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carguru.my website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 13 November 202638 issues · 87 checks
This review found 38 issues worth fixing on carguru.my, 14 of them high impact, across 87 checks. The most urgent: render-blocking requests. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
75C- #71,980 of 108,957 reviewed websitesbeats 30%
- #45,814 of 61,775 online storesbeats 22%
- #43,335 of 56,370 Shopify storesbeats 19%
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2026 | 838 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 920 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 904 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 1.1 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.2 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 1.0 s |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 1.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2026 | 80 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 81 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 78 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 82 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Nov 7, 2026 | 90 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
Speed
Render-blocking requests
2.3 s45 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.3 s.
5,084 HTML elements
The page has 5,084 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.
Improve image delivery
650 ms · 2.0 MB52 images could be 2.0 MB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 650 ms faster on a phone.
Mobile performance score: 64
64/100Your mobile performance score is 64. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Reduce unused CSS
150 ms · 35 KiBAbout 35 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Legacy JavaScript
150 ms · 5 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 5 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.
Font display
150 msWeb fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 150 ms).
2 long tasks on the main thread
2 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 142 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
3 third-party services on the page
3 third-party services load with your homepage (Shopify, Google Fonts and placeholder.com), adding 94 KiB and 21 ms of main-thread time.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
Forced reflow
Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
1 KiB1 file is served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (1 KiB).
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.8 s
A phone's processor spends 1.8 s on main-thread work while loading, 422 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 8 ms
8 msYour server sent the HTML in 8 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Largest Contentful Paint: 24.4 s
24.4 sYour largest element takes 24.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “…”.
Time to Interactive: 26.2 s
26.2 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 26.2 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Speed Index: 6.6 s
6.6 sVisually, the page fills in at 6.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.
66 images without width and height
66 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.
First Contentful Paint: 2.9 s
2.9 sThe first text or image appears after 2.9 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
+9%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 80 ms to 90 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Largest content (LCP) got 16% slower for real visitors
+16%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-11-07, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.8 s to 1.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
8 checks passed
Passes Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)).
Real-user LCP: 1.1 s
1.1 sReal visitors wait 1.1 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Real-user INP: 96 ms
96 msReal visitors wait 96 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Real-user FCP: 1.0 s
1.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 1.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 505 ms
505 msReal visitors wait 505 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Total Blocking Time: 66 ms
66 msScripts block the page for only 66 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.032
0.032The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0.032, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
Page weight: 9.1 MB in 315 requests
9.1 MBYour homepage downloads 9.1 MB in 315 requests on a phone: images 7.4 MB (98), other files 905 KiB (129) and fonts 320 KiB (10). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.
15 images in older formats
15 images (2.6 MB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.
11 images below the first screen load straight away
11 images further down the page (1.3 MB) download before anyone scrolls to them. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.
4 images far larger than shown
155 KiB4 images are downloaded at several times the size a phone draws them, for example Toyota-Vellfire-2.4-Turbo-Z-Premier-Twin-Sunroof-Black-MPV-2 at 1,024 px wide, shown at 290 px. Resized copies would save about 155 KiB.
About 2.6 g of CO₂ per visit
2.57 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.57 g of CO₂e: 308.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
Accessibility
17 buttons without a name
17 buttons have no accessible name, so screen readers announce just “button”.
Unlabelled dropdowns
4 dropdowns have no label.
11 text elements with low contrast
11 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
1 image without alt text
1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.
All page content should be contained by landmarks (111 elements)
All page content should be contained by landmarks: 111 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
135 links without text
135 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.
No main landmark
The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.
Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)
Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.
8 form fields without a label
8 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element (15 elements)
ARIA role should be appropriate for the element: 15 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored (14 elements)
Elements marked as presentational should be consistently ignored: 14 elements on the page fail this check, rated minor by axe-core.
Headings skip levels
Headings skip levels (h3 → h5, h2 → h5 and h2 → h5), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.
1 checks passed
43 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 53 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 43 passed and 10 failed. 3 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No H1 headline
There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.
217 links crawlers can't follow
217 links have no real href, so search engines can't follow them.
Title is long (137 characters)
Your title is 137 characters, so Google will cut it off around 60: “Malaysia Best Recond Car Importer -Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Lexus – CarGuru - Malays…”.
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
Meta description is long (320 characters)
Your meta description is 320 characters; Google truncates after about 160, so the end of your pitch is cut.
No social preview image
No Open Graph image, so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.
No favicon declared
No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.
470 internal links, 3 external
The homepage links to 470 pages on carguru.my and 3 external pages.
3 checks passed
Canonical URL set
The canonical URL is https://www.carguru.my/.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.carguru.my/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
3 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (5,213 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
llms.txt published
The site publishes https://www.carguru.my/llms.txt (5 KiB, 8 links), a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
Other pages
1 linked page is broken
Your homepage links to https://www.carguru.my/pages/wishlist, which answers with an error. Visitors hit a dead end and search engines drop it.
5 pages without an H1
https://www.carguru.my/collections/recond-car, https://www.carguru.my/collections/popular-recond-car, https://www.carguru.my/collections/exotic-recond-car, https://www.carguru.my/collections/super-car-recond-car and https://www.carguru.my/collections/hyper-car-recond-car have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 196 found) and read each the way a search engine does.
5 checks passed
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 14 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 14 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
1 broken image
1 image failed to load on a phone, for example https://www.carguru.my/.
2 JavaScript errors while loading
2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Cannot read properties of null (reading 'setAttribute') https://www.carguru.my/:7799:32”.
2 checks passed
Tap targets are thumb-sized
24 of 24 tappable elements near the top are at least 24 px.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
Phone number is not tap-to-call
Your phone number appears as text but isn't a tel: link, so phone visitors can't tap to call.
About 2,204 words of copy
The homepage carries about 2,204 words of visible text.
Urgency cues
The page uses urgency cues (a countdown or limited-time wording).
4 checks passed
5 calls to action
The homepage has 5 calls to action, for example “Subscribe” and “Contact Us”.
4 short forms
4 short forms (1 field at most) are right on the homepage, asking for an email.
Social proof on the page
Social proof on the homepage: 70 testimonial or review blocks and 2 customer or partner logos.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
5 cookies set on arrival
5Opening the homepage sets 5 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).
No consent tool detected
No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.
5 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
1 checks passed
No known trackers before consent
No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at carguru.my, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Apps on your store
No apps were seen in the code your storefront loads.
Apps found in the homepage's code. Apps that only run in checkout or the admin aren't seen, and a headless storefront shows none. App data from programmable.info
Upkeep, stack and company
- The footer still says © 2025.
Stack
- Framework
- jQuery
- E-commerce
- Shopify
- Hosting
- Shopify
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 38 issues on carguru.my, including 9 speed issues, 7 SEO issues and 2 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
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- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
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- Earned media and PR openings
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- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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