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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

cars4sa.co.za

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

635 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

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About Website

Visit cars4sa.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Cars 4 Sa content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cars4sa.co.za

Used cars for sale in Gauteng, KZN, and Western Cape regions of South Africa. Choose from more than 11000 demo and used cars.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cars4sa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 635 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cars4sa.co.za performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.282

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cars4sa.co.za

635 ms

www.cars4sa.co.za

1322 ms

MAIN.css

268 ms

responsive-slider.css

524 ms

SpryTabbedPanels.css

526 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Cars4sa.co.za, 14% (13 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 13% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cars4sa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

710.1 kB

After Optimization

426.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cars4sa.co.za main page is 710.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 354.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 62.4 kB

  • Original 77.4 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 13.1 kB, which is 17% 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 62.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 354.8 kB
  • After minification 333.6 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. Cars 4 Sa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 149.2 kB

  • Original 217.8 kB
  • After minification 195.5 kB
  • After compression 68.5 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 149.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.0 kB

  • Original 60.1 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. Cars4sa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 51.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (48%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cars 4 Sa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cars4sa.co.za

cars4sa.co.za

635 ms

www.cars4sa.co.za

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1322 ms

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268 ms

responsive-slider.css

responsive-slider.css

524 ms

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526 ms

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30 ms

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776 ms

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781 ms

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785 ms

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4sa.png

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526 ms

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543 ms

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Accessibility Review

cars4sa.co.za accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cars4sa.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cars4sa.co.za SEO score

100

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Cars4sa.co.za 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 Cars4sa.co.za 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

cars4sa.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cars 4 Sa. 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: