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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

qc-cars.com

QC Cars.com - Quad Cities Cars - QC-Cars - The Quad Cities Car Dealer Network and Auto Classifieds

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

470 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Qc-cars.com page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

qc-cars.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.228

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

qc-cars.com

217 ms

www.qc-cars.com

876 ms

bootstrap.min.css

343 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.min.css

207 ms

StyleSheet.css

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Qc-cars.com, 15% (7 requests) were made to Vehicle-photos-published.vauto.com and 2% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (916 ms) belongs to the original domain Qc-cars.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 388.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Qc-cars.com main page is 3.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 60.6 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 60.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 55.8 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB

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. QC Cars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 143.1 kB
  • After compression 118.3 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 24.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 247.0 kB

  • Original 281.3 kB
  • After minification 260.7 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. Qc-cars.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 247.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (33%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of QC Cars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

qc-cars.com

qc-cars.com

217 ms

www.qc-cars.com

www.qc-cars.com

876 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

343 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.min.css

bootstrap-datepicker.min.css

207 ms

StyleSheet.css

StyleSheet.css

138 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

310 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

215 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.min.js

bootstrap-datepicker.min.js

291 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

276 ms

NoImageError.js

NoImageError.js

277 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

360 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

380 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

916 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

430 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

384 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

450 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

21 ms

js

js

76 ms

StyleSheet.css

StyleSheet.css

362 ms

image-1.jpg

image-1.jpg

78 ms

image-1.jpg

image-1.jpg

167 ms

image-1.jpg

image-1.jpg

164 ms

image-1.jpg

image-1.jpg

174 ms

image-1.jpg

image-1.jpg

159 ms

image-1.jpg

image-1.jpg

188 ms

image-1.jpg

image-1.jpg

187 ms

logo.png

logo.png

154 ms

arrow-prev.png

arrow-prev.png

157 ms

arrow-next.png

arrow-next.png

154 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-18-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-18-ImageFile1.jpg

151 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-19-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-19-ImageFile1.jpg

148 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-20-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-20-ImageFile1.jpg

223 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-21-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-21-ImageFile1.jpg

225 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-22-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-22-ImageFile1.jpg

226 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-23-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-23-ImageFile1.jpg

254 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-24-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-24-ImageFile1.jpg

251 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-25-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-25-ImageFile1.jpg

294 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-26-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-26-ImageFile1.jpg

293 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-27-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-27-ImageFile1.jpg

295 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-28-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-28-ImageFile1.jpg

323 ms

MGSlideShowHomePage-29-ImageFile1.jpg

MGSlideShowHomePage-29-ImageFile1.jpg

323 ms

NoImage.png

NoImage.png

368 ms

MGDisplayAd-62-ImageFile1.jpg

MGDisplayAd-62-ImageFile1.jpg

367 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

369 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

470 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

468 ms

opensans-regular.woff

opensans-regular.woff

120 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

119 ms

Accessibility Review

qc-cars.com accessibility score

89

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

qc-cars.com 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

qc-cars.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 Qc-cars.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 Qc-cars.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

qc-cars.com

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