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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

mycars.co.za

MyCars - Bank Repossessed Vehicles | Bank Repossessed Cars | Buy Used Cars for Sale | Sell Used Cars

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

785 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

416 ms

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About Website

Welcome to mycars.co.za homepage info - get ready to check My Cars best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about mycars.co.za

MyCars has a wide selection of used cars for sale. We run regular online auctions of repossessed and used cars for sale.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mycars.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 785 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mycars.co.za performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mycars.co.za

785 ms

mycars.co.za

949 ms

www.mycars.co.za

1108 ms

www.mycars.co.za

1377 ms

normalize.css,skeleton.css,site.css,mycars_theme.css

527 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Mycars.co.za, 11% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Chat.myroof.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.0 kB (56%)

Content Size

199.0 kB

After Optimization

88.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Mycars.co.za main page is 199.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 91.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 78.9 kB

  • Original 91.5 kB
  • After minification 78.3 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 13.2 kB, which is 14% 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 78.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 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. My Cars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 84.6 kB
  • After minification 84.6 kB
  • After compression 52.5 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 32.1 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (60%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Cars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mycars.co.za

mycars.co.za

785 ms

mycars.co.za

mycars.co.za

949 ms

www.mycars.co.za

www.mycars.co.za

1108 ms

www.mycars.co.za

www.mycars.co.za

1377 ms

normalize.css,skeleton.css,site.css,mycars_theme.css

normalize.css,skeleton.css,site.css,mycars_theme.css

527 ms

global.js,data_model_base.js,base_db_models.js,bg_loader.js,range_slider.js,countdown.js,global_hype.js,socket.js

global.js,data_model_base.js,base_db_models.js,bg_loader.js,range_slider.js,countdown.js,global_hype.js,socket.js

843 ms

favourite.js

favourite.js

887 ms

socket_connection.js

socket_connection.js

1045 ms

auction_client.js

auction_client.js

1052 ms

auction.js

auction.js

992 ms

stock_detail_socket_interface.js

stock_detail_socket_interface.js

1051 ms

js

js

53 ms

mycars_logo.png

mycars_logo.png

956 ms

home_bank_sbsa.png

home_bank_sbsa.png

1153 ms

myroof_logo_white.png

myroof_logo_white.png

1266 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

59 ms

index.js

index.js

1579 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

js

js

48 ms

Accessibility Review

mycars.co.za accessibility score

80

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.

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

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

mycars.co.za 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

mycars.co.za SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mycars.co.za 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 Mycars.co.za 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

mycars.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of My Cars. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: