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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

mercedes-benz.co.za

Mercedes-Benz | South Africa - Official website

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

88 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Mercedes Benz content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mercedes-benz.co.za

Mercedes-Benz offers a range of luxury cars in South Africa, including sedans, SUVs and more. Experience a blend of luxury, sportiness & performance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercedes-benz.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mercedes-benz.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mercedes-benz.co.za

142 ms

owc.min.css

102 ms

vue.min.js

118 ms

globals.css

127 ms

globals.css

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Mercedes-benz.co.za, 89% (50 requests) were made to Assets.oneweb.mercedes-benz.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Userlike-cdn-widgets.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (433 ms) relates to the external source Assets.oneweb.mercedes-benz.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 947.2 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

503.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mercedes-benz.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 901.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 178.8 kB

  • Original 226.9 kB
  • After minification 218.3 kB
  • After compression 48.2 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 178.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 519.2 kB

  • Original 901.1 kB
  • After minification 901.1 kB
  • After compression 381.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 519.2 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 249.2 kB

  • Original 322.8 kB
  • After minification 321.4 kB
  • After compression 73.6 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. Mercedes-benz.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (96%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercedes Benz. 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 from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mercedes-benz.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

mercedes-benz.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

SEO Factors

mercedes-benz.co.za SEO score

92

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

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 Mercedes-benz.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 Mercedes-benz.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mercedes Benz. 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: