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autoguide.net

AutoGuide.net: The Internet's Largest Automotive Directory. Find anything on cars, trucks, bikes, 4x4's, hobbies and much, much more!

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

998 ms

Page Rendered

582 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Autoguide.net page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

autoguide.net

55 ms

www.autoguide.net

107 ms

autoguide.css

60 ms

show_ads.js

28 ms

rc_234X60_static.gif

221 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Autoguide.net, 13% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 13% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) relates to the external source Affiliate.carfax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.8 kB (49%)

Content Size

152.3 kB

After Optimization

77.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Autoguide.net main page is 152.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 54.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 48.2 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.4 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 41.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 41.8 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, Auto Guide needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 43.9 kB
  • After minification 43.8 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 16.0 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 679 B

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. Autoguide.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (41%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Auto Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

autoguide.net

autoguide.net

55 ms

www.autoguide.net

www.autoguide.net

107 ms

autoguide.css

autoguide.css

60 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

28 ms

rc_234X60_static.gif

rc_234X60_static.gif

221 ms

showban.asp

showban.asp

354 ms

ag_logo_anim.gif

ag_logo_anim.gif

125 ms

ag_top_title.jpg

ag_top_title.jpg

213 ms

left-top.gif

left-top.gif

128 ms

top.gif

top.gif

127 ms

right-top.gif

right-top.gif

200 ms

france.gif

france.gif

200 ms

tkg_logo_small.gif

tkg_logo_small.gif

127 ms

mg_logo_small.gif

mg_logo_small.gif

324 ms

tg_logo_small.gif

tg_logo_small.gif

325 ms

apf.jpg

apf.jpg

325 ms

ca-pub-7895407028708221.js

ca-pub-7895407028708221.js

196 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

176 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

186 ms

ga.js

ga.js

78 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

161 ms

ads

ads

283 ms

1pxlclr.gif

1pxlclr.gif

237 ms

osd.js

osd.js

4 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

56 ms

abg.js

abg.js

95 ms

favicon

favicon

117 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

109 ms

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nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

106 ms

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49 ms

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24 ms

SEO Factors

autoguide.net SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Autoguide.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Autoguide.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

autoguide.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Auto Guide. 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: