Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

nationalcar.ca

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Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalcar.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationalcar.ca performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,840 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.html

102 ms

launch-ENa92b85de69804d6e9d2649fe2e5f83e6.min.js

109 ms

gtm.js

117 ms

critical.css

28 ms

polyfill.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalcar.ca, 3% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Nationalcar.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (62%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Nationalcar.ca main page is 3.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 75.1 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 72.4 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 18.9 kB, which is 21% 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 75.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 440.1 kB
  • After minification 428.4 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. National Car images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 923.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 752.8 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 923.2 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 133.5 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. Nationalcar.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (30%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nationalcar.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nationalcar.ca 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nationalcar.ca 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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Nationalcar.ca 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 Nationalcar.ca 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 description is not detected on the main page of National 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: