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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

carculator.ie

The Carculator: calculate your motoring costs, from Renault Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

579 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

96 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Carculator content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about carculator.ie

The Carculator helps you calculate what your car is costing you each year. Compare against a Renault to see if you can save on motoring costs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carculator.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 579 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carculator.ie performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carculator.ie

579 ms

reset.css

192 ms

screen.css

279 ms

prettyPhoto.css

278 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

361 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Carculator.ie, 14% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (579 ms) belongs to the original domain Carculator.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.9 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

788.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carculator.ie main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 686.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 17.4 kB, which is 43% 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 34.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 65.6 kB

  • Original 686.0 kB
  • After minification 620.3 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. Carculator images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 148.4 kB

  • Original 300.6 kB
  • After minification 278.5 kB
  • After compression 152.3 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 148.4 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 48.7 kB

  • Original 58.6 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. Carculator.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carculator. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

carculator.ie

carculator.ie

579 ms

reset.css

reset.css

192 ms

screen.css

screen.css

279 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

278 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

361 ms

tooltip.jquery.js

tooltip.jquery.js

194 ms

jquery.ba-hashchange.min.js

jquery.ba-hashchange.min.js

255 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

389 ms

config.js

config.js

304 ms

js

js

58 ms

renault.js

renault.js

476 ms

json2.min.js

json2.min.js

31 ms

wef3yqk.js

wef3yqk.js

89 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

150 ms

ga.js

ga.js

102 ms

carbodytype1.png

carbodytype1.png

192 ms

loadingbarbase1.png

loadingbarbase1.png

194 ms

coinreflection.png

coinreflection.png

313 ms

loadingcoins.gif

loadingcoins.gif

229 ms

loadingwheel1.png

loadingwheel1.png

276 ms

loadingwheel2.png

loadingwheel2.png

275 ms

loadingwheel3.png

loadingwheel3.png

312 ms

resultsback1a.png

resultsback1a.png

311 ms

resultsback2b.png

resultsback2b.png

357 ms

sharetwitter.png

sharetwitter.png

395 ms

sharefacebook.png

sharefacebook.png

395 ms

unticked.png

unticked.png

440 ms

ticked.png

ticked.png

440 ms

activityi;src=2199023;type=carcu125;cat=homep693;ord=4336484721

activityi;src=2199023;type=carcu125;cat=homep693;ord=4336484721

163 ms

get.cars

get.cars

413 ms

logo_2013.png

logo_2013.png

454 ms

footer_bar.png

footer_bar.png

402 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

401 ms

renault_logo.png

renault_logo.png

451 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

445 ms

big_green.png

big_green.png

461 ms

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d

35 ms

d

d

47 ms

d

d

57 ms

d

d

57 ms

d

d

55 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

src=2199023;type=carcu125;cat=homep693;ord=4336484721

src=2199023;type=carcu125;cat=homep693;ord=4336484721

81 ms

p.gif

p.gif

24 ms

Accessibility Review

carculator.ie accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

carculator.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

carculator.ie SEO score

64

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

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 Carculator.ie 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 Carculator.ie 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

carculator.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Carculator. 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: