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autotrader.com

Cars for Sale - Used and New Cars, SUVs, and Trucks - Autotrader

Page Load Speed

33.5 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

27.1 sec

Page Rendered

6.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Autotrader.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 33.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

autotrader.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

autotrader.com

93 ms

www.autotrader.com

997 ms

css

1205 ms

atc.min.css

1441 ms

satelliteLib-3c2a626e69f4d4fc1db0bed4213d2e43a802e136.js

1341 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Autotrader.com, 15% (15 requests) were made to Content.autotrader.com and 12% (12 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.8 sec) relates to the external source Cam.demdex.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.6 MB (59%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Autotrader.com main page is 6.1 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 164.4 kB

  • Original 200.9 kB
  • After minification 190.7 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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. 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 164.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Autotrader images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 3.2 MB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.5 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 3.2 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 131.8 kB

  • Original 158.2 kB
  • After minification 157.5 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. Autotrader.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (66%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Autotrader. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Autotrader.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 Autotrader.com 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

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