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thecarexpert.co.uk

The Car Expert | Officially the UK's best automotive website

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

413 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

480 ms

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About Website

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

The Car Expert provides award-winning advice on every aspect of buying or owning a car in 2023, plus unique Expert Ratings for every new car.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecarexpert.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 413 ms and then it took 4.5 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

thecarexpert.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.thecarexpert.co.uk

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8 ms

Our browser made a total of 230 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Thecarexpert.co.uk, 10% (24 requests) were made to Contextual.media.net and 10% (22 requests) were made to D234qeqk649blg.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (628 ms) relates to the external source Contextual.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 879.1 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thecarexpert.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 130.7 kB
  • After minification 130.6 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 108.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 664.0 kB
  • After minification 647.9 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. The Car Expert images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 754.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 382.7 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 754.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 141 (64%)

Requests Now

219

After Optimization

78

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 219 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Car Expert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 76 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

thecarexpert.co.uk 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 Thecarexpert.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 Thecarexpert.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

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