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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

used.car.com

Used Cars For Sale | Pre-Owned Cars, Trucks and SUVs at UsedCars.com

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

777 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

266 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Used.car.com page load time and found that the first response time was 777 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

used.car.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

used.car.com

777 ms

UsedCarComV2.css

345 ms

logo.png

366 ms

UsedCarComV2.js

288 ms

newloader.gif

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Used.car.com, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (777 ms) belongs to the original domain Used.car.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 296.4 kB (48%)

Content Size

611.8 kB

After Optimization

315.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Used.car.com main page is 611.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 272.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 80.1 kB

  • Original 107.7 kB
  • After minification 101.1 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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. 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 80.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 272.5 kB
  • After minification 261.2 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. Used Car images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-97%

Potential reduce by 173.1 kB

  • Original 178.7 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Used.car.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.1 kB or 97% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (19%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Used Car. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

used.car.com

used.car.com

777 ms

UsedCarComV2.css

UsedCarComV2.css

345 ms

logo.png

logo.png

366 ms

UsedCarComV2.js

UsedCarComV2.js

288 ms

newloader.gif

newloader.gif

78 ms

newloader.GIF

newloader.GIF

79 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

51 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

25 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

19 ms

Ping.aspx

Ping.aspx

221 ms

213 ms

collect

collect

180 ms

collect

collect

223 ms

UsedCarComV3.css

UsedCarComV3.css

121 ms

makemodellist

makemodellist

95 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

151 ms

homebanner.jpg

homebanner.jpg

391 ms

37 ms

Accessibility Review

used.car.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

used.car.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

used.car.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Used.car.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 Used.car.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

used.car.com

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