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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 44

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

thecartraders.co.uk

The Car Traders UK | Used Cars for Sale | Autotraders

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

656 ms

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About Website

Visit thecartraders.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date The Car Traders content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thecartraders.co.uk

The Car Traders is the most convenient, stress-free way to find and buy a used or new car, at a price you can be confident in.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecartraders.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 4.7 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

thecartraders.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.689

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecartraders.co.uk

179 ms

thecartraders.co.uk

368 ms

css

33 ms

css

50 ms

master_main.css

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Thecartraders.co.uk, 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecartraders.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.6 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecartraders.co.uk main page is 3.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 85.4 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 84.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 13.2 kB, which is 14% 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 85.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. The Car Traders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 397 B

  • Original 170.4 kB
  • After minification 170.4 kB
  • After compression 170.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 31.4 kB
  • After minification 31.4 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Thecartraders.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (12%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

45

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Car Traders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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thecartraders.co.uk

179 ms

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368 ms

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33 ms

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50 ms

master_main.css

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322 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

360 ms

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437 ms

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427 ms

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289 ms

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293 ms

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506 ms

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454 ms

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Accessibility Review

thecartraders.co.uk accessibility score

44

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

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

thecartraders.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

thecartraders.co.uk SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

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 Thecartraders.co.uk 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 Thecartraders.co.uk 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

thecartraders.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Car Traders. 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: