Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

autos.aol.com

Autoblog: Car News, Reviews and Buying Guides

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

588 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

autos.aol.com screenshot

About Website

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Autoblog brings you car news; expert reviews of cars, trucks, crossovers and SUVs; and pictures and video. Research and compare vehicles, find local dealers, calculate loan payments, find your car's b...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Autos.aol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 588 ms and then it took 6.1 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

autos.aol.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.autoblog.com

588 ms

home.min.css

11 ms

global.min.css

24 ms

modernizr-2.8.3-respond-1.4.2.min.js

23 ms

boot.min.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Autos.aol.com, 13% (12 requests) were made to Blogsmithmedia.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Autoblog.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source O.aolcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 940.2 kB (48%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Autos.aol.com main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 716.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 199.9 kB

  • Original 225.5 kB
  • After minification 213.1 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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 199.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 380 B

  • Original 713.5 kB
  • After minification 713.1 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. Autos Aol images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 473.1 kB

  • Original 716.8 kB
  • After minification 716.3 kB
  • After compression 243.7 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 473.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 266.9 kB

  • Original 320.3 kB
  • After minification 320.3 kB
  • After compression 53.4 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. Autos.aol.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 266.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (21%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Autos Aol. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

autos.aol.com accessibility score

69

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role] values are not valid

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

autos.aol.com 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

SEO Factors

autos.aol.com SEO score

83

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Autos.aol.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Autos.aol.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

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