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carsale.com.au

Used Cars - New Cars - Search New & Used Cars For Sale - carsales.com.au

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

787 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carsale.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 787 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carsale.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

carsale.com.au

787 ms

www.carsales.com.au

1370 ms

layout

32 ms

home_redesign-v2-1

62 ms

home

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Carsale.com.au, 30% (30 requests) were made to Carsales.com.au and 19% (19 requests) were made to Carsales.li.csnstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Carsales.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 521.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

633.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carsale.com.au main page is 1.2 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. Images take 474.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 219.8 kB

  • Original 264.0 kB
  • After minification 229.6 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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 34.4 kB, which is 13% 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 219.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 474.3 kB
  • After minification 456.1 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 Sale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 265.1 kB

  • Original 395.7 kB
  • After minification 384.3 kB
  • After compression 130.6 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 265.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Carsale.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (53%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Sale. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

carsale.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carsale.com.au 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 Carsale.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

carsale.com.au

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