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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

trucar.com

TrueCar | New & Used Cars for Sale | Car Pricing & Reviews

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

794 ms

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Trucar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 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

trucar.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,350 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

trucar.com

16 ms

www.truecar.com

423 ms

polyfills-78c92fac7aa8fdd8.js

144 ms

7503.6ed5ce7c3e9f4708.js

166 ms

2985.af6b91ae421491d2.js

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Trucar.com, 48% (74 requests) were made to Static.tcimg.net and 27% (41 requests) were made to Consumer.tcimg.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) relates to the external source Truecar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 726.6 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

941.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Trucar.com main page is 1.7 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. HTML takes 831.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 720.7 kB

  • Original 831.1 kB
  • After minification 830.9 kB
  • After compression 110.4 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 720.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 170.0 kB
  • After minification 165.4 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. Tru Car images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 667.3 kB
  • After minification 667.3 kB
  • After compression 666.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (37%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

94

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tru Car. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

trucar.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

trucar.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

trucar.com SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Trucar.com 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 Trucar.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 description is not detected on the main page of Tru Car. 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: