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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

autostation.co.za

Auto-Station - CV, Brake and Service Experts - AutoStation

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

9.2 sec

Page Rendered

775 ms

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About Website

Visit autostation.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Auto Station content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about autostation.co.za

Auto-Station: CV, Brake and Service Experts. Auto service & auto repairs to all makes of vehicles & LDVs. Official Agents of GSP CV Joints. Vehicle inspections & repairs for front axle, rear axle, CV ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Autostation.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

autostation.co.za performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.autostation.co.za

2466 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

244 ms

thegem-preloader.css

487 ms

thegem-reset.css

727 ms

thegem-grid.css

730 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Autostation.co.za, 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Autostation.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 103.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Autostation.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 51.8 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 42.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 44.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Auto Station images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 130.1 kB
  • After minification 130.1 kB
  • After compression 122.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 142.9 kB
  • After minification 142.9 kB
  • After compression 134.1 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. Autostation.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (60%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Auto Station. 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 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.autostation.co.za

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Accessibility Review

autostation.co.za accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

autostation.co.za best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

autostation.co.za SEO score

91

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 Autostation.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 Autostation.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

autostation.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Auto Station. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: