Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

mtb.truecar.com

TrueCar | New & Used Cars for Sale | Car Pricing & Reviews

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

mtb.truecar.com screenshot

About Website

Visit mtb.truecar.com now to see the best up-to-date Mtb True Car content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mtb.truecar.com

TrueCar lets you control your car-buying journey. Shop new & used cars, sell your car, and find all the vehicle information you need with our research tools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mtb.truecar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mtb.truecar.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value68,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value84.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mtb.truecar.com

239 ms

main.html

153 ms

agent.js

166 ms

global.5.css

186 ms

MppUtils.css

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Mtb.truecar.com, 86% (54 requests) were made to A.tcimg.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Js-agent.newrelic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (369 ms) relates to the external source A.tcimg.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (76%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

331.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Mtb.truecar.com main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.9 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 6.0 kB, which is 13% 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 34.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 92.7 kB
  • After minification 82.0 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, Mtb True Car needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.7 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 850.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 763.6 kB
  • After compression 211.5 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 850.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 158.8 kB

  • Original 185.7 kB
  • After minification 139.6 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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. Mtb.truecar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 158.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (75%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mtb True 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 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mtb.truecar.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

mtb.truecar.com 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

mtb.truecar.com SEO score

97

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

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 Mtb.truecar.com 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 Mtb.truecar.com 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 Mtb True 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: