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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

carsguide.com.au

CarsGuide: Car Reviews - New & Used Car Sales

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

690 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cars Guide content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about carsguide.com.au

Find your next car on carsguide with a huge range of new & used cars from private sellers & car dealers. It's free to sell your car with Australia's largest auto brand.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carsguide.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 3.5 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

carsguide.com.au performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,940 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.carsguide.com.au

74 ms

p20243261.js

245 ms

gpt.js

92 ms

prebid.js

29 ms

jquery.min.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Carsguide.com.au, 8% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Carsguide-res.cloudinary.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (685 ms) relates to the external source Widget.as.criteo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 678.5 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

815.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Carsguide.com.au main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 636.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 493.3 kB

  • Original 600.0 kB
  • After minification 546.7 kB
  • After compression 106.7 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. 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 493.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 256.9 kB
  • After minification 253.6 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 Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 181.9 kB

  • Original 636.6 kB
  • After minification 636.4 kB
  • After compression 454.7 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 181.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (70%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cars Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.carsguide.com.au

www.carsguide.com.au

74 ms

p20243261.js

p20243261.js

245 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

92 ms

prebid.js

prebid.js

29 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

53 ms

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

36 ms

auth0.min.js

auth0.min.js

20 ms

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.autocomplete.min.js

26 ms

cgSearchCarsListingService.js

cgSearchCarsListingService.js

32 ms

cgSearchCars.js

cgSearchCars.js

47 ms

footer-home.js

footer-home.js

47 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

252 ms

logoedit.png

logoedit.png

183 ms

logoedit-centered.png

logoedit-centered.png

249 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

250 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

151 ms

css,

css,

5 ms

MetricWeb-Regular.woff

MetricWeb-Regular.woff

54 ms

MetricWeb-Medium.woff

MetricWeb-Medium.woff

118 ms

carsguideicons.woff

carsguideicons.woff

55 ms

MetricWeb-Bold.woff

MetricWeb-Bold.woff

54 ms

hompage-banner-1440x390-1.jpg

hompage-banner-1440x390-1.jpg

141 ms

js

js

74 ms

js

js

181 ms

v60.js

v60.js

608 ms

dmp-visitor-script.js

dmp-visitor-script.js

607 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

333 ms

ld.js

ld.js

396 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

395 ms

M7KXiZls.js

M7KXiZls.js

584 ms

bat.js

bat.js

581 ms

js

js

255 ms

dmp-dil-script.js

dmp-dil-script.js

627 ms

carsguide.com.au.js

carsguide.com.au.js

579 ms

BFaCx84pdKROUsfhjgbj.js

BFaCx84pdKROUsfhjgbj.js

628 ms

3d.png

3d.png

640 ms

publisher:getClientId

publisher:getClientId

375 ms

ggcmb510.js

ggcmb510.js

250 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

200 ms

2024-Kia-Tasman-ute-red-press-image-1001x565p.jpg

2024-Kia-Tasman-ute-red-press-image-1001x565p.jpg

199 ms

Arkana.jpg

Arkana.jpg

139 ms

destination

destination

144 ms

syncframe

syncframe

83 ms

v60.js

v60.js

80 ms

iQ6.js

iQ6.js

194 ms

glcfg510.js

glcfg510.js

10 ms

P7EC90442-1A91-4AE9-B164-F4B88422ABCF.js

P7EC90442-1A91-4AE9-B164-F4B88422ABCF.js

50 ms

storageframe.html

storageframe.html

113 ms

js

js

75 ms

32.js

32.js

324 ms

nlsSDK600.bundle.min.js

nlsSDK600.bundle.min.js

82 ms

collect

collect

75 ms

collect

collect

110 ms

collect

collect

67 ms

collect

collect

61 ms

event

event

685 ms

rd

rd

31 ms

collect

collect

86 ms

collect

collect

89 ms

ls.html

ls.html

21 ms

m

m

68 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

75 ms

id

id

90 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

116 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

78 ms

gn

gn

69 ms

qpj3ileokg30o1rp184weqv36pv4t1714847330.nuid.imrworldwide.com

qpj3ileokg30o1rp184weqv36pv4t1714847330.nuid.imrworldwide.com

82 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=ZjZ9twAAALh4FQOH

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=ZjZ9twAAALh4FQOH

19 ms

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7 ms

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9 ms

pixel

pixel

31 ms

pixel

pixel

20 ms

ibs:dpid=771&dpuuid=CAESEGht_PHgGf0dqKEQuo-cTXw&google_cver=1

ibs:dpid=771&dpuuid=CAESEGht_PHgGf0dqKEQuo-cTXw&google_cver=1

23 ms

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ibs:dpid=1175&gdpr=0&dpuuid=d_nYMnaq3Tds_IlmcKnGMXX42mdsrohhef_cmqJD

7 ms

Accessibility Review

carsguide.com.au accessibility score

81

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.

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

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

carsguide.com.au best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

carsguide.com.au SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Carsguide.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 Carsguide.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

carsguide.com.au

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