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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

subaru.co.za

Subaru South Africa | Subaru Cars, Sedans, & SUVs

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

611 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

432 ms

subaru.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Subaru content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about subaru.co.za

Welcome to Subaru South Africa's official website the home of Subaru Cars, Sedans, SUVS and Crossovers. Discover our latest vehicles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Subaru.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 611 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

subaru.co.za performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value49.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value63,340 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.947

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value82.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

subaru.co.za

611 ms

www.subaru.co.za

949 ms

A.style.css.pagespeed.cf.jAkkd_x_Se.css

793 ms

libs.js

1327 ms

site.js.pagespeed.jm.Wq1OfoDUzU.js

535 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Subaru.co.za, 8% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Subaru.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 489.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Subaru.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 11.0 kB, which is 29% 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 31.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 117.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Subaru images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 137.9 kB

  • Original 229.8 kB
  • After minification 229.7 kB
  • After compression 91.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 137.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 202.6 kB

  • Original 244.2 kB
  • After minification 244.1 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Subaru.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (20%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Subaru. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

subaru.co.za

subaru.co.za

611 ms

www.subaru.co.za

www.subaru.co.za

949 ms

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793 ms

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1327 ms

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535 ms

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89 ms

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766 ms

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1527 ms

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767 ms

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774 ms

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1041 ms

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791 ms

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1559 ms

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1556 ms

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3152 ms

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3666 ms

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3659 ms

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3559 ms

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2066 ms

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2083 ms

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2594 ms

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2614 ms

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3033 ms

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3302 ms

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3547 ms

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81 ms

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3851 ms

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4325 ms

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4251 ms

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4315 ms

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4345 ms

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__utm.gif

13 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

35 ms

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38 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

57 ms

base.js

base.js

83 ms

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7 ms

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61 ms

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55 ms

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57 ms

Accessibility Review

subaru.co.za accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

subaru.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

subaru.co.za SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Subaru.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Subaru.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

subaru.co.za

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