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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

caranddriver.com

Car and Driver: New Car Reviews, Buying Advice and News

Page Load Speed

107.7 sec in total

First Response

119 ms

Resources Loaded

61 sec

Page Rendered

46.6 sec

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About Website

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Covering the automotive industry since 1955 with in-depth reviews and analysis, features, auto show reporting, and advice for car owners and buyers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caranddriver.com page load time and found that the first response time was 119 ms and then it took 107.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

caranddriver.com performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value44,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value58.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

caranddriver.com

119 ms

www.caranddriver.com

252 ms

env.js

90 ms

home.css

153 ms

home.js

9196 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Caranddriver.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Buyersguide.caranddriver.com and 13% (5 requests) were made to Hips.hearstapps.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16 sec) relates to the external source Hips.hearstapps.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Caranddriver.com main page is 5.9 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. 85% 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 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 260.3 kB

  • Original 292.9 kB
  • After minification 251.6 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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 41.4 kB, which is 14% 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 260.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 263.4 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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 And Driver images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 584.5 kB

  • Original 827.8 kB
  • After minification 827.7 kB
  • After compression 243.3 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 584.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 573.6 kB

  • Original 676.2 kB
  • After minification 666.7 kB
  • After compression 102.6 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. Caranddriver.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 573.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car And Driver. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

caranddriver.com

caranddriver.com

119 ms

www.caranddriver.com

www.caranddriver.com

252 ms

env.js

env.js

90 ms

home.css

home.css

153 ms

home.js

home.js

9196 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

6114 ms

280_6980.jpg

280_6980.jpg

4058 ms

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280_7003.jpg

2933 ms

280_7009.jpg

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2933 ms

280_7199.jpg

280_7199.jpg

2989 ms

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280_6800.jpg

2988 ms

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280_6876.jpg

3011 ms

car-and-driver.svg

car-and-driver.svg

2981 ms

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8afbbc4c-5de4-4735-825f-68009841b70b.woff

51 ms

87ae4f4b-6957-43a6-998e-e804b5f8491e.woff

87ae4f4b-6957-43a6-998e-e804b5f8491e.woff

26 ms

c81659a7-862b-4fa9-991a-e7dd563e45c8.woff

c81659a7-862b-4fa9-991a-e7dd563e45c8.woff

26 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

15877 ms

locationdata

locationdata

0 ms

user_bar_nav

user_bar_nav

0 ms

get_replies_count.json

get_replies_count.json

0 ms

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2018-chevrolet-camaro-zl1-1le-test-review-car-and-driver-photo-690063-s-original.jpg

16035 ms

sedan.png

sedan.png

12996 ms

suv.png

suv.png

1844 ms

crossover.png

crossover.png

2108 ms

hybrid-electric.png

hybrid-electric.png

1784 ms

sport.png

sport.png

1975 ms

luxury.png

luxury.png

3855 ms

truck.png

truck.png

3855 ms

van.png

van.png

3623 ms

small.png

small.png

3622 ms

hatchback.png

hatchback.png

3853 ms

station-wagon.png

station-wagon.png

3621 ms

coupe.png

coupe.png

3856 ms

convertible.png

convertible.png

3855 ms

used-car.png

used-car.png

3855 ms

cpo.png

cpo.png

3854 ms

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2018-bmw-2-series-in-depth-model-review-car-and-driver-photo-689967-s-original.jpg

3858 ms

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2018-ram-1500-quick-take-review-car-and-driver-photo-689991-s-original.jpg

3911 ms

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2018-volvo-xc60-t8-plug-in-hybrid-first-drive-review-car-and-driver-photo-689306-s-original.jpg

3909 ms

2018-toyota-tundra-in-depth-model-review-car-and-driver-photo-689938-s-original.jpg

2018-toyota-tundra-in-depth-model-review-car-and-driver-photo-689938-s-original.jpg

3857 ms

Accessibility Review

caranddriver.com accessibility score

92

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

Best Practices

caranddriver.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

caranddriver.com SEO score

100

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

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 Caranddriver.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 Caranddriver.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

caranddriver.com

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