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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

diycarhire.com.au

Car Hire & Rental Cars | DIY

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

738 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

diycarhire.com.au screenshot

About Website

Visit diycarhire.com.au now to see the best up-to-date DIY Car Hire content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about diycarhire.com.au

DIY Car Hire provide rental vehicles in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Cairns, Canberra and every other Australian city. Compare quotes with us.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Diycarhire.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 738 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

diycarhire.com.au performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.diycarhire.com.au

738 ms

default.css

456 ms

js

58 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

698 ms

chosen.css

483 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Diycarhire.com.au, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Diycarhire.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

668.5 kB

After Optimization

506.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Diycarhire.com.au main page is 668.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 322.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 90.9 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.4 kB, which is 11% 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 90.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 322.5 kB
  • After minification 305.2 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. DIY Car Hire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 216.5 kB
  • After minification 216.5 kB
  • After compression 170.3 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 46.3 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. Diycarhire.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (58%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DIY Car Hire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.diycarhire.com.au

www.diycarhire.com.au

738 ms

default.css

default.css

456 ms

js

js

58 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

698 ms

chosen.css

chosen.css

483 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

455 ms

jquery.timepicker.css

jquery.timepicker.css

444 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

902 ms

chosen.jquery.min.js

chosen.jquery.min.js

667 ms

jquery.leanModal.min.js

jquery.leanModal.min.js

677 ms

jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js

jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js

899 ms

jquery-ui-slideraccess.js

jquery-ui-slideraccess.js

695 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

887 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

900 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1116 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

913 ms

diyGenericPage.aspx

diyGenericPage.aspx

1208 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

158 ms

cweb.search-1.0.js

cweb.search-1.0.js

1026 ms

reset.css

reset.css

793 ms

default-fonts.css

default-fonts.css

794 ms

default-standard.css

default-standard.css

795 ms

default-searchform.css

default-searchform.css

884 ms

default-boxes.css

default-boxes.css

982 ms

default-flyouts.css

default-flyouts.css

1114 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

245 ms

b_modifybooking.png

b_modifybooking.png

257 ms

navmap-au.png

navmap-au.png

235 ms

logo_avis.png

logo_avis.png

238 ms

logo_budget.png

logo_budget.png

251 ms

logo_europcar.png

logo_europcar.png

246 ms

logo_hertz.png

logo_hertz.png

466 ms

logo_thrifty.png

logo_thrifty.png

451 ms

clear.png

clear.png

465 ms

EFF0528_DIYCarHire_WebDesign_Slices_87.jpg

EFF0528_DIYCarHire_WebDesign_Slices_87.jpg

686 ms

Searching-1.gif

Searching-1.gif

485 ms

home-phonecontact.png

home-phonecontact.png

495 ms

cheapest.png

cheapest.png

674 ms

logo_avis.png

logo_avis.png

682 ms

logo_budget.png

logo_budget.png

684 ms

logo_europcar.png

logo_europcar.png

715 ms

logo_hertz.png

logo_hertz.png

717 ms

logo_thrifty.png

logo_thrifty.png

892 ms

banner_search.jpg

banner_search.jpg

1116 ms

nav_container.png

nav_container.png

911 ms

nav_divider.png

nav_divider.png

906 ms

nav-arrow.png

nav-arrow.png

929 ms

logo.png

logo.png

936 ms

lexiadama-webfont.woff

lexiadama-webfont.woff

1098 ms

tab_small_ro.png

tab_small_ro.png

1109 ms

tab_medium.png

tab_medium.png

1117 ms

tab_large.png

tab_large.png

1129 ms

searchform-bg.png

searchform-bg.png

1147 ms

tick_orange.png

tick_orange.png

1319 ms

form_calendar.png

form_calendar.png

1310 ms

form_dropdown.png

form_dropdown.png

1324 ms

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

1351 ms

b_search.png

b_search.png

1387 ms

box-main-top.png

box-main-top.png

1388 ms

box-main-bg.png

box-main-bg.png

1523 ms

box-main-inner1-top.png

box-main-inner1-top.png

1539 ms

diyGetJsonLocations.aspx

diyGetJsonLocations.aspx

1333 ms

diyGetJsonCountries.aspx

diyGetJsonCountries.aspx

1368 ms

lexiadama-bold-webfont.woff

lexiadama-bold-webfont.woff

1392 ms

lexiadama-bolditalic-webfont.woff

lexiadama-bolditalic-webfont.woff

1390 ms

lexiadama-italic-webfont.woff

lexiadama-italic-webfont.woff

1511 ms

box-main-inner1-bg.png

box-main-inner1-bg.png

1515 ms

box-main-inner1-bottom.png

box-main-inner1-bottom.png

1326 ms

b_sidebar.png

b_sidebar.png

1347 ms

box-main-bottom.png

box-main-bottom.png

1392 ms

footer_bkgtop.jpg

footer_bkgtop.jpg

1378 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

1481 ms

DIYlogo_small.png

DIYlogo_small.png

1313 ms

chosen-sprite.png

chosen-sprite.png

1310 ms

Accessibility Review

diycarhire.com.au accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

diycarhire.com.au 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

diycarhire.com.au 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 Diycarhire.com.au 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 Diycarhire.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

diycarhire.com.au

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