Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

carwale.com

New Cars, Used Cars, Buy a Car, Sell Your Car - CarWale

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

445 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

353 ms

carwale.com screenshot

About Website

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CarWale is one of the India's leading source of new car pricing and other cars related information. CarWale exists to simplify car buying in India and helps you buy the right car at the right pri...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carwale.com page load time and found that the first response time was 445 ms and then it took 2.6 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

carwale.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,300 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carwale.com

445 ms

www.carwale.com

723 ms

cw-common-style.css

443 ms

frameworks.js

45 ms

gpt.js

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Carwale.com, 12% (11 requests) were made to Google.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (723 ms) belongs to the original domain Carwale.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (54%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Carwale.com main page is 3.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 212.2 kB

  • Original 239.4 kB
  • After minification 171.2 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 68.2 kB, which is 29% 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 212.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 66.1 kB

  • Original 867.5 kB
  • After minification 801.5 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 Wale images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 912.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 437.9 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 912.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 404.3 kB

  • Original 493.2 kB
  • After minification 455.7 kB
  • After compression 88.9 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. Carwale.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 404.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (71%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Wale. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

carwale.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

carwale.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

carwale.com 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 Carwale.com 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 Carwale.com 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

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