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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

carstory.com

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Page Load Speed

937 ms in total

First Response

229 ms

Resources Loaded

474 ms

Page Rendered

234 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carstory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 229 ms and then it took 708 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

carstory.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.carstory.com

229 ms

js

86 ms

gpt.js

119 ms

beacon.js

222 ms

entry.BflPlQj-.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Carstory.com, 15% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 8% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (229 ms) belongs to the original domain Carstory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 731.0 kB (69%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

334.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Carstory.com main page is 1.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 545.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 414.4 kB

  • Original 545.7 kB
  • After minification 545.2 kB
  • After compression 131.2 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 414.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 316.6 kB

  • Original 519.4 kB
  • After minification 519.4 kB
  • After compression 202.8 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 316.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (58%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Story. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.carstory.com

www.carstory.com

229 ms

js

js

86 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

119 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

222 ms

entry.BflPlQj-.css

entry.BflPlQj-.css

37 ms

swiper-vue.BWzy6XT9.css

swiper-vue.BWzy6XT9.css

35 ms

BaseDialog.B7V6UIar.css

BaseDialog.B7V6UIar.css

36 ms

BaseSeoFooter.BicFA4Od.css

BaseSeoFooter.BicFA4Od.css

34 ms

hero_2x.BnSnOc3V.avif

hero_2x.BnSnOc3V.avif

53 ms

srpCheckRedirect.BbqomwPT.js

srpCheckRedirect.BbqomwPT.js

2 ms

hero-small_2x.Kx0kI2ij.avif

hero-small_2x.Kx0kI2ij.avif

48 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

11 ms

hero_2x.BnSnOc3V.avif

hero_2x.BnSnOc3V.avif

63 ms

Accessibility Review

carstory.com accessibility score

93

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

Best Practices

carstory.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

carstory.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Carstory.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 Carstory.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

carstory.com

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