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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    61% of websites

bmw.co.za

BMW Official Website | Luxury and Sports cars | BMW.co.za

Page Load Speed

65.1 sec in total

First Response

551 ms

Resources Loaded

40.6 sec

Page Rendered

23.9 sec

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About Website

Visit bmw.co.za now to see the best up-to-date BMW content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bmw.co.za

Official Website of BMW South Africa. Information relating to the BMW model range, product information and services available for your luxury car.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bmw.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 551 ms and then it took 64.6 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

bmw.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value44.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value59,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value94.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bmw.co.za

551 ms

index.html

1950 ms

ltr+requests.min.20170816183901.min.css

881 ms

api.min.20170816183901.min.js

3048 ms

angular.min.js

4876 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Bmw.co.za, 28% (7 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to P28.bmw.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Dpm.demdex.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.3 MB (51%)

Content Size

10.3 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bmw.co.za main page is 10.3 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. 80% 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 546.0 kB

  • Original 580.4 kB
  • After minification 516.5 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 63.9 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 546.0 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 523.7 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Obviously, BMW needs image optimization as it can save up to 523.7 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.6 MB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.5 MB
  • After compression 960.2 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 2.6 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 183.3 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. Bmw.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (64%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BMW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bmw.co.za

bmw.co.za

551 ms

index.html

index.html

1950 ms

ltr+requests.min.20170816183901.min.css

ltr+requests.min.20170816183901.min.css

881 ms

api.min.20170816183901.min.js

api.min.20170816183901.min.js

3048 ms

angular.min.js

angular.min.js

4876 ms

gcdm.js

gcdm.js

5716 ms

satelliteLib-ce1cfaf4fe42ee46e31ae2fff23205e01c445d88.js

satelliteLib-ce1cfaf4fe42ee46e31ae2fff23205e01c445d88.js

5443 ms

base.min.20170816183902.min.js

base.min.20170816183902.min.js

3881 ms

VideoViewer.js

VideoViewer.js

4942 ms

mbox-contents-32459273a739f3d37241c7d8272812e97a0cab52.js

mbox-contents-32459273a739f3d37241c7d8272812e97a0cab52.js

298 ms

s-code-contents-1e24564321712b682bfc172fda1703d486d1d099.js

s-code-contents-1e24564321712b682bfc172fda1703d486d1d099.js

1003 ms

target.js

target.js

1157 ms

id

id

3920 ms

ajax

ajax

5405 ms

id_module_BMW.png.asset.1479821843213.png

id_module_BMW.png.asset.1479821843213.png

3253 ms

modellnavigation_allmodels.svg.asset.1431074285415.svg

modellnavigation_allmodels.svg.asset.1431074285415.svg

2431 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

4558 ms

id

id

4043 ms

BMWTypeWebBoldAll.20161018.woff

BMWTypeWebBoldAll.20161018.woff

1649 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Wa7QsAAAAL2bYWpc

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=Wa7QsAAAAL2bYWpc

19971 ms

satellite-564f075e64746d35ef000040.js

satellite-564f075e64746d35ef000040.js

3992 ms

satellite-59157ace64746d3299003d01.js

satellite-59157ace64746d3299003d01.js

3925 ms

s74386431220918

s74386431220918

2375 ms

satellite-5845787064746d1bdf00898b.js

satellite-5845787064746d1bdf00898b.js

2453 ms

satellite-59a6a0d064746d1deb0001de.js

satellite-59a6a0d064746d1deb0001de.js

1476 ms

Accessibility Review

bmw.co.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

bmw.co.za 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bmw.co.za SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Bmw.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 Bmw.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

bmw.co.za

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