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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% 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

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thedealergeek.com

The Dealer Geek - Ryan Thompson's Dealership Journey

Page Load Speed

27.9 sec in total

First Response

662 ms

Resources Loaded

13.2 sec

Page Rendered

14.1 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Dealer Geek content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thedealergeek.com

Ryan is the General Manager of Ernie Dean Chevrolet in Alliston,ON. He documents his life as a car dealer sharing buying tips, reviews, and randomness.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedealergeek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 662 ms and then it took 27.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedealergeek.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value63.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedealergeek.com

662 ms

analytics.js

442 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

348 ms

style.min.css

474 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

418 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Thedealergeek.com, 13% (8 requests) were made to I2.wp.com and 13% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) relates to the external source I1.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 411.6 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedealergeek.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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 802.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 94.2 kB
  • After minification 92.4 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 75.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 802.5 kB
  • After minification 799.4 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. The Dealer Geek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 146.9 kB
  • After minification 146.9 kB
  • After compression 120.1 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 26.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 306.0 kB

  • Original 411.1 kB
  • After minification 410.9 kB
  • After compression 105.1 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. Thedealergeek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 306.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (49%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Dealer Geek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thedealergeek.com

thedealergeek.com

662 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

442 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

348 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

474 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

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418 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

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417 ms

style.css

style.css

577 ms

style-custom.css

style-custom.css

490 ms

style-responsive.css

style-responsive.css

487 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

650 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

758 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

616 ms

vertical.css

vertical.css

621 ms

audio-player.js

audio-player.js

630 ms

photon.min.js

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600 ms

comment_count.js

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1533 ms

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1534 ms

effect-slide.min.js

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1534 ms

main.min.js

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1581 ms

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272 ms

aweber-wpn-script.js

aweber-wpn-script.js

1579 ms

collect

collect

109 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1108 ms

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ofa-sign.png

2341 ms

2500-lightheart.png

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4136 ms

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3037 ms

Marcus-Sheridan-DealerTalk.jpg

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2905 ms

collect

collect

1757 ms

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2557 ms

high-country-pic.jpg

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2557 ms

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2740 ms

DealerTalk-at-Four-Seasons.png

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2219 ms

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2217 ms

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2488 ms

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2502 ms

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2682 ms

sprites.png

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1685 ms

The-Dealer-Geek-Header-Logo-White.jpg

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1687 ms

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1685 ms

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1685 ms

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2502 ms

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2501 ms

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1934 ms

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1734 ms

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476 ms

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964 ms

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935 ms

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www-player.css

290 ms

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651 ms

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base.js

1246 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

649 ms

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1072 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

2306 ms

id

id

1975 ms

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1079 ms

embed.js

embed.js

154 ms

Create

Create

378 ms

Create

Create

480 ms

log_event

log_event

218 ms

Accessibility Review

thedealergeek.com 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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

thedealergeek.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thedealergeek.com SEO score

91

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

thedealergeek.com

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