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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

cars24.com

CARS24: Buy & Sell Used Cars | Car Loan | New Car | Challan

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

477 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cars24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cars24.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,440 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cars24.com

59 ms

www.cars24.com

2020 ms

gtm.js

125 ms

analytics.js

32 ms

1_20230830_1693395013.png

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Cars24.com, 55% (16 requests) were made to Assets.cars24.com and 28% (8 requests) were made to Fastly-production.24c.in. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Cars24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 852.7 kB (28%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cars24.com main page is 3.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 838.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 195.9 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 838.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. CARS24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 220 B

  • Original 380.1 kB
  • After minification 380.1 kB
  • After compression 379.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CARS24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cars24.com accessibility score

92

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

cars24.com best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cars24.com SEO score

97

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

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 Cars24.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 Cars24.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 CARS24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: