Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

scrapcarcompare.co.uk

Scrap Car Compare | Best Cash Prices | FREE UK-wide Collection

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scrapcarcompare.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scrapcarcompare.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scrapcarcompare.co.uk

324 ms

scrapcarcompare.co.uk

548 ms

rmc.bundle_bbe4f5bfcf.css

471 ms

styles.css

322 ms

zebra_dialog.css

324 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Scrapcarcompare.co.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (730 ms) belongs to the original domain Scrapcarcompare.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 717.9 kB (66%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

362.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Scrapcarcompare.co.uk 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 639.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.5 kB, which is 15% 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 39.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 51.6 kB
  • After minification 18.1 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. Obviously, Scrap Car Compare needs image optimization as it can save up to 33.5 kB or 65% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 357.2 kB

  • Original 639.6 kB
  • After minification 632.4 kB
  • After compression 282.4 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 357.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 287.7 kB

  • Original 338.8 kB
  • After minification 272.1 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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. Scrapcarcompare.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (59%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scrap Car Compare. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scrapcarcompare.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scrapcarcompare.co.uk best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scrapcarcompare.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 Scrapcarcompare.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 Scrapcarcompare.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 Scrap Car Compare. 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: