Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

citroen.co.za

New Cars, and Servicing | Automotive | Citroën South Africa.

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citroen.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citroen.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,900 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citroen.co.za

192 ms

home.html

661 ms

main.css

185 ms

main.css

524 ms

lang.js.php

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Citroen.co.za, 76% (63 requests) were made to Media.citroen.co.za and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Media.citroen.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (58%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Citroen.co.za main page is 3.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 161.1 kB

  • Original 186.0 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 72.4 kB, which is 39% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 161.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 868.4 kB
  • After minification 836.6 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. Citroen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 944.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 399.8 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 944.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 786.9 kB

  • Original 910.1 kB
  • After minification 894.9 kB
  • After compression 123.2 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. Citroen.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 786.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (44%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citroen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

citroen.co.za accessibility score

42

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

citroen.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

citroen.co.za SEO score

86

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

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 Citroen.co.za 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 Citroen.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

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