Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

webuyyourcar.co.za

We Buy Your Car - Free online valuation without registration

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

655 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

929 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webuyyourcar.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 655 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

webuyyourcar.co.za performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,610 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.webuyyourcar.co.za

655 ms

wbyc-7.min.css

830 ms

css

156 ms

font-awesome.min.css

115 ms

jquery.min.js

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Webuyyourcar.co.za, 23% (5 requests) were made to D116rcmq9mkgun.cloudfront.net and 14% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (830 ms) relates to the external source D116rcmq9mkgun.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 286.0 kB (67%)

Content Size

429.8 kB

After Optimization

143.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Webuyyourcar.co.za main page is 429.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 178.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 80.2 kB
  • After minification 80.2 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. 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 69.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 75.5 kB

  • Original 178.6 kB
  • After minification 177.2 kB
  • After compression 103.2 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 75.5 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 140.6 kB

  • Original 171.0 kB
  • After minification 167.9 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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. Webuyyourcar.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 140.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (36%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of We Buy Your Car. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

webuyyourcar.co.za accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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

Best Practices

webuyyourcar.co.za best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

webuyyourcar.co.za SEO score

90

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

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 Webuyyourcar.co.za 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 Webuyyourcar.co.za 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 data is detected on the main page of We Buy Your Car. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: