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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

chevrolet.co.za

General Motors Africa & Middle East: Pushing the Limits of Transportation & Technology

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

340 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

202 ms

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About Website

Visit chevrolet.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Chevrolet content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chevrolet.co.za

General Motors Arabia is home to Cadillac, GMC & Chevrolet in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Egypt others in the region.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chevrolet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 340 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chevrolet.co.za performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

340 ms

data-layer-media.js

32 ms

launch-bc0521b47283.min.js

23 ms

foundation624.min.css

44 ms

jquery.min.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Chevrolet.co.za, 6% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (858 ms) relates to the external source Gmarabia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 747.8 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chevrolet.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 799.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 64.5 kB

  • Original 78.1 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 64.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 799.8 kB
  • After minification 799.8 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. Chevrolet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 177.1 kB

  • Original 427.1 kB
  • After minification 423.1 kB
  • After compression 250.0 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 177.1 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 506.3 kB

  • Original 668.9 kB
  • After minification 661.3 kB
  • After compression 162.6 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. Chevrolet.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 506.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (89%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chevrolet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home

home

340 ms

data-layer-media.js

data-layer-media.js

32 ms

launch-bc0521b47283.min.js

launch-bc0521b47283.min.js

23 ms

foundation624.min.css

foundation624.min.css

44 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

47 ms

foundation624.min.js

foundation624.min.js

46 ms

components.min.css

components.min.css

35 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

51 ms

vue-silent.js

vue-silent.js

86 ms

httpVueLoader.js

httpVueLoader.js

79 ms

vuelidate.min.js

vuelidate.min.js

84 ms

validators.min.js

validators.min.js

84 ms

vue-util.js

vue-util.js

117 ms

vue-app.js

vue-app.js

84 ms

foundation-GMcom-v6-2021.css

foundation-GMcom-v6-2021.css

173 ms

brightcove-single.css

brightcove-single.css

85 ms

foundation.min-v6-modified-2021.css

foundation.min-v6-modified-2021.css

131 ms

components-v9-2021.css

components-v9-2021.css

97 ms

promos-v9.css

promos-v9.css

100 ms

promos_gm.css

promos_gm.css

157 ms

gmcom-global_v8.22.css

gmcom-global_v8.22.css

110 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

137 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

159 ms

gmcom_2021_mol_detail.css

gmcom_2021_mol_detail.css

164 ms

gm-newsroom-en.css

gm-newsroom-en.css

159 ms

MOL-2021-consumer-dev.css

MOL-2021-consumer-dev.css

159 ms

f6-temp-breakpoint-fix.js

f6-temp-breakpoint-fix.js

159 ms

foundation.min-v6.js

foundation.min-v6.js

210 ms

components.js

components.js

164 ms

PopupMenuItemLinks.js

PopupMenuItemLinks.js

163 ms

PopupMenuLinks.js

PopupMenuLinks.js

194 ms

search-toggle.js

search-toggle.js

202 ms

original.jpg

original.jpg

232 ms

AppMeasurement.min.js

AppMeasurement.min.js

60 ms

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

AppMeasurement_Module_ActivityMap.min.js

60 ms

overpass-light.woff

overpass-light.woff

155 ms

overpass-regular.woff

overpass-regular.woff

101 ms

overpass-extralight.woff

overpass-extralight.woff

101 ms

overpass-thin.woff

overpass-thin.woff

107 ms

overpass-semibold.woff

overpass-semibold.woff

83 ms

overpass-bold.woff

overpass-bold.woff

86 ms

overpass-extrabold.woff

overpass-extrabold.woff

276 ms

overpass-heavy.woff

overpass-heavy.woff

257 ms

fa-light-300.ttf

fa-light-300.ttf

590 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

623 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

286 ms

Why-Were-here-Desktop.jpg

Why-Were-here-Desktop.jpg

858 ms

Accessibility Review

chevrolet.co.za accessibility score

69

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

chevrolet.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

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

chevrolet.co.za SEO score

83

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chevrolet.co.za 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 Chevrolet.co.za 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

chevrolet.co.za

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