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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

caredge.com

CarEdge | Buy, Sell, and Protect New & Used Cars - CarEdge

Page Load Speed

20.2 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

18.7 sec

About Website

Visit caredge.com now to see the best up-to-date Car Edge content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about caredge.com

Founded by Ray and Zach Shefska, CarEdge is the best place to buy, sell, insure, finance, and protect your car.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caredge.com page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 20.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

caredge.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.33

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value71.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

caredge.com

92 ms

caredge.com

98 ms

gravity-forms-theme-reset.min.css

25 ms

gravity-forms-theme-foundation.min.css

142 ms

gravity-forms-theme-framework.min.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (99 requests) were addressed to the original Caredge.com, 14% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (660 ms) relates to the external source App.ablecdp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 864.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

35.0 MB

After Optimization

34.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Caredge.com main page is 35.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 385.2 kB

  • Original 450.4 kB
  • After minification 449.4 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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 385.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 434.6 kB

  • Original 34.4 MB
  • After minification 34.0 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 Edge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 173.0 kB
  • After minification 173.0 kB
  • After compression 127.8 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 45.2 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (66%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Edge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

caredge.com accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

caredge.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

caredge.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Caredge.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 Caredge.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 data is detected on the main page of Car Edge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: