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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

cars-4-hire.co.za

Cars for Hire | South Africa Car Rental | Cape Town Car Hire

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

766 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cars-4-hire.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 766 ms and then it took 3.6 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

cars-4-hire.co.za performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.335

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cars-4-hire.co.za

766 ms

www.cars-4-hire.co.za

775 ms

jquery.min.js

73 ms

bluebusiness.css

256 ms

addthis_widget.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Cars-4-hire.co.za, 12% (5 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cars-4-hire.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 346.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

912.5 kB

After Optimization

565.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cars-4-hire.co.za main page is 912.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 459.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 42.5 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 62.0 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 42.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 378.0 kB
  • After minification 370.6 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. Cars 4 Hire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 286.8 kB

  • Original 459.2 kB
  • After minification 458.8 kB
  • After compression 172.5 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 286.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 9.8 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Cars-4-hire.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (42%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cars 4 Hire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cars-4-hire.co.za

cars-4-hire.co.za

766 ms

www.cars-4-hire.co.za

www.cars-4-hire.co.za

775 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

73 ms

bluebusiness.css

bluebusiness.css

256 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

10 ms

skypeCheck.js

skypeCheck.js

10 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

663 ms

phone.png

phone.png

504 ms

phone2.png

phone2.png

505 ms

email.png

email.png

507 ms

call_blue_white_124x52.png

call_blue_white_124x52.png

11 ms

bg_main.gif

bg_main.gif

355 ms

bg_header.gif

bg_header.gif

505 ms

sticker.png

sticker.png

1096 ms

bg_eyecatcher.gif

bg_eyecatcher.gif

595 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

850 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

872 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

1002 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

1011 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

1101 ms

6.jpg

6.jpg

1610 ms

7.jpg

7.jpg

1392 ms

8.jpg

8.jpg

1509 ms

main1.jpg

main1.jpg

1265 ms

getaquote.jpg

getaquote.jpg

1349 ms

GooglePlaces.jpg

GooglePlaces.jpg

1355 ms

bg_content.gif

bg_content.gif

1513 ms

h1_arrow.gif

h1_arrow.gif

1596 ms

bg_quote.gif

bg_quote.gif

1601 ms

li_cube.gif

li_cube.gif

1644 ms

ga.js

ga.js

27 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

52 ms

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

counter.5524cceca805eb4b9b2b.js

19 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

36 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

26 ms

shares.json

shares.json

13 ms

52 ms

pixel

pixel

22 ms

pixel

pixel

20 ms

pixel

pixel

21 ms

pixel

pixel

18 ms

pixel

pixel

15 ms

Accessibility Review

cars-4-hire.co.za accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

cars-4-hire.co.za 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cars-4-hire.co.za SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cars-4-hire.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cars-4-hire.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

cars-4-hire.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cars 4 Hire. 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: