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carpooling.co.uk

Share your journey with BlaBlaCar - Trusted carpooling | BlaBlaCar.co.uk

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

444 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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About Website

Visit carpooling.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Car Pooling content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about carpooling.co.uk

BlaBlaCar is the UK's leading long-distance carpooling service, connecting drivers with empty seats to people travelling the same way.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carpooling.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 444 ms and then it took 2.5 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

carpooling.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.blablacar.co.uk

444 ms

main.css

160 ms

blablacar.css

396 ms

common.js

393 ms

main.js

532 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Carpooling.co.uk, 29% (14 requests) were made to D1ovtcjitiy70m.cloudfront.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to D2hqsaoq1cfj21.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (532 ms) relates to the external source Blablacar.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (68%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

616.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carpooling.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 64.1 kB

  • Original 79.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 24.0 kB, which is 30% 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 64.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 182.1 kB
  • After minification 178.2 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. Car Pooling images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 777.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 327.6 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 777.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 465.7 kB

  • Original 561.0 kB
  • After minification 559.3 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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. Carpooling.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 465.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (42%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Pooling. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.blablacar.co.uk

www.blablacar.co.uk

444 ms

main.css

main.css

160 ms

blablacar.css

blablacar.css

396 ms

common.js

common.js

393 ms

main.js

main.js

532 ms

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252 ms

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256 ms

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263 ms

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261 ms

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259 ms

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259 ms

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264 ms

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259 ms

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263 ms

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255 ms

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bbc-news.png

261 ms

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265 ms

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265 ms

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263 ms

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266 ms

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instant-film-passenger.png

267 ms

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268 ms

bg-hero-home-small.jpg

bg-hero-home-small.jpg

227 ms

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home-footer-link-arrow.png

226 ms

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229 ms

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321 ms

icon-facebook-28x28.png

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320 ms

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320 ms

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329 ms

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293 ms

blabla-icons.woff

blabla-icons.woff

372 ms

like.php

like.php

232 ms

cmkt

cmkt

363 ms

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ajax-loader-blue.gif

178 ms

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57 ms

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32 ms

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23 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

70 ms

blablacar-print.css

blablacar-print.css

125 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

44 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

71 ms

fbds.js

fbds.js

41 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

513 ms

standard.js

standard.js

139 ms

collect

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5 ms

collect

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99 ms

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51 ms

SEO Factors

carpooling.co.uk SEO score

0

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 Carpooling.co.uk 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 Carpooling.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

carpooling.co.uk

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