Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

plant.autotrader.co.uk

Used Plant Machinery & Equipment For Sale | Auto Trader Plant

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

525 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

237 ms

plant.autotrader.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit plant.autotrader.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Plant Auto Trader content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about plant.autotrader.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plant.autotrader.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 525 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plant.autotrader.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,180 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plant.autotrader.co.uk

525 ms

bundle.css

566 ms

bundle.js

682 ms

tp.widget.sync.bootstrap.min.js

25 ms

j.php

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Plant.autotrader.co.uk, 33% (23 requests) were made to Trucks.autotrader.co.uk and 17% (12 requests) were made to I.autotrader.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Tags.tiqcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 580.5 kB (60%)

Content Size

964.7 kB

After Optimization

384.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Plant.autotrader.co.uk main page is 964.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 586.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 116.6 kB

  • Original 138.5 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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 24.9 kB, which is 18% 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 116.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 240.2 kB
  • After minification 224.2 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. Plant Auto Trader images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 447.8 kB

  • Original 586.0 kB
  • After minification 579.9 kB
  • After compression 138.1 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 447.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (49%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Plant Auto Trader. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

plant.autotrader.co.uk accessibility score

98

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

plant.autotrader.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

plant.autotrader.co.uk SEO score

84

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 doesn't use 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 Plant.autotrader.co.uk 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 Plant.autotrader.co.uk 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 description is not detected on the main page of Plant Auto Trader. 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: