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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

carbuzz.com

Car News, Reviews and Features

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

724 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

668 ms

carbuzz.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to carbuzz.com homepage info - get ready to check Car Buzz best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about carbuzz.com

Reporting on the latest news from the automotive industry 24/7, with in-depth reviews of the newest models, car buying advice, and fun features.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carbuzz.com page load time and found that the first response time was 724 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carbuzz.com performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carbuzz.com

724 ms

masterv7.css

265 ms

jquery-1.7.js

693 ms

main.js

259 ms

jquery-2.1.3.min.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Carbuzz.com, 54% (48 requests) were made to Db.carbuzz.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (724 ms) belongs to the original domain Carbuzz.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 473.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carbuzz.com main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 26.4 kB, which is 31% 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 75.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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 Buzz images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 204.9 kB

  • Original 328.0 kB
  • After minification 327.4 kB
  • After compression 123.1 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 204.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 157.3 kB

  • Original 185.9 kB
  • After minification 174.0 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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. Carbuzz.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 157.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (30%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Buzz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

carbuzz.com

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724 ms

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265 ms

jquery-1.7.js

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693 ms

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259 ms

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60 ms

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53 ms

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56 ms

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55 ms

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71 ms

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107 ms

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show_ads_impl.js

73 ms

ads

ads

116 ms

container.html

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51 ms

ga.js

ga.js

52 ms

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quant.js

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ads

145 ms

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15 ms

Accessibility Review

carbuzz.com accessibility score

72

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

carbuzz.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

carbuzz.com SEO score

86

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

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 Carbuzz.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 Carbuzz.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

carbuzz.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Car Buzz. 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: