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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

caradvice.com

Drive - Australia's home of Car News, Expert Reviews, Independent Advice, Specs and Guides and Cars for Sale

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

620 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caradvice.com page load time and found that the first response time was 620 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

caradvice.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value27,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

caradvice.com

620 ms

www.caradvice.com.au

89 ms

cloudflare.min.js

19 ms

global.css

51 ms

jquery-1.12.0.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Caradvice.com, 66% (103 requests) were made to S3.caradvice.com.au and 10% (15 requests) were made to Caradvice.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (771 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (35%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Caradvice.com main page is 3.3 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 238.8 kB

  • Original 318.9 kB
  • After minification 318.1 kB
  • After compression 80.1 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 238.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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 Advice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 678.8 kB

  • Original 995.5 kB
  • After minification 966.1 kB
  • After compression 316.7 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 678.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 231.7 kB

  • Original 278.4 kB
  • After minification 277.9 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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. Caradvice.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 231.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (20%)

Requests Now

145

After Optimization

116

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 145 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Advice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

caradvice.com accessibility score

69

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

caradvice.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

caradvice.com 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

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

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 Caradvice.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 Caradvice.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

caradvice.com

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