cars24.ae 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 CARS24. 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: