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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% 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

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

car.gocompare.com

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

945 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

293 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Car.gocompare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 945 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

car.gocompare.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gocompare.com

945 ms

2_0_Styles

398 ms

2_0_Scripts_Head

425 ms

2_0_Scripts

274 ms

icons.png

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Car.gocompare.com, 8% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (945 ms) relates to the external source Gocompare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 156.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

977.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Car.gocompare.com main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 918.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 25.1 kB, which is 30% 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 72.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 918.7 kB
  • After minification 895.3 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 Gocompare images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 132.0 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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 60.8 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (36%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Car Gocompare. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gocompare.com

www.gocompare.com

945 ms

2_0_Styles

2_0_Styles

398 ms

2_0_Scripts_Head

2_0_Scripts_Head

425 ms

2_0_Scripts

2_0_Scripts

274 ms

icons.png

icons.png

113 ms

category-icon-insurance1.png

category-icon-insurance1.png

111 ms

pound-symbol.png

pound-symbol.png

112 ms

sprocket.png

sprocket.png

155 ms

category-icon-travel.png

category-icon-travel.png

159 ms

category-icon-energy.png

category-icon-energy.png

236 ms

category-icon-phoneinternet.png

category-icon-phoneinternet.png

320 ms

category-icon-business.png

category-icon-business.png

242 ms

category-icon-coveredmag.png

category-icon-coveredmag.png

164 ms

gocompare-customer-promise.png

gocompare-customer-promise.png

231 ms

big_thumb.png

big_thumb.png

238 ms

mini-large-thumb

mini-large-thumb

247 ms

large_thumbnail_(1).png

large_thumbnail_(1).png

309 ms

veg-large-thumb

veg-large-thumb

392 ms

logo-goco.png

logo-goco.png

295 ms

icons-product.png

icons-product.png

459 ms

473419

473419

470 ms

473426

473426

439 ms

492675

492675

451 ms

492692

492692

611 ms

492696

492696

684 ms

471792

471792

593 ms

471808

471808

610 ms

471782

471782

700 ms

492786

492786

553 ms

header-feature-didyouknow.png

header-feature-didyouknow.png

634 ms

header-feature-help.png

header-feature-help.png

670 ms

icons-social.png

icons-social.png

689 ms

logo-coveredmag.png

logo-coveredmag.png

690 ms

logo-goco-footer.png

logo-goco-footer.png

716 ms

sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.woff

sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.woff

746 ms

sourcesanspro-semibold-webfont.woff

sourcesanspro-semibold-webfont.woff

724 ms

sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.woff

sourcesanspro-bold-webfont.woff

726 ms

bitter-bold-webfont.woff

bitter-bold-webfont.woff

727 ms

tag.js

tag.js

37 ms

tag

tag

9 ms

activityi;src=3491529;type=hompge;cat=homep121;ord=7379367384128.272;prd=

activityi;src=3491529;type=hompge;cat=homep121;ord=7379367384128.272;prd=

135 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

43 ms

sessioncam.recorder.js

sessioncam.recorder.js

63 ms

one.png

one.png

199 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

15 ms

bat.js

bat.js

61 ms

EG99253480

EG99253480

371 ms

6757.js

6757.js

199 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

90 ms

85 ms

collect

collect

42 ms

collect

collect

70 ms

collect

collect

70 ms

collect

collect

70 ms

config.aspx

config.aspx

83 ms

collect

collect

68 ms

48 ms

523 ms

40 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

32 ms

EG99253480

EG99253480

49 ms

Offers.egain

Offers.egain

337 ms

46 ms

Accessibility Review

car.gocompare.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

car.gocompare.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

SEO Factors

car.gocompare.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Car.gocompare.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 Car.gocompare.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

car.gocompare.com

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