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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

vwdeals.co.za

New & Used Cars from Bidvest McCarthy | McCarthy.co.za

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

980 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

100 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vwdeals.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 980 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vwdeals.co.za performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.491

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vwdeals.co.za

980 ms

www.mccarthy.co.za

1552 ms

css2

37 ms

bootstrap.min.css

584 ms

bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.css

877 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Vwdeals.co.za, 52% (17 requests) were made to Mccarthy.co.za and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Mccarthy.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

482.3 kB

After Optimization

462.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vwdeals.co.za main page is 482.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 405.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 17.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 619 B

  • Original 405.1 kB
  • After minification 405.1 kB
  • After compression 404.4 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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. Vwdeals.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (87%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vwdeals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vwdeals.co.za

vwdeals.co.za

980 ms

www.mccarthy.co.za

www.mccarthy.co.za

1552 ms

css2

css2

37 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

584 ms

bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.css

bootstrap-datetimepicker.min.css

877 ms

select.min.css

select.min.css

995 ms

fontawesome.min.css

fontawesome.min.css

1245 ms

regular.min.css

regular.min.css

1058 ms

solid.min.css

solid.min.css

1168 ms

page-css.css

page-css.css

1239 ms

site-css-brandtitles.css

site-css-brandtitles.css

1240 ms

animate.411.min.css

animate.411.min.css

1241 ms

rzslider.min.css

rzslider.min.css

1321 ms

slick-combined.css

slick-combined.css

1459 ms

site-colourschemes.css

site-colourschemes.css

1545 ms

site-configsettings.js

site-configsettings.js

1550 ms

combined-1.js

combined-1.js

1856 ms

combined-2.js

combined-2.js

2597 ms

pwa.js

pwa.js

1853 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

60 ms

js

js

59 ms

js

js

141 ms

kellsie.js

kellsie.js

186 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

326 ms

events.js

events.js

369 ms

hotjar-619900.js

hotjar-619900.js

399 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

333 ms

367 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

353 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

1421 ms

main.MWRmMjhhNDhjMQ.js

main.MWRmMjhhNDhjMQ.js

13 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

34 ms

30 ms

Accessibility Review

vwdeals.co.za accessibility score

73

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields 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

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.

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

vwdeals.co.za best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vwdeals.co.za SEO score

71

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 doesn't use 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 Vwdeals.co.za 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 Vwdeals.co.za 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

vwdeals.co.za

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