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24cars.co.za

Domain Registered

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

244 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

24cars.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed 24cars.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 244 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

24cars.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

24cars.co.za

244 ms

www.cars24.ae

262 ms

www.cars24.ae

361 ms

270bcd624a0561b0a7f59f9a98fed648.css

406 ms

adsbygoogle.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original 24cars.co.za, 24% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 20% (17 requests) were made to Cars24.ae. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (807 ms) relates to the external source Cars24.ae.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 267.2 kB (39%)

Content Size

682.2 kB

After Optimization

415.1 kB

In fact, the total size of 24cars.co.za main page is 682.2 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. 70% 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 41.9 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 41.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 270.9 kB
  • After minification 241.2 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, 24 Cars needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 147.9 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 147.9 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. 24cars.co.za 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 40 (53%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 24 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 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

24cars.co.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 24cars.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that 24cars.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 description is not detected on the main page of 24 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: