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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

newcastlevw.co.za

New and Used VW Vehicles | Newcastle Volkswagen

Page Load Speed

11.2 sec in total

First Response

899 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

Visit newcastlevw.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Newcastle VW content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about newcastlevw.co.za

Newcastle Volkswagen offers you the latest new, used & MasterCar vehicles in KwaZulu-Natal. Browse through our range and contact us to take the next step.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newcastlevw.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 899 ms and then it took 10.3 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

newcastlevw.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.28

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newcastlevw.co.za

899 ms

newcastlevw.co.za

1297 ms

www.newcastlevw.co.za

2010 ms

js

63 ms

hbtAO98TNE

240 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Newcastlevw.co.za, 25% (17 requests) were made to Image.blob.ix.co.za and 4% (3 requests) were made to Code.jivosite.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Image.blob.ix.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 61.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newcastlevw.co.za main page is 3.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 16.0 kB, which is 32% 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 41.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 808 B

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB

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. Newcastle VW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 462.8 kB
  • After minification 462.6 kB
  • After compression 453.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 39.3 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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. Newcastlevw.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (66%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Newcastle VW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

newcastlevw.co.za

newcastlevw.co.za

899 ms

newcastlevw.co.za

newcastlevw.co.za

1297 ms

www.newcastlevw.co.za

www.newcastlevw.co.za

2010 ms

js

js

63 ms

hbtAO98TNE

hbtAO98TNE

240 ms

css

css

1235 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

1201 ms

fontawesome-all.min.css

fontawesome-all.min.css

1212 ms

style.css

style.css

1227 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1231 ms

ss.css

ss.css

1241 ms

side-nav.css

side-nav.css

1498 ms

widget.css

widget.css

1506 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

swiper-bundle.min.css

1531 ms

ci.css

ci.css

1535 ms

dcard.css

dcard.css

1537 ms

sig-e6-core.css

sig-e6-core.css

1538 ms

sig-e6-ss.css

sig-e6-ss.css

1805 ms

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1557 ms

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2519 ms

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2794 ms

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372 ms

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2398 ms

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2430 ms

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1875 ms

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2180 ms

jquery

jquery

2687 ms

bootstrap

bootstrap

2452 ms

jquery.inputmask.min.js

jquery.inputmask.min.js

1837 ms

engine

engine

1655 ms

LazyLoader.min.js

LazyLoader.min.js

1654 ms

Wishlist.min.js

Wishlist.min.js

1802 ms

Widget.min.js

Widget.min.js

1843 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

1846 ms

ImageRotator.min.js

ImageRotator.min.js

2100 ms

fingerprint.min.js

fingerprint.min.js

2147 ms

WGLHashing.min.js

WGLHashing.min.js

2147 ms

blueimp-gallery.min.js

blueimp-gallery.min.js

2154 ms

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

2396 ms

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

2457 ms

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

2457 ms

script.js

script.js

2461 ms

side-nav.js

side-nav.js

2746 ms

custom.js

custom.js

2758 ms

swiper-bundle.min.js

swiper-bundle.min.js

2769 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

2769 ms

ci.js

ci.js

2773 ms

dcard.js

dcard.js

2981 ms

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2494 ms

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2791 ms

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790-40-mm-1920x1080-40-1920x1080.jpg

2525 ms

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2742 ms

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2743 ms

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2791 ms

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2804 ms

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2834 ms

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2987 ms

ix_blue_150x120.svg

ix_blue_150x120.svg

3042 ms

sig-e6-core.js

sig-e6-core.js

2991 ms

hbtAO98TNE

hbtAO98TNE

567 ms

vwhead-light.woff2

vwhead-light.woff2

1414 ms

vwhead-bold.woff2

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1441 ms

vwtext-regular.woff2

vwtext-regular.woff2

1440 ms

vwtext-regular.woff

vwtext-regular.woff

1440 ms

vwhead-regular.woff2

vwhead-regular.woff2

2268 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

2392 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1830 ms

bundle_en_US.js

bundle_en_US.js

51 ms

Accessibility Review

newcastlevw.co.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

newcastlevw.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

newcastlevw.co.za SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Newcastlevw.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 Newcastlevw.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

newcastlevw.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Newcastle VW. 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: