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cars.com.au

Carsales | Australia’s No.1 Car Website – carsales.com.au

Page Load Speed

865 ms in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

654 ms

Page Rendered

70 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cars.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 724 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cars.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cars.com.au

141 ms

www.carsales.com.au

53 ms

c.js

19 ms

349 ms

index.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cars.com.au, 56% (5 requests) were made to Static.captcha-delivery.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Carsales.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) relates to the external source Static.captcha-delivery.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.1 kB (21%)

Content Size

42.6 kB

After Optimization

33.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cars.com.au main page is 42.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 28.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 490 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 690 B

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 490 B or 42% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 28.5 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. Car S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 7.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 761 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 761 B or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car S. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

cars.com.au

cars.com.au

141 ms

www.carsales.com.au

www.carsales.com.au

53 ms

c.js

c.js

19 ms

349 ms

index.css

index.css

20 ms

font-face.css

font-face.css

22 ms

logo.png

logo.png

389 ms

loading_spinner.gif

loading_spinner.gif

24 ms

roboto.woff

roboto.woff

4 ms

SEO Factors

cars.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cars.com.au 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.com.au 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

cars.com.au

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