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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

webuycars.co.za

WeBuyCars | Sell Cars For Cash | Free Online Vehicle Valuations

Page Load Speed

15.9 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

13.3 sec

Page Rendered

493 ms

webuycars.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit webuycars.co.za now to see the best up-to-date We Buy Cars content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about webuycars.co.za

We Buy Cars offer a unique and comprehensive service where they buy your car from you for cash, at your home or work-place in a quick and efficient, streamlined way where you still get a very good pri...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webuycars.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 13.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

webuycars.co.za performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value29,690 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.187

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value47.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

webuycars.co.za

2021 ms

www.webuycars.co.za

2285 ms

css

496 ms

smiley2.gif

711 ms

javascript

2023 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Webuycars.co.za, 18% (9 requests) were made to Static.olark.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Webuycars.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 159.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

912.6 kB

After Optimization

752.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Webuycars.co.za main page is 912.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 691.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 48.6 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 41.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 691.3 kB
  • After minification 652.1 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. We Buy Cars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 150.6 kB
  • After minification 150.5 kB
  • After compression 85.2 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 65.4 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Webuycars.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (43%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of We Buy Cars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

webuycars.co.za

webuycars.co.za

2021 ms

www.webuycars.co.za

www.webuycars.co.za

2285 ms

css

css

496 ms

smiley2.gif

smiley2.gif

711 ms

javascript

javascript

2023 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

34 ms

webuycars_customer_feedback_2.jpg

webuycars_customer_feedback_2.jpg

692 ms

webuycars_customer_feedback_4.jpg

webuycars_customer_feedback_4.jpg

700 ms

webuycars_customer_feedback_1.jpg

webuycars_customer_feedback_1.jpg

699 ms

webuycars_customer_feedback_3.jpg

webuycars_customer_feedback_3.jpg

691 ms

wbcmap.jpg

wbcmap.jpg

924 ms

we_also_sell_cars994654194.jpg

we_also_sell_cars994654194.jpg

1796 ms

pkuWTksTtbk

pkuWTksTtbk

101 ms

www-embed-player-vfl5foy2V.css

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48 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

83 ms

base.js

base.js

179 ms

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90 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

88 ms

fibreoptic.jpg

fibreoptic.jpg

8421 ms

logo_part_1.png

logo_part_1.png

413 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

797 ms

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91 ms

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96 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

831 ms

882 ms

965 ms

loader0.js

loader0.js

816 ms

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c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b

559 ms

update.js

update.js

64 ms

d-3.js

d-3.js

210 ms

collect

collect

96 ms

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5152-590-10-9189.js

124 ms

102 ms

collect

collect

219 ms

80 ms

c

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171 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

38 ms

application2.js

application2.js

298 ms

storage.html

storage.html

217 ms

storage.js

storage.js

607 ms

log.png

log.png

127 ms

visits

visits

368 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

68 ms

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69 ms

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have-questions.png

116 ms

background-small.png

background-small.png

90 ms

common.js

common.js

47 ms

util.js

util.js

47 ms

stats.js

stats.js

121 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

290 ms

log.png

log.png

76 ms

Accessibility Review

webuycars.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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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.

SEO Factors

webuycars.co.za SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Webuycars.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 Webuycars.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

webuycars.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of We Buy Cars. 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: