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carstations.com

CarStations | Charging Stations App & Map for Electric Cars and Plugin Hybrids

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carstations.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec 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

carstations.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

carstations.com

1069 ms

style.css

13 ms

theme-my-login.css

17 ms

datepicker.css

10 ms

styles.css

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Carstations.com, 16% (20 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Carstations.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 955.5 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

655.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Carstations.com main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 968.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 73.9 kB

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 73.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 252.9 kB
  • After minification 244.4 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 Stations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 629.9 kB

  • Original 968.5 kB
  • After minification 938.8 kB
  • After compression 338.6 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 629.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 243.2 kB

  • Original 295.3 kB
  • After minification 282.2 kB
  • After compression 52.1 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. Carstations.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 243.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (64%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Stations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Carstations.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 Carstations.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

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