Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

edmunds.com

New Cars, Used Cars, Car Reviews and Pricing | Edmunds

Page Load Speed

55 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

36.2 sec

Page Rendered

17.3 sec

edmunds.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Edmunds content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about edmunds.com

Research new and used cars including car prices, view incentives and dealer inventory listings, compare vehicles, get car buying advice and reviews at Edmunds.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edmunds.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 53.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

edmunds.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,100 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.edmunds.com

1420 ms

vendor.bundle.66a12668b63dfaf680f33adfb2b27c3a.css

1308 ms

app.bundle.17f42bc5801e85a9f8f3879fa409a23d.css

3444 ms

e15bd0b733f1d62081168f97c7941461.png

6646 ms

14346 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Edmunds.com, 16% (9 requests) were made to Services.edmunds-media.com and 16% (9 requests) were made to Venom-assets.edmunds-media.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (14.4 sec) relates to the external source Services.edmunds-media.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (59%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Edmunds.com main page is 4.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 253.0 kB

  • Original 285.8 kB
  • After minification 285.5 kB
  • After compression 32.8 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 253.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 857.3 kB
  • After minification 842.8 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. Edmunds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 723.6 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 1.6 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 714.8 kB

  • Original 892.2 kB
  • After minification 878.2 kB
  • After compression 177.4 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. Edmunds.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 714.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (63%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

edmunds.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

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

edmunds.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 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 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 Edmunds. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: