Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

blogs.edmunds.com

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Page Load Speed

15.2 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

4.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.edmunds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 13.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.edmunds.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value54,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value68.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1909 ms

e20178b235b6f0e24fff96df81b22919.svg

1824 ms

2020_Appraisal-Page_How-to-01.png

2869 ms

2020_Appraisal-Page_How-to-02.png

2700 ms

2020_Appraisal-Page_How-to-03.png

2700 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.edmunds.com, 11% (3 requests) were made to Static.ed.edmunds-media.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Static.ed.edmunds-media.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 293.6 kB (58%)

Content Size

504.1 kB

After Optimization

210.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.edmunds.com main page is 504.1 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. HTML takes 328.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 252.7 kB

  • Original 328.7 kB
  • After minification 328.0 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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. 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 252.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 64.0 kB
  • After minification 64.0 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. Blogs Edmunds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 40.8 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 83.4 kB
  • After compression 42.8 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 40.8 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 109 B

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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. Blogs.edmunds.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (62%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Edmunds. 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.

Accessibility Review

blogs.edmunds.com accessibility score

98

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

blogs.edmunds.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blogs.edmunds.com SEO score

95

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.edmunds.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Blogs.edmunds.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 data is detected on the main page of Blogs Edmunds. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: