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carsautobuy.co.za

Car News an Reviews & Cars for Sale in South Africa | CAR

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carsautobuy.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 104 ms and then it took 2.8 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

carsautobuy.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

carsautobuy.co.za

104 ms

www.carsautobuy.co.za

1504 ms

style_new.css

9 ms

jquery.js

27 ms

common-1.0.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Carsautobuy.co.za, 8% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Carsautobuy.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 147.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

467.7 kB

After Optimization

320.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Carsautobuy.co.za main page is 467.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 239.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 36.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 239.1 kB
  • After minification 231.0 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 Autobuy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 92.0 kB

  • Original 170.4 kB
  • After minification 159.3 kB
  • After compression 78.3 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 92.0 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. Carsautobuy.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (47%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cars Autobuy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1251

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Carsautobuy.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 Carsautobuy.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1251. 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 Cars Autobuy. 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: