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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

virtualyard.co.uk

Virtual Yard - Used Car Dealership Software, Motor Dealership Software, Car Dealership Software, Wholesaler Software, Dealer Software, Easy Car Dealer...

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

224 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

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About Website

Visit virtualyard.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Virtual Yard content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about virtualyard.co.uk

Virtual Yard is a new and used car dealership management system based completely in the cloud. Our SaaS for vehicle dealers is designed to be a one stop shop managing your stock, invoicing, accounting...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virtualyard.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 224 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virtualyard.co.uk performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,080 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virtualyard.co.uk

224 ms

virtualyard.co.uk

454 ms

custom-animations.css

154 ms

font-awesome.min.css

237 ms

style.css

320 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Virtualyard.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Virtualyard.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.0 kB (4%)

Content Size

9.4 MB

After Optimization

9.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virtualyard.co.uk main page is 9.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 91.9 kB
  • After minification 65.0 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 26.9 kB, which is 29% 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 76.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 115.5 kB

  • Original 8.9 MB
  • After minification 8.8 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. Virtual Yard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 223.1 kB

  • Original 332.6 kB
  • After minification 289.4 kB
  • After compression 109.5 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 223.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 56.6 kB
  • After compression 54.9 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. Virtualyard.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (27%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

53

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virtual Yard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

virtualyard.co.uk

virtualyard.co.uk

224 ms

virtualyard.co.uk

virtualyard.co.uk

454 ms

custom-animations.css

custom-animations.css

154 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

237 ms

style.css

style.css

320 ms

logo-grey.png

logo-grey.png

1678 ms

logo-1a.png

logo-1a.png

313 ms

logo-big.png

logo-big.png

1031 ms

logo-3.png

logo-3.png

234 ms

logo-7a.png

logo-7a.png

235 ms

logo-5a.png

logo-5a.png

235 ms

logo-10a.png

logo-10a.png

310 ms

apple-app-store.png

apple-app-store.png

389 ms

google-play-store.png

google-play-store.png

467 ms

dealersa.png

dealersa.png

620 ms

phonev3a.png

phonev3a.png

1082 ms

rich_features_1v3.png

rich_features_1v3.png

1006 ms

rich_features_2a.png

rich_features_2a.png

1229 ms

rich_features_3v3.png

rich_features_3v3.png

1165 ms

award-5a.png

award-5a.png

544 ms

award-4a.png

award-4a.png

622 ms

award-1.jpg

award-1.jpg

697 ms

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award-6a.png

700 ms

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775 ms

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award-8a.png

778 ms

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award-17a.png

852 ms

award-10a.png

award-10a.png

856 ms

award-11a.png

award-11a.png

930 ms

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award-16a.png

934 ms

award-13b.png

award-13b.png

1008 ms

award-14a.png

award-14a.png

1012 ms

award-15a.png

award-15a.png

1082 ms

content_image1v3.png

content_image1v3.png

1392 ms

mobile-app-homea.png

mobile-app-homea.png

1399 ms

website.jpg

website.jpg

1165 ms

contactless-payments-invoice.png

contactless-payments-invoice.png

1244 ms

VRMAutofill.png

VRMAutofill.png

1250 ms

adshopa.png

adshopa.png

1387 ms

social.png

social.png

1320 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

49 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

1398 ms

animate.css

animate.css

1253 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1237 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

1240 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

1247 ms

jquery.plugin.js

jquery.plugin.js

1246 ms

jquery.countdown.js

jquery.countdown.js

1226 ms

jquery.waypoints.min.js

jquery.waypoints.min.js

1238 ms

css

css

26 ms

font-lineicons.css

font-lineicons.css

1227 ms

toastr.min.css

toastr.min.css

1164 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

1097 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

1014 ms

toastr.min.js

toastr.min.js

1055 ms

startuply.js

startuply.js

1052 ms

facebook-shop-hero-words.png

facebook-shop-hero-words.png

977 ms

leadsb.png

leadsb.png

1035 ms

profile-1.jpg

profile-1.jpg

900 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

896 ms

xfbml.customerchat.js

xfbml.customerchat.js

118 ms

logo-inverted.png

logo-inverted.png

189 ms

ad_hero-2.png

ad_hero-2.png

858 ms

vy-heroa.png

vy-heroa.png

1421 ms

hero-iphonea.png

hero-iphonea.png

797 ms

hero-facebook-shop.png

hero-facebook-shop.png

868 ms

hero-online-deposit.png

hero-online-deposit.png

735 ms

hero-login.jpg

hero-login.jpg

642 ms

facebook-marketplace-v3.jpg

facebook-marketplace-v3.jpg

721 ms

quotes-a-white.png

quotes-a-white.png

799 ms

quotes-b-white.png

quotes-b-white.png

812 ms

jizaRExUiTo99u79D0KEwA.ttf

jizaRExUiTo99u79D0KEwA.ttf

66 ms

jizfRExUiTo99u79B_mh0O6tKA.ttf

jizfRExUiTo99u79B_mh0O6tKA.ttf

94 ms

line-icons.woff

line-icons.woff

802 ms

ga.js

ga.js

90 ms

100 ms

69 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

27 ms

Accessibility Review

virtualyard.co.uk accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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

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

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

virtualyard.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

virtualyard.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Virtualyard.co.uk 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 Virtualyard.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

virtualyard.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Virtual Yard. 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: