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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

geico.truecar.com

GEICO Car Buying Service

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

geico.truecar.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geico.truecar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

geico.truecar.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.252

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geico.truecar.com

184 ms

main.html

199 ms

agent.js

124 ms

global.5.css

162 ms

MppUtils.css

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Geico.truecar.com, 86% (56 requests) were made to A.tcimg.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Js-agent.newrelic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (347 ms) relates to the external source A.tcimg.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (73%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

399.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Geico.truecar.com main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 44.3 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.3 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 37.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 158.0 kB
  • After minification 148.7 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. GEICO True Car images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 850.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 763.6 kB
  • After compression 211.5 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 850.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 157.5 kB

  • Original 184.8 kB
  • After minification 140.5 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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. Geico.truecar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 157.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (73%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GEICO True Car. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

geico.truecar.com

geico.truecar.com

184 ms

main.html

main.html

199 ms

agent.js

agent.js

124 ms

global.5.css

global.5.css

162 ms

MppUtils.css

MppUtils.css

136 ms

json2-min.js

json2-min.js

141 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

143 ms

zaglibrary.11.js

zaglibrary.11.js

169 ms

zagjax.17.js

zagjax.17.js

153 ms

valjax.7.js

valjax.7.js

158 ms

zag-tracking.js

zag-tracking.js

167 ms

jquery.current.min.js

jquery.current.min.js

242 ms

MppUtils.js

MppUtils.js

200 ms

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3.min.js

jquery.qtip-1.0.0-rc3.min.js

205 ms

displayFancyBoxOverlay.js

displayFancyBoxOverlay.js

180 ms

_TCTrack_boomerang-min.js

_TCTrack_boomerang-min.js

181 ms

_TCTrack_mppWrapper.js

_TCTrack_mppWrapper.js

205 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

201 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

202 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.2.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.2.pack.js

219 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.js

224 ms

legacy.css

legacy.css

223 ms

legacy.css

legacy.css

224 ms

buy-with-confidence.css

buy-with-confidence.css

224 ms

car-search.5.js

car-search.5.js

275 ms

underscore.1.5.2.js

underscore.1.5.2.js

278 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

285 ms

select2.css

select2.css

276 ms

geico-global.css

geico-global.css

285 ms

Jam.core.js

Jam.core.js

286 ms

Jam.ajaxreq.js

Jam.ajaxreq.js

286 ms

Jam.util.js

Jam.util.js

287 ms

Jam.utilExt.js

Jam.utilExt.js

285 ms

Jam.timer.js

Jam.timer.js

286 ms

jquery-ui-min.js

jquery-ui-min.js

332 ms

select2.js

select2.js

347 ms

partnerPageTagging.js

partnerPageTagging.js

293 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

294 ms

mpp-omniture-reporter.js

mpp-omniture-reporter.js

179 ms

zag-reporter.2.js

zag-reporter.2.js

222 ms

footer-logic.js

footer-logic.js

181 ms

pag-specific.js

pag-specific.js

201 ms

Perf

Perf

75 ms

geico-nav-tab.png

geico-nav-tab.png

53 ms

header-car-icon.png

header-car-icon.png

68 ms

powered-by-truecar-small-horizontal-grey-on-transparent.png

powered-by-truecar-small-horizontal-grey-on-transparent.png

72 ms

tcbb-logo-thin.png

tcbb-logo-thin.png

71 ms

tc-curve-sample-laptop.png

tc-curve-sample-laptop.png

72 ms

powered-by-truecar-small-horizontal.png

powered-by-truecar-small-horizontal.png

73 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

74 ms

reload.html

reload.html

313 ms

body-bg.png

body-bg.png

45 ms

phone-icon.png

phone-icon.png

52 ms

homepage-hero2.jpg

homepage-hero2.jpg

108 ms

icon-sprite.png

icon-sprite.png

53 ms

icons-select2.png

icons-select2.png

69 ms

dd-arrow-blue.png

dd-arrow-blue.png

70 ms

drop-down-arrow-grey.png

drop-down-arrow-grey.png

70 ms

list-dot.png

list-dot.png

70 ms

makeModels.service

makeModels.service

85 ms

powered-by-truecar-small-horizontal-dark-on-transparent.png

powered-by-truecar-small-horizontal-dark-on-transparent.png

24 ms

nr-686.min.js

nr-686.min.js

55 ms

Perf

Perf

69 ms

tct

tct

70 ms

379c97fee1

379c97fee1

116 ms

Accessibility Review

geico.truecar.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

geico.truecar.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

geico.truecar.com SEO score

76

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

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Geico.truecar.com 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 Geico.truecar.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

geico.truecar.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of GEICO True Car. 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: