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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

firstcarrental.co.za

Cheap Car Rental Cape Town, First Car Rental, Car Hire South Africa

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

647 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstcarrental.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 647 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstcarrental.co.za performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firstcarrental.co.za

647 ms

www.firstcarrental.co.za

1752 ms

zqPmKSD2ctNNxg4sNVNXI_dNUPA.js

27 ms

dist.min-A.css

1047 ms

booking-form-A.css

1034 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Firstcarrental.co.za, 11% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.websitepolicies.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Firstcarrental.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

981.0 kB

After Optimization

727.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstcarrental.co.za main page is 981.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 423.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 71.9 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 74.4 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.2 kB, which is 16% 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 71.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 423.8 kB
  • After minification 394.9 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. First Car Rental images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 104.7 kB

  • Original 396.8 kB
  • After minification 392.3 kB
  • After compression 292.1 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 104.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 71.9 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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. Firstcarrental.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (61%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Car Rental. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

firstcarrental.co.za

firstcarrental.co.za

647 ms

www.firstcarrental.co.za

www.firstcarrental.co.za

1752 ms

zqPmKSD2ctNNxg4sNVNXI_dNUPA.js

zqPmKSD2ctNNxg4sNVNXI_dNUPA.js

27 ms

dist.min-A.css

dist.min-A.css

1047 ms

booking-form-A.css

booking-form-A.css

1034 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

1096 ms

componentWithFix-A.css

componentWithFix-A.css

1112 ms

custom-A.css

custom-A.css

1064 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

49 ms

classic-10_7.css

classic-10_7.css

24 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

52 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

540 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

819 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1099 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

28 ms

easing-min.js

easing-min.js

1046 ms

modernizr-min.js

modernizr-min.js

2075 ms

flexslider-min.js

flexslider-min.js

1058 ms

nav-sidebar-min.js

nav-sidebar-min.js

2130 ms

jquery.dlmenu-min.js

jquery.dlmenu-min.js

2139 ms

global-min.js

global-min.js

1105 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

33 ms

autocomplete.js

autocomplete.js

1143 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

63 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

65 ms

js

js

55 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

17 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

96 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

74 ms

fcr-logo.svg

fcr-logo.svg

1119 ms

tel-email-purple.png

tel-email-purple.png

1121 ms

subarrow.png

subarrow.png

1129 ms

Display_LongTerm.png

Display_LongTerm.png

1977 ms

FlySafairBanner_23_FEB.gif

FlySafairBanner_23_FEB.gif

2792 ms

firstconnectlink3.png

firstconnectlink3.png

2055 ms

SandGLandingPageBanner.jpg

SandGLandingPageBanner.jpg

2119 ms

ETolls_Alert.png

ETolls_Alert.png

2111 ms

badge-app-store.png

badge-app-store.png

2135 ms

badge-google-play.png

badge-google-play.png

3061 ms

ad-first-travel.png

ad-first-travel.png

3125 ms

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5698769d-f640-4f48-b580-15d9dd06aa15.woff

3681 ms

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3615 ms

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a64d990e-fc18-4dd7-815d-cbc4f6d3e984.woff

3083 ms

cse.js

cse.js

87 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

85 ms

ui-bg_flat_75_F9F9F9_40x100.png

ui-bg_flat_75_F9F9F9_40x100.png

2749 ms

cse.js

cse.js

55 ms

cse_element__en.js

cse_element__en.js

10 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

51 ms

default.css

default.css

10 ms

async-ads.js

async-ads.js

30 ms

clear.png

clear.png

20 ms

Accessibility Review

firstcarrental.co.za accessibility score

76

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

firstcarrental.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

firstcarrental.co.za SEO score

77

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

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

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 Firstcarrental.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 Firstcarrental.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

firstcarrental.co.za

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