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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

static.autoexpress.co.uk

Auto Express | New and Used Car Reviews, News & Advice

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

577 ms

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

static.autoexpress.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Static Auto Express content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about static.autoexpress.co.uk

Every new car reviewed and rated by Auto Express road test experts. Plus used car reviews, group tests and in-depth video reviews.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Static.autoexpress.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

static.autoexpress.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value23,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value60.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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10 ms

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51 ms

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27 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

203 ms

ozpb.min.js

255 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Static.autoexpress.co.uk, 65% (89 requests) were made to Media.autoexpress.co.uk and 26% (36 requests) were made to Autoexpress.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (465 ms) relates to the external source Autoexpress.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 689.8 kB (34%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Static.autoexpress.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 673.2 kB

  • Original 768.5 kB
  • After minification 768.4 kB
  • After compression 95.2 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 673.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 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. Static Auto Express images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 202.9 kB
  • After minification 202.9 kB
  • After compression 186.5 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 42 B

  • Original 404 B
  • After minification 404 B
  • After compression 362 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. Static.autoexpress.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (25%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

100

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Static Auto Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

static.autoexpress.co.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

static.autoexpress.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

static.autoexpress.co.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Static.autoexpress.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 Static.autoexpress.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

static.autoexpress.co.uk

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