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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

cars.usnews.com

Best Cars, Best Trucks, and Best SUVs | U.S. News & World Report

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

775 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cars.usnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cars.usnews.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cars.usnews.com

112 ms

cars-trucks

131 ms

css2

46 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

206 ms

utag.js

453 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Cars.usnews.com, 12% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (655 ms) belongs to the original domain Cars.usnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

998.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cars.usnews.com main page is 2.3 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. HTML takes 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 128.8 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 1.2 MB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 711.6 kB
  • After minification 708.1 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. Cars Us News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 106.5 kB

  • Original 267.8 kB
  • After minification 267.8 kB
  • After compression 161.3 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 106.5 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (39%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cars Us News. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cars.usnews.com

cars.usnews.com

112 ms

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131 ms

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46 ms

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206 ms

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453 ms

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206 ms

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425 ms

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428 ms

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270 ms

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TruckRankings.jpg

427 ms

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270 ms

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515 ms

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515 ms

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515 ms

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540 ms

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540 ms

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275 ms

Accessibility Review

cars.usnews.com accessibility score

76

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

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

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

cars.usnews.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cars.usnews.com SEO score

86

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

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 Cars.usnews.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 Cars.usnews.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

cars.usnews.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cars Us News. 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: