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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

wheels.ca

Autos | Car Reviews, Auto News and More | The Star

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

666 ms

wheels.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit wheels.ca now to see the best up-to-date Wheels content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wheels.ca

Latest news, reviews and advice on buying a car, saving gas, electric vehicles, tires and more. Visit Toronto Star Autos for news and trends in the auto industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wheels.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wheels.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wheels.ca

37 ms

171 ms

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172 ms

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154 ms

oovvuu.css

144 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wheels.ca, 36% (25 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.9 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

827.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wheels.ca main page is 1.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 756.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 313.4 kB

  • Original 357.9 kB
  • After minification 299.3 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 58.5 kB, which is 16% 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 313.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 6.1 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. Wheels images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 756.3 kB
  • After minification 756.2 kB
  • After compression 731.0 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 57.6 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Wheels.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.1 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (83%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wheels. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

wheels.ca accessibility score

81

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

wheels.ca 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wheels.ca SEO score

89

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wheels.ca 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 Wheels.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

wheels.ca

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