Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

blog.carfish.com

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Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

631 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

420 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.carfish.com page load time and found that the first response time was 631 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.carfish.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.carfish.com

631 ms

css

23 ms

css

45 ms

genericons.css

94 ms

style.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.carfish.com, 28% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (631 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.carfish.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 331.8 kB (56%)

Content Size

593.7 kB

After Optimization

261.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Blog.carfish.com main page is 593.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 355.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 17.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 121.2 kB
  • After minification 118.7 kB

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. Blog Carfish images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 248.6 kB

  • Original 355.5 kB
  • After minification 354.2 kB
  • After compression 106.9 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 248.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 91.4 kB
  • After minification 71.6 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Blog.carfish.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (65%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Carfish. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blog.carfish.com accessibility score

88

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

Best Practices

blog.carfish.com best practices score

58

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

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

blog.carfish.com SEO score

96

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