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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

carbuying.caranddriver.com

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Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

269 ms

Resources Loaded

772 ms

Page Rendered

6.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carbuying.caranddriver.com page load time and found that the first response time was 269 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carbuying.caranddriver.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,830 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

269 ms

polyfills-78c92fac7aa8fdd8.js

192 ms

otSDKStub.js

347 ms

moapt-data.js

191 ms

moapt-bundle-autos.js

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Carbuying.caranddriver.com, 42% (47 requests) were made to Caranddriver.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) relates to the external source Caranddriver.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 471.1 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Carbuying.caranddriver.com main page is 2.5 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. 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 390.2 kB

  • Original 480.0 kB
  • After minification 480.0 kB
  • After compression 89.8 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 390.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Car Buying Anddriver images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • Original 581.6 kB
  • After minification 581.6 kB
  • After compression 500.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 80.9 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (38%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

69

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Buying Anddriver. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

carbuying.caranddriver.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

carbuying.caranddriver.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

carbuying.caranddriver.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Carbuying.caranddriver.com 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 Carbuying.caranddriver.com 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 Car Buying Anddriver. 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: