Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

pistonheads.co.uk

PistonHeads UK - Stop Dreaming Start Driving

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

279 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

pistonheads.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit pistonheads.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Piston Heads content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pistonheads.co.uk

Trusted by millions as the number one place to buy, sell and love premium, performance and collectible cars. PistonHeads: Stop dreaming, start driving.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pistonheads.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pistonheads.co.uk performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pistonheads.com

66 ms

85ce7bd49990638f.css

23 ms

fdfea40b243d098b.css

26 ms

29864b42f10a9aeb.css

28 ms

d6e85477103248a2.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Pistonheads.co.uk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (108 ms) relates to the external source Pistonheads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 474.3 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Pistonheads.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 383.7 kB

  • Original 430.5 kB
  • After minification 430.1 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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 383.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 90.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Piston Heads images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (35%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Piston Heads. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pistonheads.co.uk accessibility score

97

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.

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

pistonheads.co.uk 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

pistonheads.co.uk SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Pistonheads.co.uk 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 Pistonheads.co.uk 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 Piston Heads. 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: