Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

autofile.ca

Autofile.ca your trusted source for automotive information.

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

273 ms

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About Website

Visit autofile.ca now to see the best up-to-date Autofile content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about autofile.ca

Autofile.ca is a Canadian automotive web site which is owned and operated by Autofile Communications Inc.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Autofile.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

autofile.ca performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

autofile.ca

41 ms

www.autofile.ca

263 ms

all.js

80 ms

AutoFile.css

732 ms

WebResource.axd

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Autofile.ca, 13% (16 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (933 ms) belongs to the original domain Autofile.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 756.9 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

603.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Autofile.ca main page is 1.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 862.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 90.2 kB

  • Original 129.4 kB
  • After minification 113.9 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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 15.5 kB, which is 12% 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 90.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 302.1 kB
  • After minification 279.1 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. Autofile images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 585.1 kB

  • Original 862.9 kB
  • After minification 854.9 kB
  • After compression 277.9 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 585.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 58.5 kB

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 58.2 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Autofile.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (51%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Autofile. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

autofile.ca accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

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

autofile.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

autofile.ca SEO score

93

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 Autofile.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 Autofile.ca 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 Autofile. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: