Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

finance4cars.co.uk

Car Loans & Car Finance Broker - Finance4Cars.co.uk

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

301 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

finance4cars.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit finance4cars.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Finance4 Cars content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about finance4cars.co.uk

Finance4Cars are an independent car finance broker that specialises in helping you find car finance deals when looking to buy a new or used car.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finance4cars.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 301 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

finance4cars.co.uk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finance4cars.co.uk

301 ms

www.finance4cars.co.uk

787 ms

gtm.js

69 ms

jquery-ui.css

299 ms

mdm8rmc.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Finance4cars.co.uk, 13% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Finance4cars.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Finance4cars.co.uk main page is 2.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 27.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB

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. Finance4 Cars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 135.3 kB
  • After minification 135.3 kB
  • After compression 131.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 47.5 kB
  • After minification 47.5 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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. Finance4cars.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (59%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Finance4 Cars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

finance4cars.co.uk accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

finance4cars.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

finance4cars.co.uk SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Finance4cars.co.uk 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 Finance4cars.co.uk 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 Finance4 Cars. 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: